{"id":2742,"date":"2020-01-23T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T09:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2020-02-01T21:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T14:51:51","slug":"colors-rainbows-deputy-director-and-co-founder-of-proud-festival-launched-yangon-pride-2020-at-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/23\/colors-rainbows-deputy-director-and-co-founder-of-proud-festival-launched-yangon-pride-2020-at-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Colors Rainbow&#39;s Deputy Director and Co-Founder of &amp;Proud Festival launched Yangon Pride 2020 at Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/hEVtqj0FRCeNoHhCfeshWwGEwCt9R52cbkDm_AYJft30QpWNEssCSqPSogxMbewAwEbYLWc9d2ACktgsKCwMM_aTUoj1nNcOb1nO1DJeRS6ts8lsis3s3YGXc6DWiuHkr6SsoMGv\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the morning of 22 January, a press conference was held at the Goethe Institute on the ongoing &amp;PROUD festival and Yangon Pride taking place until 2 February.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/2fqkXwSPPy6m-x1HAMtLQLs8z4tNgMRl7iSEdrPIiIqFo9Boio_u9Aq5263tp7ccxjZ8zb1UZgMORviAtEi2Ug-GE26_4b_rh5h6E_vnp2dAJqJMIheC9SycrWss8vWPh6ma1XHh\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hla Myat Tun, Deputy Director of Colors Rainbow and Co-Founder of &amp;PROUD, along with Willem Van Rooij, Co-Founder of &amp;PROUD, and Nicki, a transgender woman activist, spoke to journalists about the 6th edition of &amp;PROUD Festival and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Yangon Pride. As a special guest, Miss Universe Myanmar, Swe Zin Htet, who got recently recognized internationally for coming out as lesbian, also spoke at the conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Willem provided detailed information about the ongoing &amp;PROUD festival and shared a public invitation to celebrate Pride together. Hla Myat shared that the campaign #LoveIsNotACrime calls for the decriminalization of same-sex relations and forlong awaited law reform for the legal protection of the LGBTIQ community in Myanmar. \u201cLove is not a crime, it is a blessing. The message of the campaign is to question why the simple act of love is criminalized\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/huq0UiQfJcGpqmsVrURui-noXKdi6oVD7NNzNOcHt2-5zL_nqVrVtwL9-mH7KwJo9H4_rjA65-P3O4QXRIT7zQglPq7ztysgbu46gE_Qm1KxGh81uSw2r4PEdjWhOFradKmze0Yc\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miss Universe Myanmar Swe Zin Htet expressed her gratitude for being awarded the annual Hero awards and reiterated her support in promoting the #LoveIsNotACrime campaign in the country: \u201cLove is not a crime because love is all that matters. Whether it is boys loving boys or girls loving girls. Or anyone else. Love is a peaceful act. All I want to say is that love is not a crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of 22 January, a press conference was held at the Goethe Institute on the ongoing &amp;PROUD festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[129,107],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-proud","tag-colors-rainbow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorsrainbow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}