{"id":59141,"date":"2021-06-13T23:41:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T06:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=59141"},"modified":"2021-06-13T23:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T06:41:23","slug":"archuleta-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/06\/13\/archuleta-comes-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Archuleta Comes Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the same day, someone else made a statement.&nbsp; When <strong>David Archuleta <\/strong>was on <strong><em>American Idol<\/em><\/strong>, MANY gay men eagerly questioned his sexuality.&nbsp; I was not amongst those people.&nbsp; Archuleta was 17 years old at the time and \u2013 well, my feeling about sexualizing youngsters is well documented.&nbsp; I also knew from several sources that he came from a devoutly religious family \u2013 and had a very domineering father.&nbsp; A couple of years later, I reported about David going to a NYC gay bar \u2013 ostensibly to see singer <strong>Charice<\/strong>.&nbsp; He <em>Tweeted<\/em>, \u201cWasn\u2019t my kind of place\u201d, adding \u201cI have friends who are gay, and they\u2019re great people.\u201d&nbsp; Now he\u2019s all grown up and shared the following on Instagram: \u201cI came out in 2014 as gay to my family.\u201d&nbsp; Then he thought he might be bisexual, since he was attracted to both genders.&nbsp; Now he kinda considers himself asexual.&nbsp; \u201cI don\u2019t have too much sexual desires and urges as most people, which works I guess because I have a commitment to save myself until marriage.\u201d&nbsp; However he chooses to define himself, we congratulate him on his authenticity and wish him well on his journey.&nbsp; As to waiting till marriage\u2026well, see <strong>Colton Underwood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the same day, someone else made a statement.&nbsp; When David Archuleta was on American Idol, MANY gay men eagerly questioned his sexuality.&nbsp; I was not amongst those people.&nbsp; Archuleta was 17 years old at the time and \u2013 well, my feeling about sexualizing youngsters is well documented.&nbsp; I also knew from several sources that<\/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-59141","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\/59141","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=59141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59142,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59141\/revisions\/59142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}