{"id":56873,"date":"2023-07-22T19:51:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T10:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/22\/malaysia-festival-halted-matty-healy-1975-criticises-anti-lgbtq-laws"},"modified":"2023-07-23T05:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T20:02:58","slug":"malaysian-festival-halted-after-matty-healy-criticises-anti-lgbtq-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56873","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia bans The 1975 after Matty Healy defies anti-LGBTQ+ laws with stage kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer\u2019s protest kiss with bandmate and criticism of anti-homosexuality law leads to ban and festival cancellation<\/p>\n<p>A three-day music festival in Malaysia has been cut short after the lead singer of the 1975 criticised the country\u2019s anti-LGBTQ+ laws on stage.<\/p>\n<p>The British band, fronted by Matty Healy, were performing at the Good Vibes festival in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/22\/malaysia-festival-halted-matty-healy-1975-criticises-anti-lgbtq-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer\u2019s protest kiss with bandmate and criticism of anti-homosexuality law leads to ban and festival cancellationA three-day music festival in Malaysia has been cut short after the lead singer of the 1975 criticised the country\u2019s anti-LGBTQ+ laws on s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3858,"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":[41,71,678,2729,70,425,1049,2954,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-festivals","category-lgbtq-rights","category-malaysia","category-music","category-music-festivals","category-the-1975","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\/56873","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\/3858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56893,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56873\/revisions\/56893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}