Billy Porter explains why the BETAwards nomination is a big deal and why he's using his voice for change.
Speaking from Long Island, where he’s currently quarantined with his husband, Adam Smith, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Porter says he likes “being booked” and feels blessed to be busy. “I hope the work keeps coming,” he adds.
airing Saturday at 7 p.m. ET on NBC. The event will shine a light on the ongoing fight against extreme poverty and the challenges faced by homeless and poor communities during the pandemic. “The people who are dying at disproportionate rates are people of color and our government is doing nothing about it. It’s called genocide,” Porter says of wanting to participate and to take action. “Until we reach the understanding of that, nothing is going to change.
Porter’s other new single, “Finally Ready” with the Shapeshifters, is a reflection on his decades-long journey, from the crisis to now, and “being ready to receive love,” he says. “As gay men of a certain age, we lived through a plague, we live through a time when our love didn’t matter, when our love was transient, when our love was dangerous,” the actor explains. “So it’s an interesting feeling to have love and not even know how to respond to it or how to receive it.
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