{"id":2095830,"date":"2025-10-16T17:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2095830"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:45:05","slug":"the-2025-out100-murray-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-2025-out100-murray-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Out100: Murray Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mr. Showbiz, Murray Hill, says his job is simple: \u201cI make people laugh, I make \u2019em feel seen, and I make sure everybody\u2019s got a seat at the showbiz table, even if I have to pull up a folding chair myself.\u201d With Hill writing his memoir, hosting Revry\u2019s <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/gay-tv-shows\/king-of-drag-cast-revry-watch-online\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:King of Drag;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">King of Drag<\/a><\/em>, and winning a Critics Choice Award for HBO\u2019s <em>Somebody <\/em><em>Somewhere<\/em>, that table has added many more seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As conservatives attack trans people, the actor, comedian, TV host, and drag king faces them head-on \u201cby remembering the beauty and power of our community and by meeting their hate with joy, kindness, and unshakable pride. They may be louder, but we are loud \u2014 and we are many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hill also encourages the LGBTQ+ community to be more inclusive in its fight for queer and trans rights. \u201cAfter decades in this game, I still see drag kings, butches, masc folks, lesbians, and trans men treated as an afterthought,\u201d he observes. \u201cI love the spirit of \u2018trans is beautiful\u2019 and \u2018protect the dolls,\u2019 but I hope our language expands to include everyone. \u2018Protect the Ken dolls\u2019 too.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/murrayhill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@murrayhill;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@murrayhill<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Out: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/out100\/2025\/disruptors\/murray-hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The 2025 Out100: Murray Hill;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The 2025 Out100: Murray Hill<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Showbiz, Murray Hill, says his job is simple: \u201cI make people laugh, I make \u2019em feel seen, and I make sure everybody\u2019s got a seat at the showbiz table, even if I have to pull up a folding chair myself.\u201d With Hill writing his memoir, hosting Revry\u2019s King of Drag, and winning a Critics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2095831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[395837,395836],"class_list":["post-2095830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-folding-chair","tag-murray-hill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-2025-Out100-Murray-Hill.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095832,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095830\/revisions\/2095832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}