{"id":1411,"date":"2015-10-26T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2015-10-26T05:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:00:05","slug":"rocky-horror-remake-missing-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/10\/26\/rocky-horror-remake-missing-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Horror Remake Missing Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there is some overlap between transsexual and transgender, transvestites are a completely different thing entirely.\u00a0 To refer to a transgender as a transvestite or drag queen is not only demeaning, but completely incorrect.\u00a0 And yet, <strong>Laverne Cox<\/strong>, that trailblazer for transgender folks everywhere, is taking on a role where she&#8217;ll blur those lines.\u00a0 She&#8217;s just been cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in <em>FOX<\/em>&#8216;s remake of <strong><em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The trades tout this as perfect casting &#8211; for America&#8217;s premier trans person to sing, &#8220;I&#8217;m a sweet transvestite, from Transsexual, Transylvania&#8221;.\u00a0 But the role was written for a biological man in female lingerie.\u00a0 What is shocking is that it&#8217;s a guy &#8220;making a man, with blond hair and a tan&#8221; &#8211; to say nothing of him having sex with both Janet and Brad.\u00a0 For this role to be played by a woman &#8211; even a transgender woman &#8211; is ridiculous, to say nothing of insulting to all the brave transgender people who have worked so hard to let everyone know they are not simply drag queens.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval <\/em>will pay tribute to the 40th anniversary of <strong><em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 And due to his landmark performance playing a transvestite, <strong>Tim Curry<\/strong>, the original Dr. Frank-N-Furter, will be honored.\u00a0 At 8:40PM, Curry will be named West Hollywood&#8217;s Honorary Mayor.\u00a0 There will also be a special concert by <strong>Boy George <\/strong>&#8211; who, again, is simply a man who occasionally wore dresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there is some overlap between transsexual and transgender, transvestites are a completely different thing entirely.\u00a0 To refer to a transgender as a transvestite or drag queen is not only demeaning, but completely incorrect.\u00a0 And yet, Laverne Cox, that trailblazer for transgender folks everywhere, is taking on a role where she&#8217;ll blur those lines.\u00a0 She&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}