{"id":60891,"date":"2021-06-28T00:47:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T07:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=60891"},"modified":"2021-06-28T00:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T07:47:20","slug":"stars-perform-for-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/06\/28\/stars-perform-for-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars Perform For Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTonight is not just a party to kick off <em>Pride Weekend<\/em>.&nbsp; At 10p and Midnight in <em>Times Square<\/em> you can watch a special video made By ME!&nbsp; Don\u2019t miss it!&nbsp; Let\u2019s POP the cherry on Pride With a Bang\u201d \u2013 said the ever-eloquent <strong>Madonna<\/strong>.&nbsp; She also auctioned off three \u201cnew <em>Polaroids<\/em>\u201d \u2013 which I believe is an oxymoron \u2013 to benefit the <em>Ali<\/em> <em>Forney<\/em> <em>Center<\/em>, which helps homeless LGBTQ kids.&nbsp; To top it off, she showed up at the <strong><em>Boom Boom Room <\/em><\/strong>at <em>The Standard, High Line Hotel <\/em>and sang a few numbers while perched on a bar wearing a see-through top.&nbsp; It was all very <strong>Mamie Van Doren<\/strong>-esque, as you can see on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, a hybrid of <em>The Backstreet Boys <\/em>and <em>*NSYNC <\/em>raised $1 million for <em>The Trevor Project<\/em>.&nbsp; <strong>Lance Bass <\/strong>(who I presume spearheaded this philanthropic venture) and <strong>Joey Fatone <\/strong>joined <strong>Nick Carter <\/strong>and <strong>AJ McLean <\/strong>as the entertainment for <strong><em>Bingo Under the Stars<\/em><\/strong> at <em>The Grove <\/em>in Los Angeles.&nbsp; The fundraiser also celebrated <em>Gay Pride Month<\/em>.&nbsp; <strong><em>Back-Sync<\/em><\/strong>, as they called themselves, performed \u201cI Want It That Way\u201d and \u201cBye Bye Bye\u201d \u2013 complete with choreography.&nbsp; AJ also sang \u201cLove Song Love\u201d, his recent single.&nbsp; As with Madge, we\u2019ll post some footage on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTonight is not just a party to kick off Pride Weekend.&nbsp; At 10p and Midnight in Times Square you can watch a special video made By ME!&nbsp; Don\u2019t miss it!&nbsp; Let\u2019s POP the cherry on Pride With a Bang\u201d \u2013 said the ever-eloquent Madonna.&nbsp; She also auctioned off three \u201cnew Polaroids\u201d \u2013 which I believe<\/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-60891","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\/60891","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=60891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60892,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60891\/revisions\/60892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}