{"id":75941,"date":"2021-11-01T00:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T07:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=75941"},"modified":"2021-11-01T00:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T07:58:03","slug":"trans-actor-sues-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/11\/01\/trans-actor-sues-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Actor Sues Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the stories we didn\u2019t get to on <em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em> was about <strong>Suni Reid<\/strong>.&nbsp; Suni is a trans actor who claims to have been discriminated against by the producers of the musical <strong><em>Hamilton<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Reid is a \u201cnon-binary performer\u201d and \u201copenly transgender\u201d \u2013 the details of which are unknown to <em>moi<\/em>.&nbsp; However, \u201cthey\u201d is a member of the touring company\u2019s ensemble, and has occasionally been cast in the roles of <strong>George Washington<\/strong>, <strong>James Madison <\/strong>and <strong>Aaron Burr<\/strong>.&nbsp; Most theatres have a limited backstage area, which means most performers share dressing rooms.&nbsp; And ensemble players are either in a large male or female dressing room.&nbsp; Apparently Suni was assigned to a male dressing room.&nbsp; Reid requested a gender-neutral dressing room \u2013 which, naturally, doesn\u2019t exist.&nbsp; The producers offered to partition off a section of the ensemble room with a curtain, which \u201cthey\u201d did not find acceptable.&nbsp; When Suni\u2019s contract was up, it was not renewed.&nbsp; Reid has filed a complaint with the <em>Equal Employment Opportunity<\/em> <em>Commission <\/em>and, I would guess, is having a devil of a time finding work.<\/p>\n<p>By the by, the <strong><em>Mr. Gay World <\/em><\/strong>competition has announced that anyone who identifies as male is allowed to compete.&nbsp; But they better not ask for their own dressing room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the stories we didn\u2019t get to on Billy Masters LIVE was about Suni Reid.&nbsp; Suni is a trans actor who claims to have been discriminated against by the producers of the musical Hamilton.&nbsp; Reid is a \u201cnon-binary performer\u201d and \u201copenly transgender\u201d \u2013 the details of which are unknown to moi.&nbsp; However, \u201cthey\u201d is<\/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-75941","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\/75941","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=75941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75944,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75941\/revisions\/75944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}