{"id":71546,"date":"2021-09-19T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=71546"},"modified":"2021-09-19T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:13:07","slug":"gays-at-the-emmys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/09\/19\/gays-at-the-emmys\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays at the Emmys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I\u2019m globetrotting, attending the <strong><em>Emmy Awards <\/em><\/strong>was an impossibility.&nbsp; And due to the difference in time zones, I can\u2019t even tell you what happened because I won\u2019t find out until after this column is published.&nbsp; Instead, let me tell you about the <strong><em>Creative Arts Emmys<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The <em>Emmys<\/em>\u2019 poor stepsister took place a week before the real event, and it was a gala affair \u2013 make that a GAYla affair.&nbsp; <strong>RuPaul <\/strong>won his sixth consecutive <em>Emmy <\/em>as host of a reality or competition show.&nbsp; He also made a bit of history \u2013 he\u2019s tied for the most <em>Emmy <\/em>wins by any person of color.&nbsp; Given that he may have won another award by the time you read this, he may be <em>Emmys<\/em>\u2019 most decorated person of color \u2013 and I can\u2019t think of a better candidate for that title.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of decorating, <strong><em>Queer Eye<\/em><\/strong> also came out on top at the <em>Emmys<\/em>.&nbsp; For the fourth year in a row, the show won <em>Outstanding Structured Reality Show<\/em>.&nbsp; But their biggest plaudit happened a few days later.&nbsp; <em>LEGO <\/em>announced they are immortalizing the show.&nbsp; On October 1<sup>st<\/sup>, <em>LEGO <\/em>will release <strong><em>Queer Eye &#8211; The Fab Five Loft<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; They even went out of their way to include <strong>Bruley<\/strong>, the quintet\u2019s dearly departed canine companion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I\u2019m globetrotting, attending the Emmy Awards was an impossibility.&nbsp; And due to the difference in time zones, I can\u2019t even tell you what happened because I won\u2019t find out until after this column is published.&nbsp; Instead, let me tell you about the Creative Arts Emmys.&nbsp; The Emmys\u2019 poor stepsister took place a week before<\/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-71546","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\/71546","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=71546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71547,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71546\/revisions\/71547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}