{"id":56931,"date":"2023-07-25T03:18:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2023\/jul\/24\/the-1975-frontmans-outbursts-over-lgbtq-laws-angers-malaysias-conservatives"},"modified":"2023-07-25T03:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T18:18:10","slug":"malaysias-gay-community-fears-backlash-after-matty-healys-outburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56931","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s gay community fears backlash after Matty Healy\u2019s outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1975 singer\u2019s onstage condemnation of homophobic laws has angered conservatives and left some LGBTQ+ people uneasy<\/p>\n<p>The 1975 frontman Matty Healy\u2019s recent appearance at a festival in Kuala Lumpur \u2013 where he criticised Malaysia\u2019s homophobic laws and kissed a male bandmate on stage \u2013 has strongly angered conservatives in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the LGBTQ+ community have also expressed unease over his actions, fearing that the episode risks further exacerbating the hostilities they face.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2023\/jul\/24\/the-1975-frontmans-outbursts-over-lgbtq-laws-angers-malaysias-conservatives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1975 singer\u2019s onstage condemnation of homophobic laws has angered conservatives and left some LGBTQ+ people uneasyThe 1975 frontman Matty Healy\u2019s recent appearance at a festival in Kuala Lumpur \u2013 where he criticised Malaysia\u2019s homophobic laws and k&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,71,678,2729,70,425,2954,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-festivals","category-lgbtq-rights","category-malaysia","category-music","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\/56931","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56932,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56931\/revisions\/56932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}