{"id":245916,"date":"2004-10-13T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/resort-lifts-ban-on-same-sex-couples"},"modified":"2004-10-13T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T15:39:21","slug":"resort-lifts-ban-on-same-sex-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/resort-lifts-ban-on-same-sex-couples","title":{"rendered":"Resort Lifts Ban On Same Sex Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading holiday company that turned away gay couples from its resorts announced yesterday that it is lifting the ban on same sex couples.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSandals, which specialises in Caribbean holidays for American and European travellers and has a resort in Nassau, changed its policy following commercial pressure throughout the world and pressure from gay activists.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn a press release issued world-wide yesterday Sandals Resorts International, which has 13 all-inclusive couples only resorts throughout the Caribbean, said it was removing the word &#8220;heterosexual&#8221; from its ad campaigns.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Tiffany Grant, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandals changed its policy following commercial pressure throughout the world and pressure from gay activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}