{"id":91444,"date":"2023-05-14T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T03:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91444"},"modified":"2023-05-14T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T04:09:13","slug":"lizzo-and-the-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/05\/14\/lizzo-and-the-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo and the Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t it a horrible double standard that I\u2019m now going to tell a story about <strong>Lizzo <\/strong>\u2013 who is roughly the size Adam was at <em>Sundance <\/em>\u2013 and I\u2019m gonna call her fabulous?&nbsp; But, you know, the mind is a terrible thing to misplace.&nbsp; Lizzo\u2019s a big girl with big ideas \u2013 and it stands to reason if she\u2019s gonna think outside the box, it\u2019s a pretty big box.&nbsp; Last month, she wanted to protest Tennessee\u2019s ordinance which prohibits adults from performing in drag.&nbsp; First she made a little speech. \u201cIn light of recent and tragic events and current events, I was told by people on the internet, \u2018Cancel your shows in Tennessee\u2019, and \u2018Don\u2019t go to Tennessee\u2019.&nbsp; Their reason was valid, but why would I not come to the people who need to hear this message the most?&nbsp; Why would I not create a safe space in Tennessee where we can celebrate drag entertainers and celebrate our differences?\u201d&nbsp; She then brought out 19 drag queens, including <strong>Aquaria<\/strong>, <strong>Asia O\u2019Hara<\/strong>, <strong>Kandy Muse<\/strong>, <strong>Vanessa Vanjie Mateo<\/strong>, and a host of other local girls.&nbsp; You go, Lizzo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t it a horrible double standard that I\u2019m now going to tell a story about Lizzo \u2013 who is roughly the size Adam was at Sundance \u2013 and I\u2019m gonna call her fabulous?&nbsp; But, you know, the mind is a terrible thing to misplace.&nbsp; Lizzo\u2019s a big girl with big ideas \u2013 and it stands<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91444","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\/91444","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=91444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91451,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91444\/revisions\/91451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}