begin with in the role of a transgender woman. it s a very weird piece of television that feels incredibly locked in the time in which it was made. they had a specific mandate to cast authentically queer and transgender people of color. pose is about drag ball culture during the height of the aids crisis in america. it is about queer family structures, about the ways that queer people come together and form families that are not of biological origin but, rather, of choice. keep living. put on your tallest pump and go on and get back out into the world. you ain t dead yet. there is nothing more tragic than a sad queen. i m not sad. billy porter as pray tell is the central father figure throughout this entire series, playing both announcer and mentor to pretty much everyone. the recipient has taught us that a house is much more than a home. it s family.
pray tell was an unapologetically authentic character. billy porter is terrific as pray tell, who has hiv and is sort of just waiting to die. in the episode love is the message, he performs a song. tomorrow may never come it s gutting, and it s groundbreaking, and it s forcing american television to look at this period in history that american culture still doesn t quite want to look at. the history that was made with that show just in its creation is incredible. come seek the royal caribbean. it s time for a new kind of diamond. the “you re always there for me” diamond. the “you re my inspiration” diamond. the diamond that honors every side of her.
As a child in the 1970s, Billy Porter fantasized about growing up to become "the male Whitney Houston." He’ll dip back into that oft-deferred dream later this week in both San Jose and San Francisco concerts.