{"id":1680,"date":"2015-02-22T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2015-02-22T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:57:47","slug":"watch-straight-dads-with-gay-sons-read-gay-themed-picture-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1680","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Straight dads with gay sons read gay-themed picture book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s moment of heartwarming, straight fathers of gay Australian sons read the book?<em>I Think I&#8217;m a Poof?<\/em>by Samuel Leighton-Dore. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/watch-straight-dads-gay-sons-read-book-titled-i-think-im-poof200215\">Gay Star News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the video, Leighton-Dore&#8217;s father says of his son&#8217;s coming out: &#8216;It was so significant for him, but what&#8217;s remarkable is how insignificant an announcement it was for me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The book itself is a tongue-in-cheek story about a young boy coming out to his father and the unusually progressive advice his father gives in response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Traditionally fairytales typecast heroes and villains, so I mindfully followed that more conventional structure; making the bullies our villains, and the young gay man our hero,&#8217; the author said.<\/p>\n<p>Leighton-Dore is a self-proclaimed &#8216;poof on mission&#8217; but why did he use a word that many find offensive?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My choice of language wasn&#8217;t to provoke or polarize, but rather to deflate these everyday insults of their crushing power on children,&#8217; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/-1S0Rts-6xQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman In this week&#8217;s moment of heartwarming, straight fathers of gay Australian sons read the book?I Think I&#8217;m a Poof?by Samuel Leighton-Dore. Via Gay Star News: In the video, Leighton-Dore&#8217;s father says of his son&#8217;s coming out: &#8216;It was so significant for him, but what&#8217;s remarkable is how insignificant an announcement it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}