{"id":363510,"date":"2010-02-25T18:16:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=94536"},"modified":"2010-02-25T18:16:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:16:31","slug":"johnny-weir-on-homophobic-broadcasters-controversy-%e2%80%9cwhy-can%e2%80%99t-we-all-just-get-along%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/363510","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Weir On Homophobic Broadcasters Controversy: \u201cWhy Can\u2019t We All Just Get Along?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir &#8212; known for his flamboyance and eye-popping costumes on the ice &#8212; held a press conference on Wednesday to address the recent controversy surrounding offensive public jibes a pair of Canadian <del datetime=\"2010-02-25T22:59:20+00:00\">assholes<\/del> broadcasters made about his sexuality on the air.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a6-MAmhGKsU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a6-MAmhGKsU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-94536\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not somebody to cry over something or to be weak about something. I felt very defiant when I saw these comments,\u201d<\/em> Weir said referring to homophobic comments made by two Canadian commentators, one of which suggested Weir should undergo a gender test.<em> \u201cIt wasn\u2019t these two men criticizing my skating\u2026 it was them criticizing me as a person, and that was something that really, frankly, pissed me off,&#8221; <\/em> Weir continued.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI hope more kids can grow up the same way I did and more kids can feel the freedom that I feel to be themselves and to express themselves and that\u2019s the most important thing&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Way to tell &#8216;em, Johnny!<\/p>\n<p>Weir placed sixth in men\u2019s figure skating at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. <\/p>\n<p>After yesterday&#8217;s press conference, the skater hit his <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnnygweir\">Twitter<\/a> to remind his fans and followers to adopt an attitude of tolerance: <em>\u201cWhy can\u2019t we all just get along? Seriously? Love everyone like they deserve to be loved. Goodnight lovers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/HhxjZKTqEN8vIAuPCbQlQrHXWlo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/HhxjZKTqEN8vIAuPCbQlQrHXWlo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/HhxjZKTqEN8vIAuPCbQlQrHXWlo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/HhxjZKTqEN8vIAuPCbQlQrHXWlo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir &#8212; known for his flamboyance and eye-popping costumes on the ice &#8212; held a press conference on Wednesday to address the recent controversy surrounding offensive public jibes a pair of Canadian assholes broadcasters made about his sexuality on the air. \u201cI\u2019m not somebody to cry over something or to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}