{"id":16540,"date":"2018-09-27T18:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16540"},"modified":"2018-09-27T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:22:33","slug":"the-homophobic-legacy-of-the-british-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16540","title":{"rendered":"The homophobic legacy of the British Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A wave of joy and relief swept through India&#8217;s LGBT community last week following a landmark decision by the country&#8217;s Supreme Court to legalize consensual gay sex.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The announcement that Section 377, a British colonial-era law prohibiting &#8220;unnatural acts,&#8221; would be annulled was met with jubilation by rights activists, many of whom had campaigned for years to end the archaic legislation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But while India&#8217;s LGBT population embraces its new found freedoms, millions across the globe continue to wait in hope. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A wave of joy and relief swept through India&#8217;s LGBT community last week following a landmark decision by the country&#8217;s Supreme Court to legalize consensual gay sex.The announcement that Section 377, a British colonial-era law prohibiting &#8220;unnatural acts,&#8221; would be annulled was met with jubilation by rights activists, many of whom had campaigned for years&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}