Billy Porter mak history as the first openly gay black man to w lead actor a drama Emmy for FX’s “Pose.”
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- 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.
So here I s — I n't get the gay parts, I n't get the straight parts, I n't get nothg. " Asi om the fact that Porter's rponse is so powerful and important for everyone to hear, what mak this even more enjoyable is that he addrs this issue ont of Madn and Grant — two straight men who have portrayed gay men on screen.
POSE'S BILLY PORTER GETS REAL ABOUT STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL, AND IT'S A MIC-DROP MOMENT
In 2018, Grant played a gay lover the BBC seri Very English Sndal, and Madn played John Reid — the love tert of Elton John — this year's bpic Rocketman. Intertgly, the mera even pans to Madn right when Porter begs to discs how straight men are often st for gay rol.