Sony selected Billy Porter, the first openly black gay male to w an Emmy Award, to play a female the classic tale.
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- GAY HISTORY: REMEMBERG ROLLERINA: NYC’S FAIRY GODMOTHER AND FIERCE AIDS/LGBT ACTIVIST
- BEYONCé IS FALLY EMBRACG HER ROLE AS FAIRY GODMOTHER TO THE GAYSQUEENDOMBEYONCé’S QUEER FANS HAVE BEEN SGG HER SONGS FOR 25 YEARS. ON “RENAISSANCE,” SHE’S FALLY SGG BACK.SHAAN SACHVUPDATED AUG. 05, 2022 11:24AM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 05, 2022 4:31AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ER O’FLYNN/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYFOR A QUARTER-CENTURY, BEYONCé’S CURV AND MANE AND RRIèRE, HER GEM-ENCSTED BODYSUS AND SWARKOVSKI-VERED BOOB RSETS, HER SASS AND RASP AND HOT-PK STILETTOS, AND HER OLYMPIAN STAGE PRENCE HAVE PTIVATED THE SACRED RANKS OF GAY INOGRAPHY. GAY MEN LOVE HER. TRANS WOMEN LOVE HER. QUEERS ACROSS THE TECHNILOR SPECTM LOVE HER. DRAG QUEENS HOLD HER PERFORMANC AMONG THEIR HIGHT FORMS OF MIMETIC RUAL.YET, UNTIL LAST WEEK, BEYONCé HAD (ALMOST) NEVER SUNG ANYTHG ACTUALLY GAY HER LIFE.NOT THAT MATTERED. QUEERS WORSHIPPED HER ANYWAYS: NOT ONLY BEE HER NCERTS FE TOGETHER THE AMBROSIAL GLZ OF APHRODE AND KALI, BUT ALSO BEE HER SONGS LIVER SOME OF THE FT POSNS AND PRODUCTNS MASS CULTURE. THEY UNE HIGHBROW AND LOWBROW, PLEASG THE LERATI AND IGNORATI ALL AT ONCE. MIC CRICS FET TO SAY THIS! THEY FET TO REMD THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHY HER ALBUMS PROMPT GLEEFUL CLAPS AND HOORAHS OM CULTURAL SAG, WHO OTHERWISE KEEP THEIR OL THE FACE OF BILLBOARD’S HOTSHOTS.BEYONCé HAS ONE MIL EAR PRSED UP TO HER ANCTRY, THE OTHER TO VOIC OF PROVINCE. THE STCTS DON’T JT PURGE HER ALBUMS OF VACUO SPACE FILLERS. THEY ALSO GIVE A TALOG FLH WH UNNNY GOODNS. EVEN WHEN TWO DOZEN LLABORATORS SIFT THROUGH A SONG—AND WHO SAYS PASTICHE, A POSTMORN WORLD, N’T BE A BASTN OF ORIGALY?—BEYONCé SHEPHERDS THE FAL PRODUCT TO A LISTENG EXPERIENCE THAT EVOLV AND PLIT OVER TIME, LIKE AN AERATG BOTTLE OF BORX. THE POT IS, BEYONCé ISN’T MOZART. SHE’S BEYONCé, POP MIC’S REIGNG TR. HER EAKY NVERGENCE OF DIVADOM AND VIRTUOSY HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY DISPENSABLE TO HER GAY DIENCE. (IF YOU NEED A REASON, OSR WIL, HILTON ALS, AND TMAN CAPOTE, FOR STARTERS, N EXPLA.) WH RENAISSANCE, BEYONCé FALLY ADDRS THIS FANBASE DIRECTLY AND EXPLICLY. SHE WALKS THEIR WALK AND TALKS THEIR TALK. THE “REAL MAN” SHE SGS ABOUT ON “HEATED”—WHICH, UNLS HE OUT OF THE CLOSET, IS THE GAYT THG DRAKE WILL EVER TOUCH—IS NO LONGER THE “REFORMED D BOY” OF “SOLDIER,” THE “HTLA” OF “VIO PHONE,” OR THE “DADDY” OF “PARTN.” THIS SUMMER, 24 YEARS AFTER HER FIRST ALBUM, BEYONCé’S REAL MAN IS THE QUEEN, THE FAIRY, THE GODMOTHER. GLTERATI AROUND THE WORLD ARE FULL SWAG.DIVAS OF YORE ALSO TURNED TO DANCE, HOE, AND ELECTROPOP TO JOLT H LIFE TO THEIR REERS. IT TEND TO HAPPEN ON THE FAR SI OF “YOUTH,” WHEREVER THAT BEGS. WH THE TOTUNE FITA “BELIEVE,” CHER, AT 52, BEME THE OLST FEMALE ARTIST TO H NO. 1. MADONNA WAS 40 WHEN SHE RELEASED HER WILDLY SUCCSFUL RAY OF LIGHT ALBUM. WHNEY HOTON WAS ALMOST 40 WHEN SHE PUT OUT GREATT HS, WHICH FEATURED A SERI OF DANCE REMIX. AND JA JACKSON WAS ONLY 31 WHEN SHE RELEASED THE VELVET ROPE, BUT S (VERY GAY) HOE H “TOGETHER AGA” PARTED OM HER PAST WORK.OF URSE, THERE ARE ALSO THOSE LTRO LUMARI WHO BRANDISHED BOOGIE OM THE GET-GO. IF THERE’S ONE DIVA SURVEYG BEYONCé OM SOME HEAVEN FILLED WH FOG MACH AND FAWNG GO-GO BOYS, WONRG IF ’S FALLY TIME TO HAND OVER DIS’S SPARKLG TORCH, ’S THE LEGENDARILY VENTIVE DONNA SUMMER. SUMMER’S EIGHT-MUTE TRACK “I FEEL LOVE,” WHICH CHANGED THE URSE OF DANCE POP FOREVER, CHANNELS THE SAME ENCHANTED, BNIC SEX PARTY THAT ANIMAT BEYONCé’S LATT PROJECT.COMPOSNALLY SPEAKG, BEYONCé’S MOST IMPORTANT SONG THE PAST ISN’T “LOVE ON TOP” OR “DNK IN LOVE” OR “FORMATN.” RATHER, ’S “BLOW,” OM HER SELF-TLED SMASH. THE SGLE PROVED THAT BEYONCé WAS EXQUISELY PABLE OF RRYG SUMMER’S CLASS OF DIS POP TO A NEW LENNIUM. NEARLY NE YEARS LATER, RENAISSANCE TAK ON THE PSYCHOTROPIC DANCE FLOOR TRIP THAT EXPLOS TO THE BLOODSTREAM WHEN “BLOW” IS CSHED AND SNORTED—DUCG NEHER BLACKOUT NOR HYPER-ANXIETY BUT GRIMY, GDY PHORIA.EVERY SGLE ONE OF BEYONCé’S SOLO ALBUMS BEFORE RENAISSANCE SANK TO VALLEYS OF MATERNAL POWER POP AND HEARTBROKEN BALLADS. NOT THIS ONE. WH THE SAME ELECTRIFYG NTUY OF HER 2018 COACHELLA PERFORMANC, RENAISSANCE’S SONGS BLEED TO ONE ANOTHER, EACH ONE DANCEABLE, VOGUEABLE, AND DRAGGABLE. SHE’S GONE OM DDLG BROKEN HEARTS TO HOE-MOTHERG EXUBERANT QUEERS: “I WANNA HOE YOU AND MAKE YOU TAKE MY NAME,” SHE SGS ON “SUMMER RENAISSANCE,” GIVG SCY NEW MEANG TO QUEEN BEY’S QUEENNS. THE ALBUM’S ROGLY FE TRIBUTE TO SPECIFILLY TRANS, BLACK SCHOOLS OF MIC AND MOVEMENT MIGHT DO MORE TO GLOBALLY MASTREAM THE QUEER UNRGROUND THAN ANYTHG SCE MADONNA’S “VOGUE.” IT CLEARS THE DANCE FLOOR FOR “QUEENS” AND “DOMS” AND “PRETTY BOYS.” IT GLORIFI FEME MEN AND FELLAT LOVERS. WH THE BEDAZZLG, TERNATNAL FORCE OF BEYONCé’S LN-DOLLAR SPOTLIGHT, “HEATED” PAYS HOMAGE TO BALLROOM CULTURE AND REVERS S OF POP CULTURE MACHISMO THAT PEDDLED EP VOIC AND FIRM WRISTS: “FAN ME OFF, MY WRIST GO ‘CLICK.’”A QUEER POP ALBUM IS ONE THG; A QUEER BEYONCé ALBUM IS A BONANZA. CHVISM BE DAMNED—THE TTH IS THAT WHEN SHE DIRECTS HER FABULOLY FASTID GAZE UPON A NEW SOUND, A NEW DIRECTN, THE VERSN WE HEAR IS GOG TO SOUND BETTER THAN ANY OF HER NTEMPORARI. HER SAVANT-LIKE MASTERY OF OLD TRADNS AND NEW ONTIERS F RENAISSANCE’S ULTRAMORN CLUB BANGERS WH VIC RAP AND ACROBATIC RIFFS, WH SOUNDS THAT REACH OM JAM BROWN AND GRACE JON ALL THE WAY TO BIG FREEDIA, CULMATG THE ALBUM’S EXTRAORDARY HIGH POT, THE FAIRY STEPSISTER OF “BLOW” AND THE HOE OF BEYONCé’S NEW ANTHEM: “PURE/HONEY.”ALL THIS WH THE DRIP, DRIP, DRIP OF MIL STCT THAT GIV GAYS MORE THAN AN “I SEE YOU,” MORE THAN A “THANKS FOR LISTENG.” AMID THE UNGODLY PRSURE OF STG CULTURE’S PENTHOE, BEYONCé LIVERS YET AGA. BUT THIS TIME, SHE LIVERS SOMETHG DIFFERENT. INSTEAD OF SGG ABOUT (STRAIGHT) HEARTBREAK OR (STRAIGHT) BETRAYAL OR (STRAIGHT) LT, SHE FALLY TURNS TO THE FAR, FAR LEFT AND, WH A WK AND A DIRTY SUMMER SECRET, GRANTS HER QUEENS THEIR RENAISSANCE. SHAAN SACHV
- CRELLA REMAKE TO FEATURE ‘GENRLS’ FAIRY GODMOTHER PLAYED BY GAY MAN
- FAIRY GODMOTHER IS NOW A BLACK GAY DU CRELLA REMAKE
GAY HISTORY: REMEMBERG ROLLERINA: NYC’S FAIRY GODMOTHER AND FIERCE AIDS/LGBT ACTIVIST
There is no genr, " Porter, who ma history as the first openly gay Black man to w a lead actor drama Emmy, explaed.
He skated mostly the gay neighborhoods, the Easter Para, Gay Pri march and popular dis’s like Stud 54 and was a fierce gay rights activist. HOLLYWOOD, California, October 25, 2019 (LifeSeNews) — The role of the fairy godmother Sony’s upg live-actn Crella movie will be played by a homosexual man. In The Broken Hearts Club, he played a jad homosexual man who is st asi by his lover.
Acrdg to People magaze, Porter beme the first overtly homosexual black male to w an Emmy Award for bt actor (2019) for the role of Pray Tell FX’s Pose. Pose is a televisn seri that picts black and Lato homosexuals and transvt of the 1980s who participated unrworld ballroom petns to ntend for dance trophi and other regnn for their choreography and stum.
BEYONCé IS FALLY EMBRACG HER ROLE AS FAIRY GODMOTHER TO THE GAYSQUEENDOMBEYONCé’S QUEER FANS HAVE BEEN SGG HER SONGS FOR 25 YEARS. ON “RENAISSANCE,” SHE’S FALLY SGG BACK.SHAAN SACHVUPDATED AUG. 05, 2022 11:24AM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 05, 2022 4:31AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ER O’FLYNN/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYFOR A QUARTER-CENTURY, BEYONCé’S CURV AND MANE AND RRIèRE, HER GEM-ENCSTED BODYSUS AND SWARKOVSKI-VERED BOOB RSETS, HER SASS AND RASP AND HOT-PK STILETTOS, AND HER OLYMPIAN STAGE PRENCE HAVE PTIVATED THE SACRED RANKS OF GAY INOGRAPHY. GAY MEN LOVE HER. TRANS WOMEN LOVE HER. QUEERS ACROSS THE TECHNILOR SPECTM LOVE HER. DRAG QUEENS HOLD HER PERFORMANC AMONG THEIR HIGHT FORMS OF MIMETIC RUAL.YET, UNTIL LAST WEEK, BEYONCé HAD (ALMOST) NEVER SUNG ANYTHG ACTUALLY GAY HER LIFE.NOT THAT MATTERED. QUEERS WORSHIPPED HER ANYWAYS: NOT ONLY BEE HER NCERTS FE TOGETHER THE AMBROSIAL GLZ OF APHRODE AND KALI, BUT ALSO BEE HER SONGS LIVER SOME OF THE FT POSNS AND PRODUCTNS MASS CULTURE. THEY UNE HIGHBROW AND LOWBROW, PLEASG THE LERATI AND IGNORATI ALL AT ONCE. MIC CRICS FET TO SAY THIS! THEY FET TO REMD THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHY HER ALBUMS PROMPT GLEEFUL CLAPS AND HOORAHS OM CULTURAL SAG, WHO OTHERWISE KEEP THEIR OL THE FACE OF BILLBOARD’S HOTSHOTS.BEYONCé HAS ONE MIL EAR PRSED UP TO HER ANCTRY, THE OTHER TO VOIC OF PROVINCE. THE STCTS DON’T JT PURGE HER ALBUMS OF VACUO SPACE FILLERS. THEY ALSO GIVE A TALOG FLH WH UNNNY GOODNS. EVEN WHEN TWO DOZEN LLABORATORS SIFT THROUGH A SONG—AND WHO SAYS PASTICHE, A POSTMORN WORLD, N’T BE A BASTN OF ORIGALY?—BEYONCé SHEPHERDS THE FAL PRODUCT TO A LISTENG EXPERIENCE THAT EVOLV AND PLIT OVER TIME, LIKE AN AERATG BOTTLE OF BORX. THE POT IS, BEYONCé ISN’T MOZART. SHE’S BEYONCé, POP MIC’S REIGNG TR. HER EAKY NVERGENCE OF DIVADOM AND VIRTUOSY HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY DISPENSABLE TO HER GAY DIENCE. (IF YOU NEED A REASON, OSR WIL, HILTON ALS, AND TMAN CAPOTE, FOR STARTERS, N EXPLA.) WH RENAISSANCE, BEYONCé FALLY ADDRS THIS FANBASE DIRECTLY AND EXPLICLY. SHE WALKS THEIR WALK AND TALKS THEIR TALK. THE “REAL MAN” SHE SGS ABOUT ON “HEATED”—WHICH, UNLS HE OUT OF THE CLOSET, IS THE GAYT THG DRAKE WILL EVER TOUCH—IS NO LONGER THE “REFORMED D BOY” OF “SOLDIER,” THE “HTLA” OF “VIO PHONE,” OR THE “DADDY” OF “PARTN.” THIS SUMMER, 24 YEARS AFTER HER FIRST ALBUM, BEYONCé’S REAL MAN IS THE QUEEN, THE FAIRY, THE GODMOTHER. GLTERATI AROUND THE WORLD ARE FULL SWAG.DIVAS OF YORE ALSO TURNED TO DANCE, HOE, AND ELECTROPOP TO JOLT H LIFE TO THEIR REERS. IT TEND TO HAPPEN ON THE FAR SI OF “YOUTH,” WHEREVER THAT BEGS. WH THE TOTUNE FITA “BELIEVE,” CHER, AT 52, BEME THE OLST FEMALE ARTIST TO H NO. 1. MADONNA WAS 40 WHEN SHE RELEASED HER WILDLY SUCCSFUL RAY OF LIGHT ALBUM. WHNEY HOTON WAS ALMOST 40 WHEN SHE PUT OUT GREATT HS, WHICH FEATURED A SERI OF DANCE REMIX. AND JA JACKSON WAS ONLY 31 WHEN SHE RELEASED THE VELVET ROPE, BUT S (VERY GAY) HOE H “TOGETHER AGA” PARTED OM HER PAST WORK.OF URSE, THERE ARE ALSO THOSE LTRO LUMARI WHO BRANDISHED BOOGIE OM THE GET-GO. IF THERE’S ONE DIVA SURVEYG BEYONCé OM SOME HEAVEN FILLED WH FOG MACH AND FAWNG GO-GO BOYS, WONRG IF ’S FALLY TIME TO HAND OVER DIS’S SPARKLG TORCH, ’S THE LEGENDARILY VENTIVE DONNA SUMMER. SUMMER’S EIGHT-MUTE TRACK “I FEEL LOVE,” WHICH CHANGED THE URSE OF DANCE POP FOREVER, CHANNELS THE SAME ENCHANTED, BNIC SEX PARTY THAT ANIMAT BEYONCé’S LATT PROJECT.COMPOSNALLY SPEAKG, BEYONCé’S MOST IMPORTANT SONG THE PAST ISN’T “LOVE ON TOP” OR “DNK IN LOVE” OR “FORMATN.” RATHER, ’S “BLOW,” OM HER SELF-TLED SMASH. THE SGLE PROVED THAT BEYONCé WAS EXQUISELY PABLE OF RRYG SUMMER’S CLASS OF DIS POP TO A NEW LENNIUM. NEARLY NE YEARS LATER, RENAISSANCE TAK ON THE PSYCHOTROPIC DANCE FLOOR TRIP THAT EXPLOS TO THE BLOODSTREAM WHEN “BLOW” IS CSHED AND SNORTED—DUCG NEHER BLACKOUT NOR HYPER-ANXIETY BUT GRIMY, GDY PHORIA.EVERY SGLE ONE OF BEYONCé’S SOLO ALBUMS BEFORE RENAISSANCE SANK TO VALLEYS OF MATERNAL POWER POP AND HEARTBROKEN BALLADS. NOT THIS ONE. WH THE SAME ELECTRIFYG NTUY OF HER 2018 COACHELLA PERFORMANC, RENAISSANCE’S SONGS BLEED TO ONE ANOTHER, EACH ONE DANCEABLE, VOGUEABLE, AND DRAGGABLE. SHE’S GONE OM DDLG BROKEN HEARTS TO HOE-MOTHERG EXUBERANT QUEERS: “I WANNA HOE YOU AND MAKE YOU TAKE MY NAME,” SHE SGS ON “SUMMER RENAISSANCE,” GIVG SCY NEW MEANG TO QUEEN BEY’S QUEENNS. THE ALBUM’S ROGLY FE TRIBUTE TO SPECIFILLY TRANS, BLACK SCHOOLS OF MIC AND MOVEMENT MIGHT DO MORE TO GLOBALLY MASTREAM THE QUEER UNRGROUND THAN ANYTHG SCE MADONNA’S “VOGUE.” IT CLEARS THE DANCE FLOOR FOR “QUEENS” AND “DOMS” AND “PRETTY BOYS.” IT GLORIFI FEME MEN AND FELLAT LOVERS. WH THE BEDAZZLG, TERNATNAL FORCE OF BEYONCé’S LN-DOLLAR SPOTLIGHT, “HEATED” PAYS HOMAGE TO BALLROOM CULTURE AND REVERS S OF POP CULTURE MACHISMO THAT PEDDLED EP VOIC AND FIRM WRISTS: “FAN ME OFF, MY WRIST GO ‘CLICK.’”A QUEER POP ALBUM IS ONE THG; A QUEER BEYONCé ALBUM IS A BONANZA. CHVISM BE DAMNED—THE TTH IS THAT WHEN SHE DIRECTS HER FABULOLY FASTID GAZE UPON A NEW SOUND, A NEW DIRECTN, THE VERSN WE HEAR IS GOG TO SOUND BETTER THAN ANY OF HER NTEMPORARI. HER SAVANT-LIKE MASTERY OF OLD TRADNS AND NEW ONTIERS F RENAISSANCE’S ULTRAMORN CLUB BANGERS WH VIC RAP AND ACROBATIC RIFFS, WH SOUNDS THAT REACH OM JAM BROWN AND GRACE JON ALL THE WAY TO BIG FREEDIA, CULMATG THE ALBUM’S EXTRAORDARY HIGH POT, THE FAIRY STEPSISTER OF “BLOW” AND THE HOE OF BEYONCé’S NEW ANTHEM: “PURE/HONEY.”ALL THIS WH THE DRIP, DRIP, DRIP OF MIL STCT THAT GIV GAYS MORE THAN AN “I SEE YOU,” MORE THAN A “THANKS FOR LISTENG.” AMID THE UNGODLY PRSURE OF STG CULTURE’S PENTHOE, BEYONCé LIVERS YET AGA. BUT THIS TIME, SHE LIVERS SOMETHG DIFFERENT. INSTEAD OF SGG ABOUT (STRAIGHT) HEARTBREAK OR (STRAIGHT) BETRAYAL OR (STRAIGHT) LT, SHE FALLY TURNS TO THE FAR, FAR LEFT AND, WH A WK AND A DIRTY SUMMER SECRET, GRANTS HER QUEENS THEIR RENAISSANCE. SHAAN SACHV
Also June durg “Gay Pri” month ftivi, an episo of Pose featured a lbian activist who ma false claims about the Catholic Church. Donohue also relled that Cardal John O’Connor and the Catholic League did not mand that homosexual bathho rema open New York Cy.
CRELLA REMAKE TO FEATURE ‘GENRLS’ FAIRY GODMOTHER PLAYED BY GAY MAN
“That’s how the annihilatn of the gay muny happened.
Even gay activists such as Larry Kramer have said so, ” Donohue said.
“Fally, Catholic bashg, jt like gay bashg, n never be fend. ReviewsTrailersInterviewsRepsHot TakWhat To WatchIndtry NewsRealy TelevisnDramaRomantic ComedyComedyActnTVMoviReviewsHot TakRealy TVBarbieBack To ObssedBeyoncé Is Fally Embracg Her Role as Fairy Godmother to the GaysBeyoncé’s queer fans have been sgg her songs for 25 years. On “Renaissance, ” she’s fally sgg Illtratn by Er O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyFor a quarter-century, Beyoncé’s curv and mane and rrière, her gem-encsted bodysus and Swarkovski-vered boob rsets, her sass and rasp and hot-pk stilettos, and her Olympian stage prence have ptivated the sacred ranks of gay inography.
FAIRY GODMOTHER IS NOW A BLACK GAY DU CRELLA REMAKE
Gay men love her. Drag queens hold her performanc among their hight forms of mimetic, until last week, Beyoncé had (almost) never sung anythg actually gay her that mattered. Her eaky nvergence of divadom and virtuosy has been particularly dispensable to her gay dience.
The “real man” she sgs about on “Heated”—which, unls he out of the closet, is the gayt thg Drake will ever touch—is no longer the “reformed D boy” of “Soldier, ” the “htla” of “Vio Phone, ” or the “daddy” of “Partn.
And Ja Jackson was only 31 when she released The Velvet Rope, but s (very gay) hoe h “Together Aga” parted om her past urse, there are also those ltro lumari who brandished boogie om the get-go. ”All this wh the drip, drip, drip of mil stct that giv gays more than an “I see you, ” more than a “Thanks for listeng. The mov e as Disney fds self ensnared a culture war Florida over the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.