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- BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
- BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
- BILLY JACK GAHER WAS SAVAGELY MURRED 1999 BEE HE WAS GAY ALABAMA
BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
"I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child.
Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns.
BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
"I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay?
BILLY JACK GAHER WAS SAVAGELY MURRED 1999 BEE HE WAS GAY ALABAMA
"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said.
Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay. Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay.