{"id":5186,"date":"2019-07-21T16:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T23:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2019-07-21T16:03:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T23:03:25","slug":"emmy-loves-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/07\/21\/emmy-loves-gays\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Loves Gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Emmy&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>nominations were just announced, and the heterophobic&nbsp;<em>Netflix&nbsp;<\/em>nabbed a record 117 nominations \u2013 well, a record for them.&nbsp; What I found fascinating is that several trade publications took great pains to point out that the lobby of the&nbsp;<em>Television<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Academy<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><em>Wolf Theatre&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>is now called the \u201c<em>Netflix Lobby<\/em>\u201d.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure they\u2019re not implying anything unsavory \u2013 probably just singling out a curious decoration, much like I\u2019d identify a lovely sconce (something I\u2019ve never done).&nbsp; By the way, perennial&nbsp;<em>Emmy&nbsp;<\/em>leader&nbsp;<em>HBO&nbsp;<\/em>once again led the pack with 137 nods.<\/p>\n<p>There was quite a bit of queer love at the&nbsp;<em>Emmys<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;snagged 14 nominations, which is not only a record for the show, but also the most nominations ever for any show on&nbsp;<em>VH1<\/em>.&nbsp; I wouldn\u2019t be&nbsp;<strong>Billy Masters&nbsp;<\/strong>if I didn\u2019t point out that series was initially developed for&nbsp;<em>Logo<\/em>, the all-but-defunct gay network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Billy Porter<\/strong>\u2019s nomination as&nbsp;<em>Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series&nbsp;<\/em>for&nbsp;<strong><em>Pose<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;was also historic.&nbsp; Apparently this is the first time that an openly gay black man was nominated in this category \u2013 a narrow distinction, but a distinction nonetheless.&nbsp; As they say, it\u2019s an honor just to be nominated.&nbsp; But here\u2019s something that could be a good omen \u2013 the&nbsp;<em>Emmys&nbsp;<\/em>take place on September 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, and Mr. Porter turns 50 the day before.&nbsp; I can guess what his wish will be as he blows out that candle, or whatever he\u2019s blowing on&nbsp;<em>All Emmys Eve<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy&nbsp;nominations were just announced, and the heterophobic&nbsp;Netflix&nbsp;nabbed a record 117 nominations \u2013 well, a record for them.&nbsp; What I found fascinating is that several trade publications took great pains to point out that the lobby of the&nbsp;Television&nbsp;Academy\u2019s&nbsp;Wolf Theatre&nbsp;is now called the \u201cNetflix Lobby\u201d.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure they\u2019re not implying anything unsavory \u2013 probably just singling out<\/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-5186","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\/5186","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=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}