{"id":2721,"date":"2017-04-17T00:28:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T07:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2017-04-17T00:28:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T07:28:01","slug":"survivor-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/survivor-outing\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivor Outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of transsexuals, the big news of the week was Zeke Smith <\/strong>being outed as transsexual on Survivor<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The person who committed the outing was Jeff Varner<\/strong>, who is gay.\u00a0 As someone who has never watched an episode of Survivor<\/em>, I can’t believe I actually have something to add to this story.\u00a0 When Varner was on Survivor<\/em> the first time, he was not openly gay, but he had quite a strong gay following.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 You may not believe this, but 15 years ago, he was quite a looker.\u00a0 Back then, I wrote that although my sources told me he was gay, “don’t expect Jeff to come out or lead any Gay Pride parades.”\u00a0 Days later, Varner wrote me personally.\u00a0 He particularly liked that I called him “deliciously bitchy”.\u00a0 He also said, “I would absolutely lead a gay pride parade.\u00a0 A lot of my friends are gay and I think that would be a trip!!!”\u00a0 Of course, a few years later, he actually did come out – I’m not sure if he’s done a parade, yet.\u00a0 In those intervening years, we’ve stayed in casual contact, and I’ve always found him delightful.<\/p>\n

But, yes, he did out Zeke – and for someone who was on the other side of an outing situation, he really should have known the pitfalls.\u00a0 I may not watch Survivor<\/em>, but I get how the game is played.\u00a0 If you wanted to prove someone wasn’t being (dare I say) straight with their teammates, making this revelation would be quite a bombshell.\u00a0 Since the episode aired, Zeke has come out not only unscathed, but actually thriving with the support of the public and without the burden of a secret.\u00a0 Varner, on the other hand, has been vilified and has reportedly lost his real estate job.\u00a0 He’s explained his actions, apologized, and seems genuinely contrite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of transsexuals, the big news of the week was Zeke Smith being outed as transsexual on Survivor.\u00a0 The person who committed the outing was Jeff Varner, who is gay.\u00a0 As someone who has never watched an episode of Survivor, I can’t believe I actually have something to add to this story.\u00a0 When Varner was<\/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-2721","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\/2721","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=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}