Lauren Krenzel and Thea Chaloner produced and edited the audio of this interview. And so I was just trying it and testing the waters. So that's a good justification to sort of try it. And then I got Pose and I thought, "Well, if I'm going to do anything on the red carpet that plays with gender, this is the role and the space to do it.". It didn't occur to me, even after playing Lola on Broadway, that I, Billy, would ever sort of entertain the idea of wearing feminine clothing in my real life, because there's such a taboo on it. I was the kid that dressed up in a shirt and tie to go to public high school. , my favorite time of year was Easter and Christmas, because I would get a new suit every Easter and Christmas for church. And I also grew up in the church, in the Black church, and as we all know now, the Black church is a fashion show. I'm first generation post-civil rights movement, and we were taught that the first impression is what you look like.
Porter, who wore an iconic tuxedo gown to the 2019 Academy Awards, says he's always been "a fashion person." On his decision to wear a tuxedo gown to the 2019 Oscars And so, you know, I called it an "affair" till I was 25 years old and in therapy. And so when she got married, she started sending him in, and that's how it kind of started. And then I would wake up in the morning and she would be gone and it would be cool. And, you know, it was just her presence that was sort of enough. When I would have nightmares prior to my stepfather, my mother would come in and just lay beside me. the doctor told my mother that I was fine and that she just needed to get a man around the house and that would teach me to be more of a man. There were a lot of women and I was effeminate, and we were religious and they were afraid that I was too effeminate. On being abused by his stepfather, beginning when Porter was 7 the day I went in to shoot my death scene, I said to the whole cast and crew, "This is the death of Pray Tell, but the rebirth of Billy." You know, I was so excited that I was able to play a character where I could use the work to sort of try to heal my own pain, my own shame as it related to my own HIV status. The first two seasons, I was so excited that somebody was finally taking me seriously as an actor that I didn't even realize I was being triggered. Pop Culture Happy Hour Farewell To 'Pose,' Which Fused Grief And Joy, Right Up To The Finale But he landed the lead role in the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, and, in 2013, he won a Tony for that performance and then a Grammy for the cast album the following year. Theater roles were scarce, Porter says, because he is Black and was often considered too flamboyant - even for characters who were described as flamboyant. After graduation, Porter headed to New York, determined to make it on Broadway. Porter's family didn't have much money, but he managed to get into a high school for performing arts, and then attended college at Carnegie Mellon, studying theater and voice. Theater, he says, "cracked open a space for me to dream beyond my circumstance."
It wasn't until he was introduced to the world of theater in sixth grade that Porter began to imagine a different future. I am proof positive of that," he says.Īctor Billy Porter grew up in Pittsburgh, immersed in the Pentecostal church and convinced that he would be damned for being gay. "Fabulous and serious can go hand in hand. Billy Porter attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
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