
Billy Porter and 'Pose' embody a singular moment in LGBTQ history
CNN
As 'Pose' comes to a close, its legacy is a rarity in mainstream media: Black and brown queer folks telling their own stories. There is no going back to the days of being reality show sidekicks or the tragic closet case, says Clay Cane, who outlines how the productive tension between fiction and history - and mainstream and more radical modes of Black queer storytelling - are another part of the legacy of 'Pose' and its icon, Billy Porter.
Her words, from her 1942 autobiography, "Dust Tracks on a Road," encapsulate how I, and many others, navigate our identities.
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