See Billy Porter make history with a groundbreaking Emmys win for PoseFX
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. The landmark win makes him the first openly gay black man to win in the Emmys’ Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series category. Dressed in a sequined, striped suit and wearing a flamboyant black hat, Porter took the stage to begin a moving speech. “I gotta read! The category is ‘love,’ y’all. Love! … I am so overwhelmed to have lived long enough to see this day. James Baldwin said, ‘It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the Earth as though I had a right to be here.
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