{"id":117828,"date":"2024-06-05T18:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T18:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/05\/sam-smith-celebrates-pride-month-by-announcing-the-pink-house-charitable-foundation\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T18:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T18:05:25","slug":"sam-smith-celebrates-pride-month-by-announcing-the-pink-house-charitable-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/05\/sam-smith-celebrates-pride-month-by-announcing-the-pink-house-charitable-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Smith celebrates Pride Month by announcing The Pink House charitable foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-05\/Getty_SamSmith_060524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sam Smith<\/strong> is celebrating Pride Month by trying to make the world a better place for their community.<\/p>\n<p>They announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7wnBxwNZEN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>on Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, &#8220;I couldn\u2019t be happier to announce the creation of something very special and close to my heart. Myself and my team are in the process of building a charitable foundation to provide support for people within the LGBTQIA+ community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be called The Pink House, named after the house that I grew up in; my childhood home,&#8221; they continued. &#8220;I want it to be a useful resource for all queer people, to work towards helping secure a happy home for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The doors to The Pink House will be opening soon, and everyone is welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of May, Sam marked the 10th anniversary of his Grammy-winning debut album,\u00a0<em>In the Lonely Hour.<\/em> They wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7beE8DtpkB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, &#8220;10 years of In The Lonely Hour. Where it all began. Thank you all for holding these songs and stories so close to your heart through the years. I can\u2019t wait to celebrate this music and time with you. Oh so soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They were likely referring to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalalberthall.com\/tickets\/proms\/bbc-proms-24\/prom-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>upcoming show<\/strong><\/a> at London&#8217;s Royal Albert Hall on Aug. 2, during which they&#8217;ll perform songs from the record accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images Sam Smith is celebrating Pride Month by trying to make the world a better place for their community. They announced on Instagram, &#8220;I couldn\u2019t be happier to announce the creation of something very special and close to my heart. Myself and my team are in the process<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/05\/sam-smith-celebrates-pride-month-by-announcing-the-pink-house-charitable-foundation\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}