{"id":24412,"date":"2016-09-29T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24412"},"modified":"2016-09-29T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:28:52","slug":"gay-space-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/gay-space-the-final-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay space, the final frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there is a need <em>\u201cfor the gay community to have a safe space in every corner of the universe.\u201d<\/em> To that end, a gay pride flag has been launched 31km. above the surface of the earth where the rising sun shone through it, illuminating the rainbow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24413\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flag-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"flag\" width=\"584\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flag-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flag-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flag-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flag-500x264.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flag.jpg 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If that doesn\u2019t bring a lump to the throat of every ACoC bishop, nothing will.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-37504749\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Gay pride flag launched into space &#8216;to spread peace&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Planting Peace, a US-based non-profit group that seeks to &#8220;spread peace in a hurting world&#8221;, launched the flag near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 17 August.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMGSQV3dcpA#action=share\" target=\"_blank\">captured video<\/a> with a GoPro camera as it floated 21.1 miles (34.1km) above earth for three hours.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers said they wanted to declare space gay friendly, &#8220;in a peaceful, beautiful way&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there is a need \u201cfor the gay community to have a safe space in every corner of the universe.\u201d To that end, a gay pride flag has been launched 31km. above the surface of the earth where the rising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/gay-space-the-final-frontier\/\">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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2395],"class_list":["post-24412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-gay-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412","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=24412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}