{"id":106445,"date":"2016-09-13T09:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106445"},"modified":"2016-09-13T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:17:54","slug":"remembering-a-great-gay-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106445","title":{"rendered":"Remembering A Great Gay American"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I didn&#39;t know you were gay, too.<br \/>That&#39;s so brave.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TupacShakur?src=hash\">#TupacShakur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IqkIxLCyll\">https:\/\/t.co\/IqkIxLCyll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversToo\/status\/775743985088274432\">September 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tupac wasn&#39;t just Gay.<br \/>Tupac was Super Gay.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TupacShakur?src=hash\">#TupacShakur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7URDPmLpn2\">pic.twitter.com\/7URDPmLpn2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversToo\/status\/775744569291845632\">September 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tupac was a sensitive, artistic, gay black boy who dressed up in Butch Drag to get rich.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TupacShakur?src=hash\">#TupacShakur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uJ7ssqvm9n\">pic.twitter.com\/uJ7ssqvm9n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversToo\/status\/775741415397531649\">September 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twitter wants Black Twitter to tap <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TupacShakur?src=hash\">#TupacShakur<\/a> and see Black is Awesome, Tupac is God memes, not Tupac Was The Black Liberace memes.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversToo\/status\/775740906456485888\">September 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tupac was always rockin&#39; dat Thug Mammy look.<br \/>Tryin&#39; to butch up his natural femininity.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TupacShakur?src=hash\">#TupacShakur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TTY1nctbFn\">pic.twitter.com\/TTY1nctbFn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversToo\/status\/775739489553494016\">September 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tupac was one of America&#39;s Great Gay Heroes.<br \/>RIP, my Down Low Brother!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TupacShakur?src=hash\">#TupacShakur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YDpLs4Yv7L\">pic.twitter.com\/YDpLs4Yv7L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversToo\/status\/775738238728228868\">September 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tupac gave hope to every Gay Black Man in America.<br \/>You don&#39;t have to hide. Queer Pride!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TupacShakur?src=hash\">#TupacShakur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AfvBv9qXNP\">pic.twitter.com\/AfvBv9qXNP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversToo\/status\/775737820837126145\">September 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tupac, the Black Liberace, liked to mentor Young Black Boys.<br \/>He seemed to take a keen interest in them.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TupacShakur?src=hash\">#TupacShakur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Heem4RNsfK\">pic.twitter.com\/Heem4RNsfK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversToo\/status\/775745176631324672\">September 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#39;t know you were gay, too.That&#39;s so brave.#TupacShakur https:\/\/t.co\/IqkIxLCyll &mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) September 13, 2016 Tupac wasn&#39;t just Gay.Tupac was Super Gay.#TupacShakur pic.twitter.com\/7URDPmLpn2 &mdash; John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) September 13, 2016 Tupac was a sensitive, artistic, gay black boy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-homophobia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106447,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106445\/revisions\/106447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}