{"id":10368,"date":"2019-12-08T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10368"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:56:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:56:03","slug":"lena-waithe-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/08\/lena-waithe-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Waithe Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2019\/12\/08\/rising-queer-star-lena-waithe-drops-trailer-for-new-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Washington Blade (opens in a new tab)\">from The Washington Blade<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rising queer star Lena Waithe drops trailer for new series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/content\/files\/2019\/12\/RISING_QUEER_STAR_DROPS_TRAILER_FOR_NEW_SERIES_WB_08122019-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73096665\"\/><figcaption><em><strong>Lena Waithe&nbsp;<\/strong>(Image via Facebook)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lena Waithe, the out lesbian woman of color who has been among those at the forefront in the struggle to bring more visibility and representation to the entertainment industry, is on a roll as 2019 comes to a close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the heels of an impressive opening weekend for her debut feature film, \u201cQueen and Slim,\u201d the Emmy-winner dropped the trailer for her upcoming television project on BET. Titled \u201cTwenties,\u201d it\u2019s the first series in the network\u2019s history to be centered on an LGBTQ character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQueen and Slim,\u201d the rising industry powerhouse\u2019s first feature film screenplay (from a story she co-wrote with James Frey), surpassed industry expectations by making the top five box-office list for Thanksgiving weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2019\/12\/08\/rising-queer-star-lena-waithe-drops-trailer-for-new-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to read full article at The Washington Blade (opens in a new tab)\">click to read full article at The Washington Blade<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Blade Rising queer star Lena Waithe drops trailer for new series Lena Waithe, the out lesbian woman of color who has been among those at the forefront in the struggle to bring more visibility and representation to the entertainment industry, is on a roll as 2019 comes to a close. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}