{"id":952,"date":"2014-05-28T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T15:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=952"},"modified":"2014-05-28T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T15:33:19","slug":"gay-prom-queen-fights-transphobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/952","title":{"rendered":"Gay Prom Queen Fights Transphobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasir Fleming is a gay male student at Danbury High School in Connecticut. This past week, he made the news for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/transgender\/2014\/05\/27\/watch-gay-male-prom-queen-fights-transphobia\">winning the title of &#8220;prom queen&#8221; at his school<\/a>. Fleming decide to run for prom queen as opposed to king to make a statement against transphobia in beauty and talent competitions. As Fleming said in the description of a Youtube video, &#8220;&#8221;As gay people, more or less, are becoming accepted in society, transgender people are still discriminated against severely. If I can win a title that is outside of my gender, there is no reason why a trans-person should have any problems winning titles in his or her gender. Stop the hate; start the love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Fleming win his prom queen crown in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gay Teen Crowned Prom Queen\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7e-TbFxCTE4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasir Fleming is a gay male student at Danbury High School in Connecticut. This past week, he made the news for winning the title of &#8220;prom queen&#8221; at his school. Fleming decide to run for prom queen as opposed to king to make a statement against transphobia in beauty and talent competitions. As Fleming said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}