{"id":40,"date":"2004-11-10T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=40"},"modified":"2004-11-10T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T13:00:29","slug":"the-gay-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"The Gay Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the rest of us are arguing over <a href=\"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/archives\/2004\/11\/should_we_make.html\">secession<\/a>, you can&#8217;t really blame gay people for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20041110\/GAYDRAIN10\/TPNational\/?query=brain+drain\">leaving the U.S. in droves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our rights are slowly being eroded,&#8221; said the award-winning screenwriter [Craig Lucas], who plans to move to Vancouver with his partner, a set designer. &#8220;It happened in Nazi Germany, the incredible brain drain of artists, scientists and writers who fled to the U.S. Now it&#8217;s happening here [in the United States]. The government wants gays to live outside the protection of the law.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I currently have more than 100 applications in the works on behalf of prospective gay American immigrants,&#8221; [a Toronto immigration lawyer] said. &#8220;These are highly skilled people with no dependents and substantial savings. Canada is benefiting enormously.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the rest of us are arguing over secession, you can&#8217;t really blame gay people for leaving the U.S. in droves. &#8220;Our rights are slowly being eroded,&#8221; said the award-winning screenwriter [Craig Lucas], who plans to move to Vancouver with his partner, a set designer. &#8220;It happened in Nazi Germany, the incredible brain drain of artists, scientists and writers who fled to the U.S. Now it&#8217;s happening here [in the United States]. The government wants gays to live outside the protection of the law.&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;I currently have more than 100 applications in the works on behalf of prospective gay <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=40\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}