How Billy Porter Spent Three Decades Creating the Career He Always Wanted

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or lots of cultural constructs that we sort of just live inside of now came out of this culture. This show gets to sort of reclaim our place in the world. Five transgender actresses of color lead our cast and it's the largest LGBTQ cast in history. I'm very proud to be a part of telling this story that is about a marginalized group of people that don't get a lot of shine. Don't get talked about very often.The casting director called, told me about the show.

I thought, "If you're going to tell this story, you're going to tell the depth of it. Because I think one of things that's so powerful aboutis that it's about a marginalized culture of a group of people who had nothing, literally nothing, and chose life anyway. And I wanted to tell that story. So she went back to Ryan with this idea and he basically came back and said, "If you can do an impersonation of the emcees at the balls, we'll create something for you.

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