{"id":54296,"date":"2023-04-13T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T01:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/13\/why-the-fight-for-marriage-equality-in-fiji-divides-lgbtq-activists"},"modified":"2023-04-13T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T01:19:48","slug":"why-the-fight-for-marriage-equality-in-fiji-divides-lgbtq-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54296","title":{"rendered":"Why the fight for marriage equality in Fiji divides LGBTQ+ activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage would bring concrete benefits such as family health insurance but some LGBTQ+ advocates say other issues are more important<\/p>\n<p>Kaushik never thought he would get married. That changed when he fell in love on a trip to New Zealand, but when he and his partner decided to tie the knot there was a problem.<\/p>\n<p>In Fiji, his home country, same-sex marriage is illegal. Even among LGBTQ+ activists the issue is contested, with some arguing that their time is better spent combating more general discrimination and violence against the community than campaigning for marriage equality.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/13\/why-the-fight-for-marriage-equality-in-fiji-divides-lgbtq-activists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage would bring concrete benefits such as family health insurance but some LGBTQ+ advocates say other issues are more importantKaushik never thought he would get married. That changed when he fell in love on a trip to New Zealand, but when he and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3694,"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":[41,436,2729,874,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-lgbtq-rights","category-pacific-islands","category-society"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296","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\/3694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54297,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296\/revisions\/54297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}