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FX’S POSE TURNS ’80S GAY AND TRANS CULTURE TO A HEARTFELT CELEBRATN OF FOUND FAI
That is why Stan even says he isn't gay, or reprsed, for wantg to be wh his new girliend. In the first episo of Pose, the newt seri om superproducer Ryan Murphy, a young black man, Damon (Ryan Jamaal Swa), is kicked out of his home after his parents disver gay pornography his bedroom. Sudnly homels, Damon mak a n for New York Cy, where he falls wh a group of gay and transgenr people who have fed a tight-kn muny.
The show sh a light on a real but largely undocumented chapter this untry’s history when young gay and transgenr people of lor fled to New York Cy to make new liv. Each hoe was led by a “mother, ” or a transgenr woman who took other young gay and trans people whout fai unr her wg.
If they’re acknowledged at all, the men are wrten off as closeted gay men the midst of a sexual inty crisis. MJ Rodriguez stars as Blan Rodriguez-Evangelista, a trans woman who cis to start her own hoe to bee a "mother" to LGBTQ+ folks, cludg Angel (Indya Moore), a trans woman sex worker, and Damon (Ryan Jamaal Swa), a talented dancer who was kicked out of home by his parents when they found out he was gay. The show follows the liv of fictnal characters wh the ball scene, an LGBTQ subculture where different “ho” — mostly black and Lat gay, bi, lbian and trans people — walk (or pete), ually on club stag or nways, for trophi tegori such as Face, Body, Butch Queen Realns, Femme Queen Realns, Miscellaneo Drag and Vogueg (y, this is where the dance style origated).