{"id":2470,"date":"2021-07-06T11:56:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2470"},"modified":"2021-07-06T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:56:22","slug":"dr-eric-cervini","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/dr-eric-cervini\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Eric Cervini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Eric Cervini is an award-winning historian of LGBTQ+ politics and culture. His first book on queer history, <em>The Deviant&#8217;s War<\/em>, was a <em>New York Times <\/em>Bestseller, an Editors\u2019 Choice, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history. It won the Publishing Triangle\u2019s Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction and was voted the \u201cBest Read of 2020\u201d at the Queerties. As an authority on 1960s gay activism, Cervini serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus, and on the Board of Advisors of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of gay American history. His award-winning digital exhibitions have been featured in Harvard\u2019s Rudenstine Gallery, and he has presented his research to audiences across America and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2471,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-2470","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Historian and Author of LGBTQIA+ Politics and Culture","speaker_last_name":"Cervini","speaker_classification":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2470\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}