{"id":24119,"date":"2013-03-26T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=24119"},"modified":"2013-03-26T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:25:53","slug":"stewart-to-receive-pflag-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/03\/stewart-to-receive-pflag-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart To Receive PFLAG Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/StewartPicard0321121.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24122\" title=\"StewartPicard032112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/StewartPicard0321121.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Patrick Stewart<\/strong> has been chosen to receive an award from PFLAG National, a national organization for families, friends, and straight allies of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>Other honorees will include NFL players <strong>Brendon Ayanbadejo <\/strong>and<strong> Chris Kluwe<\/strong>, author <strong>John Irving<\/strong>, and the Whirlpool Corporation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Stewart will be receiving the Straight for Equality in Entertainment Award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From breaking through the &#8216;don\u2019t play gay&#8217; barrier with roles in <em>Jeffrey, Frasier<\/em> and now his upcoming film <em>Match<\/em> to his unwavering support for putting an end to violence against women, Sir Patrick Stewart is an ideal honoree,&#8221; said PFLAG National Executive Director <strong>Jody M. Huckaby<\/strong>. &#8220;His roles in both <em>X-Men<\/em> and <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>\u2014two franchises which have touched on themes such as the damage done by discrimination and the hurt inflicted by exclusion\u2014have sent uncompromising messages to viewers, particularly GLBT youth, who have found themselves feeling hopeless and without allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am delighted and honored to receive this PFLAG Straight for Equality in Entertainment Award,&#8221; said Stewart. &#8220;From my earliest years as an actor I have always been proud of the support the creative community gives to all forms of human and civil rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fifth Annual Straight for Equality Awards Gala will be held on Thursday, April 4th in New York City at the Marriott Marquis Times Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Patrick Stewart has been chosen to receive an award from PFLAG National, a national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2484,5483,2440],"class_list":["post-24119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-award","tag-pflag","tag-stewart"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24125,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions\/24125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}