'Our Stories Have Value And Deserve To Be Told': Co-Creator Talks Emmy-Winning TV Show 'Pose'
Steven Canals discusses the importance of centering the experiences of black, Latinx, queer and trans characters in television and films.
When Bronx-native Steven Canals first watched “Paris Is Burning” in college, he was coming into his own queer identity.
The documentary inspired him to do two things that would change his life: come out and create the Emmy-winning FX show “Pose.”
“If all of these incredible individuals could live in their truth at that time with everything that was facing them,” he says, “then I, as someone who at that point had the privilege to be working on a college degree, had no excuse.”
The melodrama tells the story of a teenage boy who
