{"id":8578,"date":"2009-04-20T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2010-12-25T02:44:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T07:44:50","slug":"we-are-not-a-gay-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/20\/we-are-not-a-gay-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Are Not a Gay Bar!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>genderkid sent in a link to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-peoria-gay-bar-17apr17,0,7371226.story\"><em>Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/a> about a karaoke bar in Peoria, Illinois, called Elbo Room whose felt the need to post the following sign:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8579 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/46349991.jpg\" alt=\"46349991\" width=\"319\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/46349991.jpg 319w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/46349991-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the location used to be a gay bar, and the karaoke bar doesn&#8217;t want to be mistaken for it.<\/p>\n<p>This led to protests by members of the gay community and others opposed to homophobia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The group held three protests last weekend, one of which drew the attention of paintballers, who fired on the crowd. Police had no suspects in that attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since sexual orientation is a characteristic protected by state law, the bar owner was notified the sign is illegal, since it implies that gays and lesbians are unwelcome in the establishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>genderkid sent in a link to a story in the Chicago Tribune about a karaoke bar in Peoria, Illinois, called Elbo Room whose felt the need to post the following sign: Apparently the location used to be a gay bar, and the karaoke bar doesn&#8217;t want to be mistaken for it. This led to protests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[283,54],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31498,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/31498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}