{"id":5534,"date":"2019-11-11T05:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2019-11-11T05:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:20:16","slug":"dancing-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/11\/11\/dancing-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really can\u2019t stand it.  Sean Spicer <\/strong>\u2013 safe again!  I hope that by the time you read this, his tenure on Dancing with the Stars<\/em><\/strong> has come to an end.  Mind you, I am basing that not on politics, on his previous job, nor any feelings about him as a person.  I\u2019m basing it solely on the fact that he CAN\u2019T DANCE!  Alas, this is the downside of living in a free society.  You give people the right to vote, and have to pay the consequences.<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s version of the show, Strictly Come Dancing<\/em><\/strong>, made a bit of history by having the first same-sex routine.  While they\u2019ve previously featured mixed groups with some same-sex interaction, this was the first time that a routine was solely two men.  However, this dance was not part of the competition. It was two pros dancing while singer Emeli Sand\u00e9 <\/strong>sang \u201cShine\u201d.  The dancers were Johannes Radebe <\/strong>(who is openly gay) and Graziano Di Prima <\/strong>(who is not).  Reaction to the routine was largely positive.  Radebe said, \u201cI\u2019ve never felt so liberated.  For the first time in my life, I feel accepted for who I am.  That says so much about the people of this country.\u201d <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Danish version of Dancing with the Stars<\/em> (Vild med dans<\/em><\/strong>) has a same-sex couple competing.  When Jakob Fauerby<\/strong>, an openly gay actor, was cast, he was prepared.  \u201cI had already thought that if they called me, I would ask if it was possible to dance with a man.\u201d  Not only did he get a man \u2013 he got two-time mirror ball champion Silas Holst<\/strong>, who is also gay.  The pair topped the leaderboard four times in the past eight weeks.<\/p>\n

There have been same-sex dances on similar shows around the world.  In 2011, TV host Alfons Haider <\/strong>danced with a male professional in Austria\u2019s Dancing Stars<\/em><\/strong>.  The Israeli show Rokdim im Kokhavim<\/em><\/strong> featured female sportscaster Gili Shem Tov <\/strong>competing with a female pro.  And last year, Italy\u2019s Ballando con le Stelle<\/em><\/strong> included an openly gay fashion designer, Giovanni Ciacci<\/strong>, competing with a male professional.  They made it to the finals.<\/p>\n

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Drag star Courtney Act <\/strong>competed on Australia\u2019s version of Dancing with the Stars<\/em>.  She appeared in drag and had a male dance partner, which technically makes it a same-sex match-up.  She did well enough to come in second!  These strides around the globe have been noted by the domestic powers-that-be at DWTS<\/em>, and I hear they are considering using one of RuPaul<\/strong>\u2019s girls next season.  Is it just me, or does this have Shangela <\/strong>written all over it?<\/p>\n

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I really can\u2019t stand it.  Sean Spicer \u2013 safe again!  I hope that by the time you read this, his tenure on Dancing with the Stars has come to an end.  Mind you, I am basing that not on politics, on his previous job, nor any feelings about him as a person.  I\u2019m basing it<\/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-5534","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\/5534","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=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}