{"id":37709,"date":"2014-11-10T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=37709"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:09:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:09:31","slug":"takei-advocacy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/11\/takei-advocacy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei Advocacy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37712\" alt=\"TakeiVanguardAward111014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/TakeiVanguardAward111014.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Takei<\/strong> and his husband<strong> Brad<\/strong> were the recipient of a <em>Vanguard Award<\/em> last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The award was given out at the <em>45th Anniversary Gala Vanguard Awards<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The <em>Vanguard Awards<\/em>, presented by the Los Angeles LGBT Center, honors &#8220;some of the incredible people who have made a real difference in the lives of LGBT people in Los Angeles and all over the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Takei and Brad received the <em>International Vanguard Award<\/em>. Married for six years, the pair are &#8220;fierce champions for the LGBT community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started in the business back in the &#8217;50s when LGBT people did not exist on television or in movies,&#8221; said Takei. &#8220;Compare that to what we have today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other Award winners included <em>Marvel<\/em> (<em>Corporate Vanguard Award<\/em>) and Los Angeles County Supervisor<strong> Zev Yaroslavsky<\/strong> (<em>Rand Schrader Distinguished Achievement Award<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Takei and his husband Brad were the recipient of a Vanguard Award last weekend&#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":[2484,2415,8009],"class_list":["post-37709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-award","tag-takei","tag-vanguard-award"],"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":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37709","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=37709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37715,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37709\/revisions\/37715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}