{"id":9025,"date":"2020-06-15T00:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T07:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2020-06-15T00:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T07:25:47","slug":"la-pride50-with-billy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/la-pride50-with-billy\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Pride@50 with Billy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HsA9Lv0XpsI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we celebrated 50 years of <em>Pride <\/em>on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Since I co-hosted <strong><em>LA Pride <\/em><\/strong>for many years alongside drag legend <strong>Momma<\/strong>, it was fitting that she joined me as co-host of this special episode.&nbsp; Along with various people who worked behind the scenes, <strong>Pauley Perrette <\/strong>dropped in to discuss helping out year after year, as did the fabulous <strong>Willam<\/strong>.&nbsp; And our 2008 headliner, the legendary <strong>Olivia Newton-John<\/strong>, also showed up.&nbsp; I was glad to commemorate 50 years of <em>Pride <\/em>\u2013 even virtually.&nbsp; Another special episode was devoted to the late <strong>Joan Rivers<\/strong>.&nbsp; That one included many people who knew and worked with her, including <strong>Jackie Beat<\/strong>, <strong>Charles Busch<\/strong>, <strong>Dan Glosser<\/strong>, and the greatest of all Joan Rivers impersonators, <strong>Frank Marino<\/strong>.&nbsp; Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\/TV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com\/TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>YouTube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n0a5CwvPJcY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This coming week, we celebrate even more history.&nbsp; In 2015, <strong>Thomas Roberts <\/strong>became the first openly gay person to anchor a network evening newscast.&nbsp; He\u2019s had a fascinating career, so we\u2019re thrilled to have him join <strong>Steve Kmetko <\/strong>in a discussion of how the landscape of television has changed over the years.&nbsp; We will also welcome <strong>Levi Kreis<\/strong>, who performed at <em>LA Pride <\/em>in 2007 and won the <em>Tony Award <\/em>for <strong><em>Million Dollar Quartet<\/em><\/strong> in 2010.&nbsp; Be sure to tune into <em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em> \u2013 Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3PM Eastern, Noon Pacific on <em>YouTube<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff Last week, we celebrated 50 years of Pride on Billy Masters LIVE.&nbsp; Since I co-hosted LA Pride for many years alongside drag legend Momma, it was fitting that she joined me as co-host of this special episode.&nbsp; Along with various people who worked behind the scenes, Pauley Perrette dropped in to discuss helping out<\/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-9025","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\/9025","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=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9026,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions\/9026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}