{"id":92708,"date":"2024-06-09T23:21:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T06:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92708"},"modified":"2024-06-09T23:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T06:21:01","slug":"oprah-and-adele-are-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/06\/09\/oprah-and-adele-are-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah and Adele are Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we leave California, <strong>Oprah Winfrey <\/strong>posted a Pride Month message.&nbsp; \u201cIt was 35 years ago that my younger brother, <strong>Jeffrey Lee<\/strong>, died from AIDS.&nbsp; He was 29 years old.&nbsp; The year was 1989 and the world was an extremely cruel place \u2013 not just for people suffering from AIDS, but also for LGBTQ people in general.&nbsp; I often think if he\u2019d lived, he\u2019d be so amazed at how much the world has changed.&nbsp; That there actually is gay marriage and a Pride month.&nbsp; How different his life might have been had he lived in a world that saw and appreciated him for who he was rather than attempting to shame him for his sexuality.&nbsp; I believe that every single person has the right to love who they want to love and be the person they most want to be.&nbsp; My hope for you is that you are living a life that feels authentic to you and that you have the support around you to do so, no matter your sexuality.&nbsp; Whether or not you\u2019re celebrating Pride this month&#8230;or always, I wish for you the continued freedom to rise to your truest, highest expression of yourself as a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working our way east, let\u2019s take a pit stop in Las Vegas, where the successful <strong><em>Weekends with Adele<\/em><\/strong> residency continues at <em>Caesars<\/em> <em>Palace<\/em>.&nbsp; Last week, a guy yelled out, \u201cPride sucks!\u201d&nbsp; Well, that stopped our diva in her tracks.&nbsp; Perched on the piano bench, she retorted, \u201cDid you come to my fucking show to say \u2018Pride sucks\u2019?&nbsp; Are you fucking stupid?&nbsp; Don\u2019t be so fucking ridiculous.&nbsp; If you have nothing nice to say, shut up, alright?\u201d&nbsp; As it happens, the incident was caught on video, which you can see on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we leave California, Oprah Winfrey posted a Pride Month message.&nbsp; \u201cIt was 35 years ago that my younger brother, Jeffrey Lee, died from AIDS.&nbsp; He was 29 years old.&nbsp; The year was 1989 and the world was an extremely cruel place \u2013 not just for people suffering from AIDS, but also for LGBTQ people<\/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-92708","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\/92708","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=92708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92709,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92708\/revisions\/92709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}