Billy Porter mak history as the first openly gay black man to w lead actor a drama Emmy for FX’s “Pose.”
Contents:
- BILLY PORTER: ‘I'VE LIVED AS A BLACK GAY MAN FOR 50 YEARS AMERI. NOTHG SHOCKS ME'
- POSE'S BILLY PORTER GETS REAL ABOUT STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL, AND IT'S A MIC-DROP MOMENT
BILLY PORTER: ‘I'VE LIVED AS A BLACK GAY MAN FOR 50 YEARS AMERI. NOTHG SHOCKS ME'
Now Porter has shared that he’s been drawg on his own life as an HIV- posive gay man for the role. The ernor of Arkansas threatened to -fund PBS Arkansas if they ran the episo, bee ’s perverted, ’s the gay agenda, and I’m gonna e to their home and molt their children.
I have lived as a black gay man for 50 years Ameri.
Billy Porter isn't holdg back his thoughts about stg straight actors for gay rol. The biggt reason he c as the e of his early difficulti the dtry is his inty as a person of lor and a gay man. "But don't [happen], bee straight men playg gay — everyone wants to give them an award.
POSE'S BILLY PORTER GETS REAL ABOUT STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL, AND IT'S A MIC-DROP MOMENT
So here I s — I n't get the gay parts, I n't get the straight parts, I n't get nothg.