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'
- BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
- BILLY PORTER DISCS SELF-EXPRSN AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO COVER ‘ESSENCE’
BILLY PORTER: ‘I'VE LIVED AS A BLACK GAY MAN FOR 50 YEARS AMERI. NOTHG SHOCKS ME'
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I have lived as a black gay man for 50 years Ameri. Now Porter has shared that he’s been drawg on his own life as an HIV- posive gay man for the role. Porter, who was honored for his work FX’s ground-breakg perd drama “Pose, ” ma history Sunday night by beg the first openly gay black man to w this tegory, acrdg to the Televisn Amy.
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BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
” The w ma him the first openly gay black man to receive the honor the tegory. History was ma at the 2019 Emmy Awards, as that night Billy Porter was the first openly gay black man to w the award for bt actor a drama seri (via Los Angel Tim). When Billy Porter first kissed a girl, he knew he was gay.
"She me to my room before she went to llege, a sundrs, and we kissed and that's when I knew I was gay, " he relled an terview wh W magaze. Homophobia is somethg Billy Porter has fought agast his entire life.
Although Billy Porter knew om a very early age that he was gay, he grew up a very relig hoehold, which prevented him om tly beg himself. While that was the right move for Porter, he still enuntered anti-gay beliefs throughout the entirety of his reer. "The homophobia, the systematic homophobia, the bs at large, the attack on my masculy really [led] me to a crossroads, " he revealed an terview wh W magaze, " bee was like, 'Well you have to fix yourself or you won't ever have succs.
BILLY PORTER DISCS SELF-EXPRSN AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO COVER ‘ESSENCE’
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The Pose star is featured on the ont of the magaze’s July/Augt 2020 issue lookg radiant an Aliétte drs and Christian Siriano hat while discsg the current polil climate and his g-of-age stggle as a young gay black man om Ptsburgh. “Beg first-generatn post-civil rights and feedg directly to, as a gay man, the AIDS crisis, activism is my DNA, ” he told the publitn. At the New Yorker Ftival on Saturday, Pose star Billy Porter discsed how racism and homophobia impacted his reer, pecially early on.