{"id":93983,"date":"2025-06-29T22:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T05:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93983"},"modified":"2025-06-29T22:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T05:17:55","slug":"jojo-ditches-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/06\/29\/jojo-ditches-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"JoJo Ditches Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know who didn\u2019t perform for the gays?&nbsp; <strong>JoJo Siwa<\/strong>.&nbsp; Should you think my dismissive attitude has anything to do with her fluid sexuality, you\u2019re mistaken \u2013 I never liked her.&nbsp; JoJo was scheduled to appear at <strong><em>Chicago Pride <\/em><\/strong>on June 29<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; A week in advance, the <em>Back Lot Bash <\/em>announced on its website that Siwa would not be appearing, due to a \u201cscheduling conflict\u201d.&nbsp; Said \u201cconflict\u201d coincided with an interview in which she revealed she was never actually a lesbian.&nbsp; \u201cWhen I came out at 17, I said, \u2018I\u2019m pansexual because I don\u2019t care [about gender]\u2019.&nbsp; But then I kinda boxed myself in and I said, \u2018I\u2019m a lesbian\u2019.&nbsp; And I think I did that because of pressure.\u201d&nbsp; Couldn\u2019t she have waited until <em>Pride Month <\/em>was over to make that revelation?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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>Last week, several Democratic Senators held a private event at the <em>Justice Forum <\/em>at the <strong><em>Kennedy<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Center<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Those senators were <strong>John Hickenlooper<\/strong>, <strong>Tammy Baldwin<\/strong>, <strong>Jacky Rosen<\/strong>, <strong>Brian Schatz <\/strong>and <strong>Elizabeth Warren <\/strong>(who was almost my neighbor&#8230;but that\u2019s another story).&nbsp; They hired the producer of <strong><em>Hamilton<\/em><\/strong> to put together a show called <strong><em>Love Is Love<\/em><\/strong>, which featured <strong>John Cameron Mitchell <\/strong>and the <strong><em>Gay Men\u2019s Chorus of Washington DC<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; You\u2019ll recall that the chorus had cancelled performances at the <em>Kennedy<\/em> <em>Center<\/em>.&nbsp; Hickenlooper posted the following on Instagram: \u201cToday we hosted a Pride celebration at the Kennedy Center&#8230; The LGBTQ+ community has long embodied resilience, maintaining joy and creativity in the face of adversity.&nbsp; It\u2019s what America and the arts are all about.&nbsp; This is about standing up for freedom.&nbsp; It\u2019s about standing up for self-expression.&nbsp; At the core of it all, it\u2019s about standing up for love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard that <strong><em>Caesars<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Palace<\/em><\/strong> is trying to open a casino in the middle of <strong><em>Times Square<\/em><\/strong>?&nbsp; Because that\u2019s what the most congested place in the USA needs.&nbsp; However, it\u2019s hard for me to bash the idea when they\u2019ve pledged $5 million to support a local LGBTQ+ health center.&nbsp; Plus you know how the gays love to shove things into slots&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know who didn\u2019t perform for the gays?&nbsp; JoJo Siwa.&nbsp; Should you think my dismissive attitude has anything to do with her fluid sexuality, you\u2019re mistaken \u2013 I never liked her.&nbsp; JoJo was scheduled to appear at Chicago Pride on June 29th.&nbsp; A week in advance, the Back Lot Bash announced on its website that<\/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,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983"}],"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=93983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93984,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983\/revisions\/93984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}