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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'
Billy Porter mak history as the first openly gay black man to w lead actor a drama Emmy for FX’s “Pose.” * is billy porter gay *
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BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
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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.
BILLY PORTER DISCS SELF-EXPRSN AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO COVER ‘ESSENCE’
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.
" He add that gettg married has been credibly empowerg, pecially given all that they had been through as gay men.