{"id":2172,"date":"2015-09-27T16:29:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2015-09-27T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T21:29:07","slug":"peru-gets-first-childrens-book-with-same-sex-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2172","title":{"rendered":"Peru gets first children&#8217;s book with same-sex parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first Peruvian children&#8217;s book to feature same-sex parents is set to be released this September. Published by Zoe&#8217;s Closet, the book <em>Camilla Has Two Moms??<\/em>was written by author and activist Veronica Ferrari. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/09\/20\/new-childrens-book-supports-invisible-same-sex-parents\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Author and activist Veronica Ferrari says her book ?seeks to make visible all these families of lesbian mothers and of gay fathers existing in Peru.?<\/p>\n<p>Same-sex relationships are not currently legally recognised in Peru, after the most recent attempt to pass the Civil Unions Bill was shelved in April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Adoption by same-sex couples is also not possible ? with lesbians banned from having IVF.<\/p>\n<p>The book shines a light on the lack of protection and recognition same-sex parents currently get in Peru, as the young protagonist becomes the subject of rumour and ridicule due to her family set up.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a happy ending for the family, as Camila?s mothers explain that ?love ties their family together?.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The first Peruvian children&#8217;s book to feature same-sex parents is set to be released this September. Published by Zoe&#8217;s Closet, the book Camilla Has Two Moms??was written by author and activist Veronica Ferrari. Via PinkNews: Author and activist Veronica Ferrari says her book ?seeks to make visible all these families of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[398,396,397,395],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-camilla-has-two-moms","tag-glbt-children-book","tag-peru","tag-veronica-ferrari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","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=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}