{"id":34384,"date":"2013-09-14T19:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=34384"},"modified":"2013-09-14T19:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:30:16","slug":"cher-turns-down-olympics-gig-in-russia-over-anti-gay-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=34384","title":{"rendered":"Cher Turns Down Olympics Gig in Russia Over Anti-Gay Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-34382\" alt=\"cher\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cher.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cher.jpg 813w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cher-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a>After actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/wentworth_miller\/\">Wentworth Miller<\/a> declined an invitation to attend the St. Petersburg International Film Festival to protest Russia&#8217;s legal discrimination against gay people, iconic diva <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/cher\/\">Cher<\/a> become the latest celebrity to openly turn down a chance to fly to the Eurasian country over its anti-gay legislation. The 67-year-old singer revealed she had been asked to open the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi but she &#8220;immediately said no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to know why all of this gay hate just exploded over there,&#8221; said the &#8220;Woman&#8217;s World&#8221; singer to her friend who proposed the gig to her. &#8220;He said the Russian people don&#8217;t feel the way the government does.&#8221; But until the anti-gay law there is lifted, Cher, who is a known gay icon, an advocate for the LGBT community, and mother to transgender son, Chaz, won&#8217;t be going there anytime at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After actor Wentworth Miller declined an invitation to attend the St. Petersburg International Film Festival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}