{"id":224244,"date":"2026-05-06T23:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224244"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:54:27","slug":"malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224244","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s LGBTQ crackdowns aren\u2019t hypocrisy, they\u2019re politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s recent enforcements and cancellations linked to LGBTQ-related activities have ignited debate about whether the government is backsliding on reform. Rather than reading these moves purely as contradicting past administrations\u2019 policies, these government actions may be better understood as an attempt to balance two political imperatives&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/opinion\/article\/3347361\/malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s recent enforcements and cancellations linked to LGBTQ-related activities have ignited debate about whether the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224244-malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}