{"id":4714,"date":"2019-02-11T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2019-02-11T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:06:07","slug":"kyle-xy-was-pressured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/02\/11\/kyle-xy-was-pressured\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle XY Was Pressured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matt Dallas&nbsp;<\/strong>claims he too was threatened \u2013 or, at the very least, pressured.&nbsp; He posted a video Q&amp;A with hubby,&nbsp;<strong>Blue Hamilton<\/strong>.&nbsp; The&nbsp;<strong><em>Kyle XY<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;star was asked if he was ever advised to keep his sexuality a secret.&nbsp; \u201cI was told to stay in the closet, not talk about my sexuality, to be on every red carpet with a girl on my arm because you could not be successful if you were openly gay in the entertainment industry, at least in front of the camera\u2026 Because of the advice that was given to me to stay in the closet, I became very disconnected from who I was, and there\u2019s a lot of residual stuff that to this day that I still deal with where I find myself sometimes being, \u2018oh, I sound too gay\u2019, or \u2018I\u2019m acting too gay\u2019 because it was so drilled into my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Dallas&nbsp;claims he too was threatened \u2013 or, at the very least, pressured.&nbsp; He posted a video Q&amp;A with hubby,&nbsp;Blue Hamilton.&nbsp; The&nbsp;Kyle XY&nbsp;star was asked if he was ever advised to keep his sexuality a secret.&nbsp; \u201cI was told to stay in the closet, not talk about my sexuality, to be on every red carpet<\/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-4714","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\/4714","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=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}