Joe.My.God. LGBT News
The New York Times reports:
The category is “Groundbreaker.” On Sunday night, Billy Porter became the first openly gay man to win the Emmy for best actor in a drama. “I am so overwhelmed and I am so overjoyed to have lived long enough to see this day,” said Porter, 50, while accepting the award. The actor won for his role as Pray Tell on the FX show “Pose,” which is set in New York City’s ball scene during the 1980s and ’90s.
“Oh my god, I’ve got to breathe. I’ve got to breathe. Oh my god, God bless you all. The category is love, you all. Love. I am so overwhelmed and I am so overjoyed to have lived long enough to see this day. James Baldwin said, ‘Took many years of vomiting up all the filth that I had been taught about myself and halfway believed before I could walk around this earth like I had the right to be here.’ I have the right. You have the right. We all have the right.”
The full list of winners is here.
Billy Porter has an emotional moment backstage after his #Emmys win, “I hope that young, queer people of all colors can look at me and know that they can.” https://t.co/G6ooSCPL2j pic.twitter.com/0u3HW65fd3
— Variety (@Variety) September 23, 2019
#Emmys: Billy Porter wins best lead actor in a drama series for #Pose https://t.co/nAKOeMzLKN pic.twitter.com/GKMPxPuI39
— Variety (@Variety) September 23, 2019