{"id":871,"date":"2012-04-10T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T18:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2012-04-10T18:16:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T18:16:17","slug":"mr-gay-world-2012-won-by-german-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/04\/mr-gay-world-2012-won-by-german-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Gay World 2012 won by German man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stationery store manager representing New Zealand has won the title of Mr Gay World in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Derleth, 32, who works at Warehouse Stationery, last night won the annual contest for gay men standing up for gay and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Germany, Derleth moved to New Zealand four years ago on a working holiday visa and &#8220;fell in love&#8221; with the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, he told GayNZ.com that he was excited about the competition as he would meet new people standing up from the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT) community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes gay life is still stereotyped and having such an amazing event showing role models will add to the acceptance of GLBT people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mr Gay competition took place over four days and included various challenges, including a photo, sports, fashion, swim suit, public speaking, and local outreach challenges.<\/p>\n<p>On the contest&#8217;s website, it said the winner would not only have the inner beauty of confidence, self-assurance, charisma and natural leadership abilities, but would also take care of his physical beauty.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/6712925\/NZs-entrant-wins-Mr-Gay-World-title\">Read More <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/04\/MrGayWorld.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-872\" title=\"MrGayWorld\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/04\/MrGayWorld.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stationery store manager representing New Zealand has won the title of Mr Gay World in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Derleth, 32, who works at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}