{"id":3180,"date":"2017-09-25T00:17:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2017-09-25T00:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:17:39","slug":"city-bans-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/09\/25\/city-bans-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"City Bans Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by the following headline: &#8220;Town Tries To Legally Ban Drag Show&#8221;.&nbsp; And I thought, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it too soon for another remake of&nbsp;<strong><em>Footloose<\/em><\/strong>?&#8221;&nbsp; But wait &#8211; an all-drag version.&nbsp; Hmmm.&nbsp; We might have to change some of the words to &#8220;Let&#8217;s Hear It For The Boy&#8221;, but I&#8217;m in.&nbsp; The story is from Portland, Tennessee &#8211; the drag capital of the world &#8211; and the city council heard arguments for and against a proposed ordinance that would outlaw drag shows.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Ray Guillermo<\/strong>, the owner of the club putting on the shows, said, &#8220;I think a lack of knowledge is the problem here.&nbsp; There is no nudity.&nbsp; This is not adult entertainment&#8221;.&nbsp; Turns out, some people think drag shows include nudity or eroticism &#8211; clearly they don&#8217;t have basic cable!&nbsp; But some of the other residents made comments which indicate homophobia is driving this potential ban.&nbsp; One man said of drag queens, &#8220;If they&#8217;re on the side of the road with a flat tire, I&#8217;ll stop and help&#8230;but I don&#8217;t support this type of activity&#8221;.&nbsp; He just described the plot of&nbsp;<strong><em>To Wong Foo<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by the following headline: &#8220;Town Tries To Legally Ban Drag Show&#8221;.&nbsp; And I thought, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it too soon for another remake of&nbsp;Footloose?&#8221;&nbsp; But wait &#8211; an all-drag version.&nbsp; Hmmm.&nbsp; We might have to change some of the words to &#8220;Let&#8217;s Hear It For The Boy&#8221;, but I&#8217;m in.&nbsp; The story is from<\/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-3180","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\/3180","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=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}