{"id":15938,"date":"2014-08-23T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/miss-spain-becomes-first-openly-lesbian-national\/"},"modified":"2014-08-23T09:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T09:02:32","slug":"miss-spain-becomes-first-openly-lesbian-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/miss-spain-becomes-first-openly-lesbian-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Spain Becomes First Openly Lesbian National Beauty Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Miss Spain has revealed she is in a lesbian relationship, becoming the first openly gay national beauty queen.<\/p>\n

Patricia Yurena, who has won her country’s title twice in 2008 and 2013, posted a picture of herself and her girlfriend Vansea Cortes on Instagram, alongside the caption “Romeo and Juliet”.<\/p>\n

The photo, which shows the couple lying on a bed and looking into one another’s eyes, prompted widespread congratulations, and support for her decision to come out publicly.}}<\/p>\n

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She later posted a message saying: “Thanks to everyone for their comments.<\/p>\n

“I published quite naturally and impulsively. I appreciate the outpouring of support and even more to rejoice in my happiness. Thank you!!”<\/p>\n

Miss Yurena, 24, from Tenerife, finished runner up in 2013’s Miss Universe competition, while her girlfriend Miss Cortes is a singer and DJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{{Miss Spain has revealed she is in a lesbian relationship, becoming the first openly gay national beauty queen. Patricia Yurena, who has won her country’s title twice in 2008 and 2013, posted a picture of herself and her girlfriend Vansea Cortes on Instagram, alongside the caption “Romeo and Juliet”. The photo, which shows the couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000053604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[101],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-15938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-internationl","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000053604,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15938.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15938.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15938.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15938.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15938.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15938.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000053604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}