{"id":161171,"date":"2025-08-19T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/uks-lgbtq-literary-prize-cancelled-after-controversy-over-gender-critical-author-john-boyne\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:49:09","slug":"uks-lgbtq-literary-prize-cancelled-after-controversy-over-gender-critical-author-john-boyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/uks-lgbtq-literary-prize-cancelled-after-controversy-over-gender-critical-author-john-boyne\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s LGBTQ+ literary prize cancelled after controversy over \u2018gender critical\u2019 author John Boyne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Polari Prize has been cancelled due to the longlist inclusion of a book by John Boyne. The situation escalated into a mass boycott and now, the organisation behind the LGBTQ+ literary award has pledged to undertake a full review of its policies. Here&#8217;s everything you need to know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/08\/19\/uks-lgbtq-literary-prize-cancelled-after-controversy-over-gender-critical-author-john-boyn\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Polari Prize has been cancelled due to the longlist inclusion of a book by John Boyne. The situation escalated into a mass boycott and now, the organisation behind the LGBTQ+ literary award has pledged to undertake a full review of its policies. Here&#8217;s everything you need to know. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":161172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}