{"id":590,"date":"2014-09-05T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=590"},"modified":"2014-09-05T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T23:27:12","slug":"stories-of-our-lives-kenyan-film-tells-stories-of-lgbt-people-in-world-premiere-tonight-at-the-toronto-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/stories-of-our-lives-kenyan-film-tells-stories-of-lgbt-people-in-world-premiere-tonight-at-the-toronto-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStories Of Our Lives,\u201d Kenyan film tells stories of LGBT people in world premiere tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kenyan film tells stories of LGBT lives<\/strong><br \/>\nby Christopher Vourlias &#8211; THE SCRUTINEER &#8211; September 5, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A man arranges a sexual liaison with another man and sits in a hotel room, waiting for a knock on the door. Teenage girlfriends face an awkward reunion after being pulled apart by school officials. A woman and her female partner dream up an escape plan as angry mobs threaten to evict gays from their homes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;These and other real-life stories, drawn from a collaborative project to document the lives of members of Kenya\u2019s LGBT community, were the inspiration for \u201cStories Of Our Lives,\u201d a collection of five fictional vignettes that will have its world premiere tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the article here:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/blogs\/scrutineer\/2014\/9\/5\/kenyan-film-tellsstoriesoflgbtlives.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/blogs\/scrutineer\/2014\/9\/5\/kenyan-film-tellsstoriesoflgbtlives.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan film tells stories of LGBT lives by Christopher Vourlias &#8211; THE SCRUTINEER &#8211; September 5, 2014 &#8220;A man arranges a sexual liaison with another man and sits in a hotel room, waiting for a knock on the door. Teenage girlfriends face an awkward reunion after being pulled apart by school officials. A woman and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-news","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}