In all the pose familiar places ... (GIF via Sire)
Ryan Murphy's Pose panel at the FX TCA summer press tour Friday ended with a rather striking proposition: The out mega-producer suggested Season 2 of Pose could end with the release of Madonna's “Vogue” in 1990, and an appearance by the Queen of Pop could be in the offing ...
(Image via Nuni B)
Nuni B's “Tried It” is a tribute to the ballroom scene that Pose memorializes, so this music video is an appropriate follow-up to the previous post!
Keep reading to watch and listen, femme queens ...
(Images via The Cutting Room)
Monday night at The Cutting Room was the highly anticipated concert to benefit GLSEN staged by my pal Wayne Laako and featuring some of the cast of FX's just-renewed series Pose.
Thrown together quickly for a good cause, it was a total smash, a seamless event packed with fans and filled with great performances and affirmations.
Burnside knows how to hold a stage. (All event images by Matthew Rettenmund)
Dyllón Burnside, Ricky on the show, was the emcee and main performer, and let me tell you Pose-finale watchers: Al B. Sure is no longer the #1 panty-dropper on the scene. Cute and confident, he sang his heart out eand commanded the night with his personal coming-out story and by introducing his “father,” history-making Vibe co-founding EIC Emil Wilbekin. Together, they spoke about the importance of safe spaces for LGBTQ people. The concept of a safe space is often ridiculed, parodied to mean that those who seek it expect to live life in a cocoon. In reality, it's about allowing marginalized people a shot to live their lives, not free from stress and struggle and hard work and emotional ups and downs, but free from targeted abuse and intolerance and hate.
Mila & Mj (Image via video still)
Stephen Winter directs One Stride: Chosen Family, a short film that focuses on the bond between LGBTQ people.
It's so touching, and includes Pose star Mj Rodriguez talking about being besties with singer Mila Jam; the recently departed gay activist Dick Leitsch talking about his connection with two young men who looked up to him as a trailblazer who made it possible for them to wed; and two wives stressing the importance of their union.
Keep reading to watch the short, which was produced by Winter and Ned Stresen-Reuter and presented by Barefoot ...
(Image via Entertainment Weekly)
One step forward, two steps back for EW.
Great Pose cover, which correctly hones in on what the show does right (“heartfelt”), but did you see the embarrassingly gushy sory they posted online about the A Star Is Born trailer? The film has good buzz and it's not crazy to talk about Oscar buzz based on that, but the header says Gaga already deserves an Oscar based on the snippets of her performance seen in the clip, and then goes on to describe the film almost as if it were being reviewed, not previewed.
Above: Surf and turf! Austin Wolf with some of the latest RDR girls.
It couldn't hear, but I hope he won something. (All images by Matthew Rettenmund)
Last night, FX threw a hybrid drag ball/premiere party for tonights debut of the series Pose.
The show, set in the '80s, focuses on the community for whom vogueing was a way of life and not just something you do at weddings every once in a while.
Ryan Jamaal Swain, one of the stars of Pose — and a great beauty
The event was packed, leaving many luminaries stuck on line outside. I was lucky enough to get in, so I shot all the shameless hotties, queens without subjects, living legends, and Pose cast members in my way.
Legend!!! Jose Gutierez Xtravaganza
Keep reading for a bunch of my shots (many more on Facebook!), and watch Pose on FX, Sundays ...
