{"id":4212,"date":"2018-08-27T00:55:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2018-08-27T00:55:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:55:33","slug":"wigstocks-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/08\/27\/wigstocks-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigstock&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Neil Patrick Harris <\/strong>is dipping his toes back into the transgender world.&nbsp; He will once again be performing as <strong><em>Hedwig <\/em><\/strong>(star of the eponymous <strong><em>Hedwig and the Angry Inch<\/em><\/strong>) as part of the revival of <strong><em>Wigstock<\/em><\/strong>, the all-day drag event in NYC.&nbsp; This will be the first full-length <em>Wigstock <\/em>since 2001, and it\u2019s all thanks to a special dream team.&nbsp; Executive producers of the event are <strong>Lady Bunny<\/strong>, NPH and hubby <strong>David Burtka<\/strong>, <strong>Bruce Cohen<\/strong>, <strong>Jason Weinberg<\/strong>, and <em>Pride Media<\/em>.&nbsp; <em>The Gay Men\u2019s Health Crisis <\/em>is the festival\u2019s nonprofit partner.&nbsp; The event takes place on September 1<sup>st<\/sup> on the <em>Rooftop at Pier 17 <\/em>in NYC.&nbsp; The lineup sounds like a cavalcade of drag, from <strong>Lypsinka <\/strong>and <strong>Peppermint<\/strong>, to <strong>Alex Newell<\/strong>, <strong>Justin Vivian Bond<\/strong>, <strong>Varla Jean Merman<\/strong>, and <strong>Joey Arias<\/strong>, to <strong>Amanda Lepore<\/strong>, <strong>Jackie Beat<\/strong>, <strong>Heklina<\/strong>, <strong>Bianca Del Rio<\/strong>, <strong>Willam<\/strong>, <strong>Candis Cayne<\/strong>, and more.&nbsp; You can get more info at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Out.com\/Wigstock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Out.com\/Wigstock<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Patrick Harris is dipping his toes back into the transgender world.&nbsp; He will once again be performing as Hedwig (star of the eponymous Hedwig and the Angry Inch) as part of the revival of Wigstock, the all-day drag event in NYC.&nbsp; This will be the first full-length Wigstock since 2001, and it\u2019s all thanks<\/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-4212","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\/4212","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=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions\/4213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}