{"id":15038,"date":"2011-10-10T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=15038"},"modified":"2011-10-10T11:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T10:59:02","slug":"nearly-700000-attend-gay-pride-parade-in-rio-on-sunday-9-oct-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/10\/nearly-700000-attend-gay-pride-parade-in-rio-on-sunday-9-oct-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 700,000 Attend Gay Pride Parade in Rio on Sunday, 9 Oct 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Brazil say nearly 700,000 people have celebrated in a gay pride parade at Copacabana beach.<\/p>\n<p>Many participants waved rainbow flags and wore lavish Carnival costumes as loud music blasted from more than 15 sound trucks in Sunday&#8217;s [9 Oct 2011] festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Gay men, lesbians and cross-dressers danced and cheered to demands that Brazil enact more laws against homophobia in Latin America&#8217;s biggest nation.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers had hoped for nearly 1.5 million people at the 16th annual parade, but Rio de Janeiro police tell the newspaper the O Globo and other local media that about 700,000 were present.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/latinamerica\/articles\/2011\/10\/09\/nearly_700000_attend_gay_pride_parade_in_rio\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 boston.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Brazil say nearly 700,000 people have celebrated in a gay pride parade at Copacabana beach. Many participants waved rainbow flags and wore lavish Carnival costumes as loud music blasted from more than 15 sound trucks in Sunday&#8217;s [9 Oct 2011] festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexualities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}