'Pose' Star Billy Porter: 'Love Always Wins'

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Billy Porter is a force to be reckoned with. A Tony Award-winning Broadway performer. A fashion icon with unforgettable red carpet looks. An Emmy Award-winning actor (with another nomination under his belt this year). Currently, Porter stars in the acclaimed FX show Pose, all about New York's underground ball culture in the 80s and 90s. It's also takes place during the height of the HIV-AIDS crisis.

Sam talks to Porter about the parallels between that crisis and the one we're living in today, about growing up in the church, and why — despite everything that's happened this year — love will always win.

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0:00.0	Today, I bring you the one, the only Billy Porter.
0:04.4	So I want to talk about, pose, I want to talk about Broadway,
0:08.5	I want to talk about your background in the church,
0:11.2	because I'm also a church kid.
0:12.9	But I think I got to start out by asking,
0:16.8	what's going to be up with your epic red carpet looks this award season?
0:20.3	You know, we're used to seeing you work those looks,
0:23.4	the tuxedo dress at the Oscars,
0:25.6	being carried into the Met Gala in this wonderful gold ensemble,
0:29.1	carried by six men.
0:30.6	I'm guessing there'll be no red carpet at this year's Emmys.
0:33.7	What's you going to do?
0:34.6	No, here's the deal.
0:36.8	Okay.
0:38.0	Art as activism has always been my goal,
0:43.1	to create a space to have different kinds of conversations,
0:48.3	surrounding what it means to be masculine,
0:51.2	what it means to be gender fluid.
0:53.6	Oh yeah.
0:54.0	So that's what it's for.
0:56.4	I find myself inside of the world right now,
1:03.3	there's a time and a place for all things.
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