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Billy Porter Recalls Going to Pride for the 1st Time at 19 Years Old


Billy Porter opens up to Us exclusively about his first time at a Pride March in the ‘80s

Allies like Melissa McCarthy and Christine Quinn joined LGBTQ+ icons such as Tinashe and Niecy Nash-Betts for 2023 pride celebrations. Just two years after his first Pride parade, Porter would make his broadway debut in Miss Saigon — the beginning of a storied career in the theater and beyond. “I was trying to have a life and a career, and I wasn’t certain I could if the wrong people knew,” Porter told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021, telling the world about his diagnosis for the first time.

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