He's Ready to Speak on It
New York magazine|November 20 - December 03, 2023
Billy Porter spent decades dazzling in performance before he could be himself in public. He's making up for lost time.
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He's Ready to Speak on It

BILLY PORTER’S VOICE booms. It fills up a space, demanding to be listened to. It’s likely you know a mom with a voice like that—or a Black Pentecostal pastor who uses it to work his congregation into a sanctified frenzy. Porter speaks with a rasp that glides into clear, full-throated song, sometimes mid-sentence to emphasize a point. The voice has served him well on Broadway, where he debuted over 30 years ago. And as Pray Tell, the firecracker of a ballroom MC and an elder who rules with an always-on mic and a stern tongue on the FX show Pose.

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