{"id":91580,"date":"2023-07-02T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91580"},"modified":"2023-07-02T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T05:44:10","slug":"pride-google-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/07\/02\/pride-google-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Google Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pride Month ended with a thud in San Francisco.&nbsp; For years, <em>Google<\/em> has sponsored a series of LGBT events and this year, planned to close out Pride Month with a <em>Pride and Drag Show<\/em> at <strong><em>Beaux<\/em><\/strong>, a local bar.&nbsp; Then a coalition of Christian employees circulated a petition claiming it was offensive to their religion \u2013 because we all remember the passage where <strong>Jesus<\/strong> chastised the apostles for lip-synching for their lives!&nbsp; The group had a strong argument since headlining the event was drag legend <strong>Peaches Christ<\/strong> \u2013 whose appearance was called \u201ca direct affront to the religion beliefs and sensitivities of Christians\u201d.&nbsp; Alas, the team that planned the event neglected to go through the company\u2019s \u201cstandard events process\u201d \u2013 whatever that means.&nbsp; Google quickly distanced themselves from the show and planned a competing event in the office.&nbsp; However, many employees still went to the drag show \u2013 and \u201cBooed\u201d.&nbsp; After the fact, Peaches said, \u201cThis thing that happened with Google, unfortunately for this event, is actually indicative of a huge groundswell of hatred across the country using drag queens and trans people as scapegoats.\u201d&nbsp; Oh my!&nbsp; As if drag and trans weren\u2019t enough, now we\u2019re bringing in goats!?&nbsp; Well, it is San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pride Month ended with a thud in San Francisco.&nbsp; For years, Google has sponsored a series of LGBT events and this year, planned to close out Pride Month with a Pride and Drag Show at Beaux, a local bar.&nbsp; Then a coalition of Christian employees circulated a petition claiming it was offensive to their religion<\/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-91580","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\/91580","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=91580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91589,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91580\/revisions\/91589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}