{"id":90495,"date":"2022-06-28T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90495"},"modified":"2022-06-28T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:13:09","slug":"uk-celebrates-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/06\/28\/uk-celebrates-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Celebrates Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a <em>Pride Month <\/em>story I somehow missed.&nbsp; The UK had a special 50 pence coin minted to celebrate the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Pride (the first UK Pride march took place in London in 1972).&nbsp; Not only do they have a coin, they have a special collection of Pride stamps issued by the <em>Royal Mail<\/em>, which depicts members of the leather community, drag queens, and same-sex couples.&nbsp; If people only still wrote letters\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sexy singer <strong>Darren Hayes <\/strong>(formerly of <strong><em>Savage Garden<\/em><\/strong>) posted a Pride photo on Instagram which was banned.&nbsp; The photo in question featured Hayes fully dressed, lounging on his bed, with a naked man laying face down on his crotch.&nbsp; You know what they say \u2013 location, location, location.&nbsp; While somewhat risqu\u00e9, it should be noted no private parts were shown nor actions implied.&nbsp; And yet, <em>Instagram <\/em>felt he was \u201csoliciting sex\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a Pride Month story I somehow missed.&nbsp; The UK had a special 50 pence coin minted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pride (the first UK Pride march took place in London in 1972).&nbsp; Not only do they have a coin, they have a special collection of Pride stamps issued by the Royal Mail,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90504,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90495\/revisions\/90504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}