{"id":2210,"date":"2016-09-12T04:41:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2016-09-12T04:41:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:41:51","slug":"alexis-chablis-pass-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/alexis-chablis-pass-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis &#038; Chablis Pass Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before anything else, I want to acknowledge the passing of <strong>Alexis Arquette<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yes, we were both publicly critical of the other.\u00a0 But it must be said that Arquette was a trailblazer and one of the most vehemently outspoken advocates for gay rights and education about transgender issues.\u00a0 And yet, this passing shows how far we still have to go.\u00a0 While siblings <strong>Patricia<\/strong>, <strong>Rosanna<\/strong>, and <strong>David <\/strong>were vocal in mourning their sister Alexis, brother <strong>Richmond<\/strong> is mourning &#8220;our brother <strong>Robert<\/strong>, who became our brother Alexis, who became our sister Alexis, who became our brother Alexis.&#8221;\u00a0 Certainly this is new territory for the general public, but I&#8217;m not even sure who died!<\/p>\n<p>Also this week we remember <strong>Lady Chablis<\/strong>.\u00a0 I only met her a couple of times, but she made an indelible impression on me.\u00a0 While I only became aware of her after her landmark performance in <strong><em>Midnight<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> in the Garden of Good and Evil<\/em><\/strong>, it was with her autobiography that she made the biggest impression.\u00a0 While I don&#8217;t know if she invented the phrase &#8220;hiding my candy&#8221;, she certainly popularized it.\u00a0 Rest in peace, Lady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before anything else, I want to acknowledge the passing of Alexis Arquette.\u00a0 Yes, we were both publicly critical of the other.\u00a0 But it must be said that Arquette was a trailblazer and one of the most vehemently outspoken advocates for gay rights and education about transgender issues.\u00a0 And yet, this passing shows how far we<\/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-2210","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\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}