{"id":13739,"date":"2011-08-01T23:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T03:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13739"},"modified":"2011-08-01T23:29:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T03:29:55","slug":"british-taxpayers-funding-homotopia-art-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/british-taxpayers-funding-homotopia-art-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"British taxpayers funding Homotopia Art Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having led a sheltered life, I had never heard of \u201cHomotopia\u201d and assumed it was a new process for sterilising milk. But, no.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2011\/08\/01\/liverpools-homotopia-art-festival-wins-three-year-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liverpool\u2019s Homotopia art festival has been granted funding for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>The annual art and culture event will receive \u00a370,000 a year for the next three years from Arts Council England.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Judging by a sampling of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homotopia.net\/?page_id=18\">last year\u2019s \u201cart\u201d<\/a>, it all sounds like a bit of harmless fun the average taxpayer would be only too delighted to pay for:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13740\" title=\"peaches_christ\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/peaches_christ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Midnight Mass Peaches Christ presents All About Evil<\/p>\n<p>A San Francisco phenomenon, the underground hit that is Midnight Mass makes its UK debut starring horror hostess Peaches Christ in this Rocky Horror-style celebration of bad, trash and cult movie making. The infamous pre-show includes free lap dances with every large popcorn from a retinue of dude girls, a roller girl conga line, audience makeovers and unspeakable live participation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having led a sheltered life, I had never heard of \u201cHomotopia\u201d and assumed it was a new process for sterilising milk. But, no. From here: Liverpool\u2019s Homotopia art festival has been granted funding for the next three years. The annual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/british-taxpayers-funding-homotopia-art-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[867],"class_list":["post-13739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-homotopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}