{"id":621,"date":"2014-02-25T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=621"},"modified":"2014-02-25T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T16:25:04","slug":"amazon-pilot-focuses-on-transgender-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/621","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Pilot Focuses on Transgender Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">In response to the highly acclaimed and incredibly popular original programming from Netflix, Amazon has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/transgender\/2014\/02\/21\/how-amazons-latest-pilot-could-reshape-public-understanding-trans\">launched a series of pilots <\/a>through their Prime service that give viewers the chance to vote on which show they would like to see more of. If a show gets enough support, it gets green lighted for a full season to be produced. One of these pilots from director-producer Jill Soloway is <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Transparent. <\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The show follows Maura, a trans woman who is coming out later in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The show spends the majority of the pilot following Maura as she attempts to come out to her children. In a surprisingly nuanced fashion, the show promises to deftly deal with the issues that are common to many going through these experiences.<\/p>\n<p>In an entertainment industry that all too often portrays transgender individuals in a hurtful, misunderstood, or downright cruel way, this pilot (were it to be produced into a series) could be a meaningful landmark in the progress of the public\u2019s perception of transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>View a brief trailer for the show below:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dHpXcmiEIyM&#038;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the highly acclaimed and incredibly popular original programming from Netflix, Amazon has launched a series of pilots through their Prime service that give viewers the chance to vote on which show they would like to see more of. If a show gets enough support, it gets green lighted for a full season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","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\/621","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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}