{"id":2745,"date":"2017-05-01T03:08:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2017-05-01T03:08:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:08:53","slug":"20-years-after-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/05\/01\/20-years-after-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years After Ellen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently the 20th anniversary of <strong>Ellen<\/strong>&#8216;s coming out &#8211; both as a person and as a character on her sitcom.\u00a0 As I watched the retrospectives, a thought came to me &#8211; why did <strong><em>Ellen<\/em><\/strong> come out?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t believe the character was conceived as gay.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t a storyline that was planned.\u00a0 Back then, I remember people saying, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s obvious Ellen Morgan is gay &#8211; look how she dresses.&#8221;\u00a0 Or, &#8220;<strong>Ellen DeGeneres <\/strong>can only play gay &#8211; did you see <strong><em>Mr. Wrong<\/em><\/strong>?&#8221;\u00a0 Aside from the many good things that came from DeGeneres&#8217; coming out, I wonder if part of that legacy is also perpetuating the stereotype that gay actors can only play gay roles.<\/p>\n<p>Not a single week can go by without someone claiming that Ellen and <strong>Portia <\/strong>are on the verge of breaking up.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been on that verge since the moment they met.\u00a0 I never paid attention to that &#8211; until I saw Ellen&#8217;s reunion show.\u00a0 At the end, Portia came out to give her a kiss.\u00a0 Never was a kiss so uncomfortable, so choreographed, and so unconvincing.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not saying, I&#8217;m just saying &#8211; keep an eye on them.\u00a0 And don&#8217;t be surprised by anything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently the 20th anniversary of Ellen&#8216;s coming out &#8211; both as a person and as a character on her sitcom.\u00a0 As I watched the retrospectives, a thought came to me &#8211; why did Ellen come out?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t believe the character was conceived as gay.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t a storyline that was planned.\u00a0 Back<\/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-2745","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\/2745","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=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}