{"id":36,"date":"2009-06-10T19:17:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/?p=36"},"modified":"2011-07-12T07:08:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T07:08:34","slug":"dark-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Dark Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gay club in Helsinki has closed it\u2019s dark room. According to my newspaper the authority that issues licour licenses had contacted the club after a newspaper story that featured the dark room. in the beginning of May. It seems that some civil servant has taken the stance that a dark room is against good manners and so has threatened the club with pulling it\u2019s licence.<\/p>\n<p>It is understandable hat a the owner of the club doesn\u2019t want to challenge the authority. Even if the decision would be overruled it might well be a pyrrhic victory as the club would be closed meanwhile. <\/p>\n<p>This is not just an isolated incident: previously a gay bar in Tampere also closed the dark room it had just opened because of the same authority. Even if I don\u2019t think a dark room were such a big deal this case shows there is legal loophole that allows an arbitrary decision and creates an opportunity for discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gay club in Helsinki has closed it\u2019s dark room. According to my newspaper the authority that issues licour licenses had contacted the club after a newspaper story that featured the dark room. in the beginning of May. It seems that some civil servant has taken the stance that a dark room is against good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}