{"id":1939,"date":"2015-06-07T16:56:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T21:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2015-06-07T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:48:58","slug":"new-animated-version-of-gay-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1939","title":{"rendered":"New Animated Version of Gay Fairy Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Errico&#8217;s digital children&#8217;s book, The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived, tells the story of Cedric, a pumpkin farmer-turned-knight who woos a prince in the course of his adventures. Now streaming media giant Hulu has turned the book into an animated short film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/popnography\/2015\/6\/03\/bravest-knight-fairytale-gay-twist-gets-animated\">Out reports:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cedric now shares streaming space with popular shows, such as Nickelodeon?s Sanjay and Craig and the classic Fraggle Rock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Giving Cedric a home alongside some of the most beloved and important characters in children&#8217;s media means a great deal for his message, and the future of characters like him,&#8221; Errico says.<\/p>\n<p>Though the film currently stands alone in its offering ? a LGBT, family friendly program ? but, perhaps, not for long.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hulu, there isn?t any specific plan to adapt Errico?s other stories or any other LGBT specific children?s programs, but it is open to doing more. &#8220;We would be delighted to explore the potential of acquiring more content that features positive, family friendly, LGBT messages,&#8221; Andrew Thomas, senior content acquisition manager of Hulu, tells Out.<\/p>\n<p>And if it did, Hulu could potentially carve out a space of content not readily available to LGBT families. But for now, at least we have this brave knight and his handsome prince.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/popnography\/2015\/6\/03\/bravest-knight-fairytale-gay-twist-gets-animated\">View the video at Out.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Ashley R. Lierman Daniel Errico&#8217;s digital children&#8217;s book, The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived, tells the story of Cedric, a pumpkin farmer-turned-knight who woos a prince in the course of his adventures. Now streaming media giant Hulu has turned the book into an animated short film, Out reports: Cedric now shares streaming space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[114,115,71],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-fairy-tale","tag-lgbt-character","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","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=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}