{"id":5418,"date":"2019-10-14T03:43:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2019-10-14T03:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:43:45","slug":"equality-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/10\/14\/equality-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is no right or wrong way to be gay, to be queer, to be trans,
\nand I hope that our community, even as we struggle to define what our identity means,
\ndefines it in a way that lets everybody know that they belong among us.\u201d <\/em><\/span> 
\n\u2013 <\/em>Pete Buttigieg <\/strong>at the recent Equality<\/em><\/strong> Town Hall<\/em><\/strong> responding to
\ncries of \u201ctrans lives matter\u201d and \u201ctrans people are dying\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Have I gone insane?  Or has the world?  It\u2019s really a toss-up.  Perhaps we\u2019ll figure it out by the end of this column \u2013 which you can read in its entirety on BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.  First, let\u2019s look at CNN<\/em>\u2019s Equality<\/em> Town Hall<\/em>.  There weren\u2019t many surprises.  Thank God for good ol\u2019 reliable Joe<\/strong>.  First, Biden <\/strong>almost made a startling revelation by saying \u201cWhen I came out\u2026\u201d.  He quickly realized how that sounded, laughed, and put his arm around Anderson Cooper <\/strong>saying, \u201cI\u2019ve got something to tell you.\u201d  Cooper responded, \u201cI kinda figured it out a while ago.\u201d  Then, Biden rattled on and on: \u201cBack 15, 20 years ago in San Francisco was all about gay\u2026gay bath houses.  It\u2019s all about around-the-clock sex.  It\u2019s all\u2026come on, man.  Gay couples are more likely to stay together longer than heterosexual couples.\u201d  And if you think that\u2019s bad, you should have seen him in the swimsuit competition!<\/p>\n

Alright, I admit it.  I\u2019ve had my share of around-the-clock sex orgies in San Francisco 15, 20 years ago.  I\u2019ve also had them 15, 20 days ago.  But, I\u2019m a bad example \u2013 I\u2019ve had around-the-clock sex orgies at the Vatican<\/em>.  I hate to point this out to Joe, but bathhouses in San Francisco closed in 1984.  You\u2019d have thought the LGBTQ topic would be right up Pete Buttigieg<\/strong>\u2019s alley, so to speak.  But based on performance alone, all hail Queen Warren<\/strong>.  Her quip, while not phrased in a particularly presidential way, certainly seemed the right response during the Trump <\/strong>era.  Still, I really missed Bernie<\/strong>.  He could have told us about gay bars during Prohibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is no right or wrong way to be gay, to be queer, to be trans, and I hope that our community, even as we struggle to define what our identity means, defines it in a way that lets everybody know that they belong among us.\u201d   \u2013 Pete Buttigieg at the recent Equality Town Hall responding to cries of \u201ctrans<\/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-5418","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\/5418","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=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}