{"id":715,"date":"2009-09-01T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=715"},"modified":"2009-09-01T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T19:11:00","slug":"the-outer-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"The Outer Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=center>\n<table bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/outeralliance.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/01\/outer-alliance-pride-day-posts-begin\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/outeralliance.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/oalpridebannerdc.png?w=459&amp;h=78\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>As a member of the Outer Alliance, I advocate for queer speculative fiction and those who create, publish and support it, whatever their sexual orientation and gender identity.  I make sure this is reflected in my actions and my work.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>So, I just joined today (and <em>immediately<\/em> gmail went t.u.! \ud83d\ude42 ), being a queer-identified, label-juggling pan-sexual alt-gendered person with a very long history of concern and activism for queer issues. The vampires in <a href=\"http:\/\/inannaarthen.com\/fiction.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Vampires of New England series<\/a> are all pan-sexual&#8211;it&#8217;s part of their nature. In my forthcoming novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/inannaarthen.com\/vone-tltf.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Longer the Fall,<\/em><\/a> several human characters are bisexual and a major supporting character is a lesbian. I write about complex characters whose sexuality is just one part of who they are, and I don&#8217;t tend to write fiction in order to make a point. But I would find it a challenge to write a militant hetero or flaming homophobe sympathetically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the Outer Alliance, I advocate for queer speculative fiction and those who create, publish and support it, whatever their sexual orientation and gender identity. I make sure this is reflected in my actions and my work. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}