Billy Eichner leads first big-stud rom- about gay men: 'Only took 100 years!'

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Billy Eichner has been tapped to -wre, executive produce and star "Bros," a romantic edy about gay men om Universal Pictur.

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BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA

"I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of 'Billy on the Street' aga," says Eichner, whose gay rom- 'Bros' is due September. * gay guy named billy *

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BILLY PORTER: ‘I'VE LIVED AS A BLACK GAY MAN FOR 50 YEARS AMERI. NOTHG SHOCKS ME'

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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. 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.

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"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.

BILLY EICHNER LEADS FIRST BIG-STUD ROM- ABOUT GAY MEN: 'ONLY TOOK 100 YEARS!'

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.

" He add that gettg married has been credibly empowerg, pecially given all that they had been through as gay men.

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Billy Porter ma his character Kky Boots "super gay". So he ma Lola "super gay, " as noted by Esquire, and wound up wng a Tony Award for his performance.

"I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of Billy on the Street aga, " says Eichner, who also reveals plans for his next project: a gay-divorce edy.

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