{"id":91517,"date":"2023-06-11T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91517"},"modified":"2023-06-11T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:21:32","slug":"pride-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/06\/11\/pride-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I rise to commemorate the start of Pride Month by honoring
\nthe one and only queen of drag, RuPaul<\/strong>.  RuPaul Charles <\/strong>has
\nbecome an American phenomenon and an icon.  Nobody has
\nmore charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.”<\/em><\/span>  
\n\u2013 <\/em>Congressman Robert Garcia <\/strong>on the floor of the House of Representatives<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It may be Pride Month<\/em><\/strong>, but I\u2019m in an undisclosed country where being gay can get you stoned\u2026with real stones!  Happily, within the confines of my bucolic, clothing-optional resort, I\u2019m surrounded by Bel Ami<\/em>-type studs who barely speak a lick of English \u2013 but have no problem licking anything else.  It\u2019s important to remember that there are real heroes out there doing the hard work, while I\u2019m getting real hard and letting others do the work.<\/p>\n

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California state senator Scott Wiener <\/strong>invited my friend Sister Roma <\/strong>to the state legislature in Sacramento to kick off Pride Month<\/em>.  Roma is one of the most visible members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 the chalky-faced drag and trans nuns who have been providing service and humor since 1979.  When Roma approached the podium, many Republican senators beat a path to the door.  \u201cIf they really took the time to get to know her, they\u2019d understand why I nominated her for this honor,\u201d said Senator Wiener.  Roma was overcome and said, \u201cI came this close to crying, and if this makeup runs, I\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Sisters were also formally invited by the Los Angeles Dodgers <\/em>for Pride Night<\/em><\/strong>, which takes place on June 16th<\/sup>.  Days later, they were disinvited due to pressure from the right.  Gay Night was bad enough, but drag nuns were pushing things too far.  A few more days passed, and the invitation was reinstated.  Former Vice President Mike Pence <\/strong>was beside himself.  \u201cHaving been raised in a Catholic family, the Dodgers<\/em>\u2019 decision to invite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence<\/em>, a hateful group that blatantly mocks Catholicism, to their event next month is deeply offensive.\u201d  I always find it interesting when a straight man is obsessed with conversion therapy and drag queens, while calling his wife \u201cmother\u201d.  It\u2019s all so Anthony Perkins<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Someone else who wasn\u2019t happy was Marco Rubio<\/strong>.  His disappointment was somewhat abated by news that the Dodgers <\/em>will once again host Christian Faith Night <\/em>on July 30th<\/sup>.  Now, I find THAT deeply offensive.  But I ain\u2019t protesting.  Because, frankly, if we\u2019re able to have Pride Night<\/em>, then the Christians should be able to have their night.  I do wonder if it\u2019s too late to book some lions to greet them in the stadium\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I rise to commemorate the start of Pride Month by honoring the one and only queen of drag, RuPaul.  RuPaul Charles has become an American phenomenon and an icon.  Nobody has more charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.”   \u2013 Congressman Robert Garcia on the floor of the House of Representatives. It may be Pride Month, but<\/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-91517","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\/91517","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=91517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91527,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91517\/revisions\/91527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}