{"id":41503,"date":"2022-02-09T00:33:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/08\/gay-kiss-live-tv-evade-singapore-ban-lgbt-content-channel-news-asia-beijing-bar"},"modified":"2022-02-09T00:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:33:56","slug":"gay-kiss-on-live-tv-evades-singapores-ban-on-lgbt-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41503","title":{"rendered":"Gay kiss on live TV evades Singapore\u2019s ban on LGBT content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video clip of two men kissing in Beijing bar during Channel News Asia report hailed as \u2018act of revolution\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It was a Singaporean news report on the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, live from a Beijing bar filled with eager fans. Yet it was two men \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@starrie7777\/video\/7061455338972695809?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1\">who burst into the view of the camera<\/a>, sharing a dramatic kiss \u2013 who stole the show.<\/p>\n<p>The clip has since gone viral in Singapore, where broadcasting codes restrict content that promotes LGBT \u201clifestyles\u201d, and where sexual relationships between men are outlawed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/08\/gay-kiss-live-tv-evade-singapore-ban-lgbt-content-channel-news-asia-beijing-bar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video clip of two men kissing in Beijing bar during Channel News Asia report hailed as \u2018act of revolution\u2019It was a Singaporean news report on the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, live from a Beijing bar filled with eager fans. Yet it was two men \u2013 who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,50,72,238,783,235,1496,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-lgbt-rights","category-media","category-singapore","category-social-media","category-tiktok","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41504,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503\/revisions\/41504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}