{"id":94299,"date":"2025-10-05T22:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94299"},"modified":"2025-10-05T22:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:21:22","slug":"birthday-cake-and-stds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/10\/05\/birthday-cake-and-stds\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Cake and STDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not <em>Broadway<\/em>\u2019s <strong>Mark MacKillop <\/strong>is a good friend of this column and of <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; As you know, he\u2019s a tireless fundraiser for our community, and has been the highest fundraiser at <strong><em>Broadway Bares<\/em><\/strong> for eight consecutive years.&nbsp; He\u2019s the hoofer with a heart of gold.&nbsp; On October 13<sup>th<\/sup>, he\u2019s marking his birthday by putting on a show at the <em>Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre <\/em>in NYC.&nbsp; Proceeds will go to <em>Broadway Cares\/Equity Fights AIDS<\/em>.&nbsp; If seeing Mark in his birthday suit (and me in the audience) appeals to you, grab some tickets at <a href=\"https:\/\/ci.ovationtix.com\/36867\/production\/1249807?performanceId=11686178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>OvationTix.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/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>In a very brief <em><strong>Ask Billy <\/strong><\/em>question, <strong>Lenny <\/strong>in Pittsburgh, PA writes, <em>\u201cWho gave <strong>Lukas Gage <\/strong>an STD?&nbsp; He recently told a reporter he got it from an ex.&nbsp; Was it his ex-husband?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s me correct you \u2013 he didn\u2019t catch an STD.&nbsp; He caught TWO STDs from a former partner.&nbsp; This either means that he\u2019s terribly unlucky, or there is some fault in his screening process for potential paramours.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t reveal who gave him the STDs or, for that matter, what they were.&nbsp; But he says it\u2019s not his fault.&nbsp; \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that I was in an opposition to having a non-monogamous relationship, it was just not talked about.\u201d&nbsp; Whose fault would that be?&nbsp; Does anyone have a mirror?&nbsp; If you don\u2019t discuss it, don\u2019t assume it.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure more delightful anecdotes like this will pop up in the 30-year-old\u2019s memoir, <strong><em>I Wrote This For Attention<\/em><\/strong>, which comes out on October 14<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><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\"><\/p>\n<p>When Lukas at least came up with the perfect title for his autobiography, we\u2019ve definitely come to the end of yet another column.&nbsp; Talk about truth in advertising.&nbsp; Sure, Gage will say it\u2019s all tongue in cheek \u2013 but I think we can all agree he should be a bit more discriminatory with which cheeks he puts his tongue!&nbsp; For more visual aids, check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">www.BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site site ain\u2019t shy.&nbsp; If you want me to look into something, dash a note off to <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before I invite anyone over for some &#8220;lemonade&#8221;.&nbsp; So, until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Broadway\u2019s Mark MacKillop is a good friend of this column and of Billy Masters LIVE.&nbsp; As you know, he\u2019s a tireless fundraiser for our community, and has been the highest fundraiser at Broadway Bares for eight consecutive years.&nbsp; He\u2019s the hoofer with a heart of gold.&nbsp; On October 13th, he\u2019s marking his birthday by<\/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\/94299"}],"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=94299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94300,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94299\/revisions\/94300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}