{"id":718716,"date":"2026-07-30T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:08:08","slug":"drag-race-star-hopes-viewers-watch-new-lgbtq-doc-with-open-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718716\/","title":{"rendered":"Drag Race star hopes viewers watch new LGBTQ+ doc with open minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King said they had experienced worsening discriminatory comments about their gender identity and sexuality, and said giving LGBTQ+ voices a platform was &#8220;crucial&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s important, not just for like older generations to watch, I think the documentary in itself is so good for younger generations or queer people,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really easy when you see things in the news&#8230; to be discouraged and feel like there isn&#8217;t any hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s communities in every city that you go to, you just have to find them. And to be able to give all those people a voice in a documentary form is a way of bringing hope to those younger generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King said they had experienced worsening discriminatory comments about their gender identity and sexuality, and said giving LGBTQ+&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}