{"id":243,"date":"2007-07-17T20:47:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T01:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/07\/17\/ian-mckellen-urges-singapore-to-recognise-gay-rights\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T19:38:03","slug":"ian-mckellen-urges-singapore-to-recognise-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/07\/17\/243-ian-mckellen-urges-singapore-to-recognise-gay-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen urges Singapore to recognise gay rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontIM.jpg\" align=\"left\" class=\"no-lazyload\" \/> SINGAPORE (AFP) &#8211; British actor Ian McKellen on Tuesday urged tightly-governed Singapore to loosen up and repeal its archaic laws barring homosexual acts. The openly gay McKellen indicated the laws, which are remnants of British colonial rule, may affect a vibrant business city like Singapore, which is vying with other Asian cities to draw more foreign talent and professionals. McKellen was in Singapore as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company&#8217;s world tour to stage William Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;King Lear&#8221; and Anton Chekhov&#8217;s &#8220;The Seagull&#8221; at the Esplanade, Southeast Asia&#8217;s most modern performing arts centre. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070717\/en_afp\/entertainmentsingaporebritainmckellenlifestylegay_070717092948\" target=\"NEW\">More<\/a>]<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE (AFP) &#8211; British actor Ian McKellen on Tuesday urged tightly-governed Singapore to loosen up and repeal its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-3V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}