Pray Tell and the Church of <em>Pose</em>
In its final season, the FX series exposed the heavy toll of religious stigma for countless queer people—and illuminated the beauty of a different sort of fellowship.
This article contains spoilers through the series finale of Pose.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actor Billy Porter explained the monumental meaning of his role in the FX drama Pose, which aired its series finale tonight. Yes, he won his first Emmy in 2019 for portraying Pray Tell, the cantankerous fashion designer who moonlights as an emcee in . But for the 51-year-old industry veteran, playing a character who is HIV-positive has also offereda kind of personal catharsis. Having spent 14 years hiding his own HIV diagnosis from the world, Porter saw the part as an opportunity to “say everything that I wanted to say through a surrogate.”
