{"id":2255,"date":"2016-10-03T05:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2016-10-03T05:37:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:37:56","slug":"vote-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/vote-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"

You kids out there may not know this, but gays weren’t always on television.\u00a0 These days, every show eventually trots out a gay character – usually a persnickety type often portrayed by Wilson Cruz<\/strong>, Alec Mapa<\/strong>, Jai Rodriguez<\/strong>, or Rex Lee<\/strong>. \u00a0If I didn’t know them personally, I’d swear they were the same person.\u00a0 The roles they play are so alarmingly similar, surely one of these talented gents could handle them all – and still have time to occasionally fill in for Rachel Maddow<\/strong>!\u00a0 Anyway, my point is that in the long history of television, gays are a relatively new addition.<\/p>\n

And much of the credit for that visibility must go to Will & Grace<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This was really the first TV show with gay leading characters that was a hit.\u00a0 Sure, it wasn’t perfect.\u00a0 And some of the characters perpetuated some stereotypes. \u00a0But the show also reflected a number of issues that were going on in the real world.\u00a0 It also helped people who thought they never met a gay person be a whole less scared when they did.\u00a0 In fact, many straight women went out looking for a Will to help them be a better woman.\u00a0 Or for a Jack to help him be a better woman!\u00a0 It took so much of the mystery out of what it is gay people do – which is ultimately the same as straight people, but in better-appointed apartments and wearing nicer clothes.\u00a0 That mystery is now gone.<\/p>\n

So, who better to help inspire people to vote than Will and Grace and Jack and Karen (with a little help from Rosario).\u00a0 The cast reunited to film a mini-episode, and they slipped back into their roles seamlessly – with the exception of Mullally<\/strong>‘s now-red hair.\u00a0 While it is unlikely that the characters and the apartment would not have changed in the decade since the show went off the air, the episode picks up where the series left off – save for Jack opening the refrigerator and exclaiming, “Why does everything in there look 10 years old?” \u00a0Although it sounds like they are using a really horrible laugh track, that won’t keep me from posting the full video on BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 While the thrust of the episode appears to be pro-Hillary <\/strong>Clinton<\/strong>, it is actually called #VoteHoney.\u00a0 Debra Messing <\/strong>clarified that message in a Tweet<\/em>.\u00a0 “No\/ it was for #VoteHoney.\u00a0 [Jack] wasn’t going to vote.\u00a0 Karen was for Trump, W&G were for HRC.\u00a0 Msg was you HAVE to vote.\u00a0 Sitting out is not OK.”\u00a0 OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You kids out there may not know this, but gays weren’t always on television.\u00a0 These days, every show eventually trots out a gay character – usually a persnickety type often portrayed by Wilson Cruz, Alec Mapa, Jai Rodriguez, or Rex Lee. \u00a0If I didn’t know them personally, I’d swear they were the same person.\u00a0 The<\/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-2255","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\/2255","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=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}