{"id":93555,"date":"2025-02-16T15:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93555"},"modified":"2025-02-16T15:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:47:30","slug":"trump-in-drag-queens-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/02\/16\/trump-in-drag-queens-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump In\/Drag Queens Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI love @realDonaldTrump as much as
\na straight man can love another man<\/em><\/span>.”
\n<\/em><\/span> – <\/em><\/span>Elon Musk<\/strong>.  I believe he said that during \u201cBring Your Kid to Work Day\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m more than a little annoyed at my beloved Google<\/em>.  They\u2019ve caved to pressure from our new federal government and renamed the Gulf of Mexico<\/em> as the Gulf<\/em> of <\/em>America<\/em>.  BUT (there\u2019s always a but), it will only be named that when you are in the United States.  Anywhere else, it will continue to be called the Gulf of Mexico<\/em>.  Admittedly, this is not a big deal, right?  Who cares.  I thought that way…until I discovered that Google <\/em>has also eliminated Gay Pride Month <\/em>from their calendars…along with Hispanic Heritage Month<\/em>, Women\u2019s History Month <\/em>and Holocaust Remembrance Day<\/em>.  I hear that Black History Month <\/em>was also on the list \u2013 but they felt it was better to wait until after it\u2019s over!  They\u2019re all heart.<\/p>\n

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Because he\u2019s known for his discerning taste, El Presidente <\/em><\/strong>has taken over the Kennedy<\/em> Center<\/em> as chairman of the board.  The previous CEO, David M. Rubinstein<\/strong>, held the position since 2010.  That means he was chairman through both Democratic and Republican administrations.  One of El<\/em>\u2019s first decisions was to cancel the national tour of Finn<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a children\u2019s musical shepherded through the Kennedy<\/em> Center<\/em>.  While the Center<\/em>\u2019s spokesperson says the tour cancellation was \u201ca purely financial decision\u201d, I think not.  Finn<\/em> is a musical about a young shark who \u201cwants to let out his inner fish\u201d \u2013 and I think we all know what that means.  In case it wasn\u2019t clear, the team behind the show said, \u201cAt its heart it has a universal message of love and acceptance.\u201d  Well, we can\u2019t have that!  They added, \u201cThe fact that that extends to sparkly boys seems to be controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Last week, Guy Pearce <\/strong>and Adrien Brody <\/strong>were at the Santa Barbara Film Festival <\/em>and both received the Cinema Vanguard Award<\/em>.  During a panel discussion, Pearce was asked about The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert<\/em><\/strong>.  \u201cWe made the film in \u201993, it came out in \u201994 and coming off the back of the AIDS epidemic the homophobia was just off the charts through that period.  And people were starting to speak up.  People were starting to feel braver about stepping forward and acknowledging and speaking up about who they are.  Priscilla <\/em>really enabled a voice for a lot of people, which is one of the things that we\u2019ve been told this past 30 years.\u201d  When asked about the oft-rumored sequel, he said, \u201cWe\u2019re putting together a script, what the idea might be, and if we all feel that it\u2019s worthwhile, and then we\u2019ll do it.  I think Hugo <\/strong>and I and Terence <\/strong>are certainly into it, and Steph (writer\/director Stephan Elliott<\/strong>) and Hugo and I are having lots of chats about what we might do.  So we\u2019re excited about it, but we won\u2019t do it unless it feels right.  We don\u2019t want to ruin the original one.\u201d  Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man.” – Elon Musk.  I believe he said that during \u201cBring Your Kid to Work Day\u201d. I\u2019m more than a little annoyed at my beloved Google.  They\u2019ve caved to pressure from our new federal government and renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the<\/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-93555","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\/93555","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=93555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93564,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93555\/revisions\/93564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}