Billy Porter is the recipient of the GAY TIMES Honour for Outstanding Impact. The multihyphenate star, who dropped his brand new album Black Mona Lisa today, has continued to have a stratospheric rise in his career.
After treading the floorboards of Broadway, Porter turned his attention to the screen by starring in Ryan Murphy’s trailblazing trans drama Pose as Pray Tell.
The critically-acclaimed drama saw Porter cement himself in history as the first openly gay Black man to win a Primetime Emmy Award.
Pose also provided a watershed moment for television, following the queer African-American and Latino communities of the outrageous and glamourous world of NYC’s Vogue scene in contrast to the tortuous realities of the HIV epidemic.