{"id":3133,"date":"2026-01-17T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/heated-rivalry-fans-in-russia-are-breaking-antigay-laws-to-stream-the-show\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:40:12","slug":"heated-rivalry-fans-in-russia-are-breaking-antigay-laws-to-stream-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/heated-rivalry-fans-in-russia-are-breaking-antigay-laws-to-stream-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heated Rivalry&#8217; fans in Russia are breaking antigay laws to stream the show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sm.mashable.com\/t\/mashable_me\/article\/h\/heated-riv\/heated-rivalry-fans-in-russia-are-breaking-antigay-laws-to-s_drfe.640.jpg\">Nothing can seemingly stop the devotion to Shane and Ilya, even Russia&#x27;s anti-LGBTQ laws. <\/p>\n<p>There is not much that can stop a dedicated fandom. <\/p>\n<p>Not paywalls, not cancellations, and certainly not even the source of their fan fervor itself, as was the case in several <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/digital-culture\/62383\/dan-and-phil-turned-a-16-year-relationship-reveal-into-a-lesson-on-parasocial-boundaries\">high profile instances<\/a> of extreme <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/sex-dating-relationships\/21216\/what-are-parasocial-relationships\">parasocial behavior<\/a>. And as <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/entertainment\/64517\/why-is-the-sex-in-heated-rivalry-so-hot\">queer hockey romance <\/a><i><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/entertainment\/64517\/why-is-the-sex-in-heated-rivalry-so-hot\">Heated Rivalry<\/a><\/i> has \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing can seemingly stop the devotion to Shane and Ilya, even Russia&#x27;s anti-LGBTQ laws.<br \/>\nThere is not much that can stop a dedicated fandom. Not paywalls, not cancellations, and certainly not ev<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}