{"id":40934,"date":"2022-01-22T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/quiet-fabulosity-remote-new-zealand-church-gets-pink-makeover-to-celebrate-queer-community"},"modified":"2022-01-22T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:00:31","slug":"quiet-fabulosity-remote-new-zealand-church-gets-pink-makeover-to-celebrate-queer-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40934","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Quiet fabulosity\u2019: remote New Zealand church gets pink makeover to celebrate queer community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Duckor-Jones has transformed an unused church into what he hopes will be a place for rural queerness to thrive<\/p>\n<p> On the wild and remote west coast of New Zealand\u2019s South Island, an old dame is getting a hot-pink makeover, with all the synthetic flowers, coloured beads and glitter she can take. Her name is Gloria, and she is an 83-year-old church, on her way to becoming a public sculpture and \u201cqueer beacon\u201d for the local community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t grow up in the church, I grew up in a Jewish household, but mostly I grew up making things, and in recent years I\u2019ve become more and more excited about queer celebration,\u201d says poet and artist Sam Duckor-Jones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/quiet-fabulosity-remote-new-zealand-church-gets-pink-makeover-to-celebrate-queer-community\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Duckor-Jones has transformed an unused church into what he hopes will be a place for rural queerness to thrive On the wild and remote west coast of New Zealand\u2019s South Island, an old dame is getting a hot-pink makeover, with all the synthetic flowe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,72,56,75,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbt-rights","category-new-zealand","category-sexuality","category-society"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40935,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40934\/revisions\/40935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}