{"id":5070,"date":"2019-06-10T04:18:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2019-06-10T04:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:18:05","slug":"straight-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/straight-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, in the midst of&nbsp;<em>Gay Pride Month<\/em>, and what\u2019s our first story about?&nbsp; A&nbsp;<em>Straight Pride Parade<\/em>\u2026in my native Boston.&nbsp; Oh, the shame.&nbsp; Don\u2019t they already have a&nbsp;<em>Straight Pride Parade&nbsp;<\/em>in Boston?&nbsp; The&nbsp;<em>Saint Patrick\u2019s Day Parade<\/em>!!!&nbsp; Oops, they\u2019ve let the gays into that one, too.&nbsp; In the broadest sense, I don\u2019t have a problem with the idea of&nbsp;<em>Straight Pride<\/em>.&nbsp; I enjoy both straight and gay men \u2013 as long as they enjoy me.&nbsp; But the way this is being couched \u2013 as if straight people are an \u201coppressed majority\u201d (their words) \u2013 makes me feel it borders on homophobic.&nbsp; Unless, of course, members of the LGBT community are welcomed to join in, just like our straight allies are invited and encouraged to join in our Pride parades.&nbsp; If not, it\u2019s beginning to smell a lot like Charlottesville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, in the midst of&nbsp;Gay Pride Month, and what\u2019s our first story about?&nbsp; A&nbsp;Straight Pride Parade\u2026in my native Boston.&nbsp; Oh, the shame.&nbsp; Don\u2019t they already have a&nbsp;Straight Pride Parade&nbsp;in Boston?&nbsp; The&nbsp;Saint Patrick\u2019s Day Parade!!!&nbsp; Oops, they\u2019ve let the gays into that one, too.&nbsp; In the broadest sense, I don\u2019t have a problem with<\/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-5070","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\/5070","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=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}