{"id":3371,"date":"2017-11-13T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2017-11-13T09:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T14:55:56","slug":"lgbtqia-entertainment-roundup-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3371","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Entertainment Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LGBTQIA-Entertainment-Roundup-111317-768x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LGBTQIA-Entertainment-Roundup-111317-768x709.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LGBTQIA-Entertainment-Roundup-111317-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LGBTQIA-Entertainment-Roundup-111317-450x415.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LGBTQIA-Entertainment-Roundup-111317-850x784.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LGBTQIA-Entertainment-Roundup-111317-542x500.jpg 542w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LGBTQIA-Entertainment-Roundup-111317.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-television-lgbt\/lgbt-characters-on-u-s-tv-at-record-highs-idUSKBN1D91Z2\">LGBT characters on U.S. TV at record highs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the midst of the assault on LGBTQ rights from the current presidential administration, representation of LGBTQ lives in TV is at record highs.? However, as <em>The Advocate<\/em> points out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/television\/2017\/11\/09\/lgbt-visibility-all-time-high-tv-favors-white-cisgender-men\">representation skews toward white cisgender men<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/11\/jake-shears-kinky-boots\/\">Scissor Sisters Frontman Jake Shears Joining ?Kinky Boots? on Broadway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you plan to be in NYC January 8<sup>th<\/sup> through April 1<sup>st<\/sup>, you might what to check it out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/11\/straightwashing\/\">Sony Pictures UK Called Out on Twitter for Straightwashing Gay Romance ?Call Me By Your Name?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While promoting the LGBTQ-themed romance, Sony Pictures UK marked the film as a straight one.? They later deleted the Tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer LGBT characters on U.S. TV at record highs In the midst of the assault on LGBTQ rights from the current presidential administration, representation of LGBTQ lives in TV is at record highs.? However, as The Advocate points out, representation skews toward white cisgender men. Scissor Sisters Frontman Jake Shears Joining ?Kinky Boots? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}