{"id":31991,"date":"2020-11-23T00:39:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=31991"},"modified":"2020-11-23T00:39:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:39:58","slug":"divas-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/11\/23\/divas-of-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Divas of December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnbh4os7bgI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A recent addition to our community explained one of the things that made it easy for her to come out.&nbsp; <strong>Nikki Blonsky <\/strong>said, \u201cThe LGBTQIA community has embraced me since the moment I got <strong><em>Hairspray<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; They welcomed me with open arms and I felt so a part of the community already.&nbsp; For me, it was a long time coming.&nbsp; I wanted to date women and it just was a moment in my life where I was finally just really ready to be myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after coming out, Nikki came on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> for a special show alongside the Link from the TV version of <em>Hairspray<\/em>, <strong>Garrett Clayton<\/strong>.&nbsp; We even surprised them with members of the original <em>Broadway <\/em>cast and national tour \u2013 because that\u2019s what we do on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; We\u2019ve taken a couple of weeks off for Thanksgiving, but we\u2019ll return with new shows on December 1<sup>st<\/sup> \u2013 <em>World AIDS Day<\/em>.&nbsp; In fact, we\u2019re closing out the year with <strong><em>Billy\u2019s 12 Divas of December<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Stay tuned for more details.&nbsp; In the meantime, head to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Billy Masters TV <\/em><\/strong><\/a>on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>YouTube<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp;or our website of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/TV\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com\/TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; All of our shows are there and, as one network used to say, \u201cIf you haven\u2019t seen it, it\u2019s new to you!\u201d&nbsp; By the way, our ratings have suddenly skyrocketed.&nbsp; We\u2019ve reached a new plateau \u2013 and you know how much I enjoy looking down from on high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent addition to our community explained one of the things that made it easy for her to come out.&nbsp; Nikki Blonsky said, \u201cThe LGBTQIA community has embraced me since the moment I got Hairspray.&nbsp; They welcomed me with open arms and I felt so a part of the community already.&nbsp; For me, it 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-31991","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\/31991","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=31991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31992,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31991\/revisions\/31992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}