{"id":1142,"date":"2023-08-05T13:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/lgbt-history-the-men-who-risked-everything-for-love-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:42:05","slug":"lgbt-history-the-men-who-risked-everything-for-love-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/lgbt-history-the-men-who-risked-everything-for-love-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT history: The men who risked everything for love &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1iBuJ4hQ9FA?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 1930s London, a network of secret underground clubs broke the law to allow gay men to be their true selves, at a time when homosexuality was illegal.<\/p>\n<p>One such club was The Caravan, described as &#8216;London&#8217;s greatest bohemian rendezvous&#8217;. When it was eventually raided by the police in 1934, an incredible love letter was discovered that gives us a unique insight into queer culture at the time.<\/p>\n<p>A BBC Reel video in collaboration with The National Archives.<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1iBuJ4hQ9FA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1930s London, a network of secret underground clubs broke the law to allow gay men to be their true selves, at a time when homosexuality was illegal. One such club was The Caravan, described as &#8216;London&#8217;s greatest bohemian rendezvous&#8217;. When it was eventually raided by the police in 1934, an incredible love letter was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}