{"id":91020,"date":"2022-12-18T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91020"},"modified":"2022-12-18T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T07:05:14","slug":"homophobia-at-el-compadre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/12\/18\/homophobia-at-el-compadre\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophobia at El Compadre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in Los Angeles, there was quite a to-do about a gay actor kissing his date.&nbsp; Yes, let that sink in \u2013 Ian McKellen is not only playing a woman but also a goose, and two men kissing is verboten (as they say in Deutschland).&nbsp; That it happened to a somewhat notable person didn\u2019t help matters.&nbsp; The fantastic <strong>Drew Droege <\/strong>was on a dinner date at <em>El Compadre <\/em>\u2013 a venue which regularly hosts gay and drag performances in the basement!&nbsp; I\u2019ll let Drew tell you what happened next: \u201cFinishing up our second drinks, we had our arms around each other and kissed a few times.&nbsp; A manager approached our table and said something to the affect of \u2018you guys can\u2019t do that in here.\u2019&nbsp; We were confused at first, but then he very firmly stated, \u2018this is a family restaurant.\u2019\u201d&nbsp; When Drew protested, the manager asserted, \u201cI don\u2019t care if you\u2019re the President of the United States, we don\u2019t allow your behavior here.\u201d&nbsp; Drew and his beau promptly left and posted his account on social media.&nbsp; Within hours, the owner posted a response.&nbsp; \u201cWe want to sincerely apologize for the actions of our manager the night of December 12<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; This is not representative of our core values at <em>El Compadre<\/em>, and we wanted to let our customers know that the manager has been terminated.\u201d&nbsp; Happy holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in Los Angeles, there was quite a to-do about a gay actor kissing his date.&nbsp; Yes, let that sink in \u2013 Ian McKellen is not only playing a woman but also a goose, and two men kissing is verboten (as they say in Deutschland).&nbsp; That it happened to a somewhat notable person didn\u2019t help<\/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-91020","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\/91020","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=91020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91021,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91020\/revisions\/91021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}