{"id":1932,"date":"2004-04-01T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/04\/01\/1932.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:26","slug":"gordon-fox-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/04\/01\/gordon-fox-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Fox, proud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Same-Sex Marriage discussion continues to fascinate me. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/news\/content\/projo_20040401_gay1.1534cc.html\"> (regreq) story, which feels like an April Fools&#8217; story but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnto10.com\/politics\/2964283\/detail.html\">appears to be true<\/a>, shows a politician changing the speech on the fly from &#8220;making the case&#8221; for same-sex marriage to &#8220;making our case&#8221;. Yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.ri.us\/manual\/data\/queries\/leg_.idc?HTMID=H004\">Gordon Fox<\/a>, D-Providence and State House Majority Leader is gay, and surprised himself (and his partner of six years) by coming out at a rally of same-sex marriage supporters.\n<p>I hope his partner, whose name is not mentioned in the ProJo, is surprised in the flowers-and-chocolate way, and not in the clean-out-your-desk way.\n<p>By the way, the current Mayor of Providence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.providenceri.com\/government\/Mayor-Cicilline-Biography.html\"> David Cicilline<\/a> is also openly gay. That&#8217;s Providence, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provincetowngov.org\/\">Provincetown<\/a>.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Same-Sex Marriage discussion continues to fascinate me. This (regreq) story, which feels like an April Fools\u2019 story but appears to be true, shows a politician changing the speech on the fly from \u201cmaking the case\u201d for same-sex marriage to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16979,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/16979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}