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. On playing Pray Tell, a character on Pose who is diagnosed with HIV And so, you know, it was actively working through the shame to get to the other side of that, which is truth and healing and authenticity. And you know, I had nothing but shame in my entire life. On why he kept his HIV status secret (he was diagnosed in 2007 and didn't reveal his diagnosis until 14 years later) It was seeing that show that helped me understand, "Oh, I can make a living doing this? I'm going to figure out every way that I can to do that. for some reason, seeing theater on television registered that I could make money doing it. and the Tony Awards came on and Jennifer Holliday sang " And I'm Telling You, I'm Not Going" and. I happened to be washing dishes in my kitchen. On realizing as a teenager that he could make a profession out of being in the theater Porter tells his story in the new memoir, Unprotected. Porter says that while he and his Pose character, Pray Tell, share the same sharp tongue and sharp wit, they have one key difference: "I am always leading with kindness and compassion." "That has been a very powerful, powerful thing that has come out of the show," he says. He says being open about his health status felt like a rebirth. While that season was airing, Porter also revealed he is HIV-positive. Porter's character, Pray Tell, is diagnosed with HIV in Season 1 and dies from HIV/AIDS in the third and final season.
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More recently, Porter won an Emmy for his starring role on Pose, an FX series set in the underground gay and trans ball culture of the late '80s and '90s. 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. Actor Billy Porter grew up in Pittsburgh, immersed in the Pentecostal church and convinced that he would be damned for being gay.
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