{"id":3470,"date":"2018-01-16T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2018-01-16T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:10:08","slug":"lgbtqia-entertainment-roundup-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3470","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Entertainment Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n

NBC’s New Drama Is Rewriting Its Gay Main Character as a Straight Man<\/a><\/p>\n

Rise<\/em>, based on the book Drama High<\/em>, written by Michael Sokolove, was actually based on the true story of Lou Volpe.? Volpe was married to a woman until he came out.? Rise<\/em> will rewrite the main character as straight.<\/p>\n

Gay film classic My Beautiful Laundrette to be adapted into US TV show<\/a><\/p>\n

The show will reportedly star straight Big Sick<\/em> actor Kumail Nanjiani.? The 1980s gay cult classic is a love story about a British-Pakistani man and his a romantic relationship with a street punk.<\/p>\n

Jussie Smollett releases music video filled with queer love<\/a><\/p>\n

The Empire<\/em> actor, photographer, and HIV activist, who came out on the Ellen DeGeneres show, has released the single Freedom<\/em>.? Watch the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Thomas Maxheimer NBC’s New Drama Is Rewriting Its Gay Main Character as a Straight Man Rise, based on the book Drama High, written by Michael Sokolove, was actually based on the true story of Lou Volpe.? Volpe was married to a woman until he came out.? Rise will rewrite the main character as straight. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","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\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}