{"id":15079,"date":"2017-02-23T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2017\/02\/23\/gays-in-space\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:34","slug":"gays-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2017\/02\/23\/gays-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve released a (meandering, kinda pointless) <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/youve-got-to-watch-this-four-minute-prologue-to-alien-1792660941\">scene from <em>Alien: Covenant<\/em><\/a>. But there&#8217;s an incidentally gay couple in it &#8211; just two blokes, not spaceship interior decorators. Weird that this still feels like a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: One of the commenters on that page made a good point: This is supposed to be a <em>colonizing<\/em> spaceship. So, yeah, sending a gay couple to help populate a world doesn&#8217;t make sense. Maybe they have some sort of essential skills&#8230; like decorating. Oh, God.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve released a (meandering, kinda pointless) scene from Alien: Covenant. But there&#8217;s an incidentally gay couple in it &#8211; just two blokes, not spaceship interior decorators. Weird that this still feels like a breakthrough. EDIT: One of the commenters on that page made a good point: This is supposed to be a colonizing spaceship. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}