Billy Eichner has been tapped to -wre, executive produce and star "Bros," a romantic edy about gay men om Universal Pictur.
Contents:
- BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
- BILLY PORTER: ‘I'VE LIVED AS A BLACK GAY MAN FOR 50 YEARS AMERI. NOTHG SHOCKS ME'
- BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
- BILLY EICHNER LEADS FIRST BIG-STUD ROM- ABOUT GAY MEN: 'ONLY TOOK 100 YEARS!'
- FRANK WILLIAM “BILLY” GAY III’S NET WORTH, RHOSLC HEATHER’S EX-HBAND
BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
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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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BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
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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.
FRANK WILLIAM “BILLY” GAY III’S NET WORTH, RHOSLC HEATHER’S EX-HBAND
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.