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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.
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Billy Porter is our very own EGOT-to-be (he's got the Tony and the Grammy), and now he has written a powerful piece for his hometown paper entitled “Why I Am Committed to Disturbing the Peace.”
In it, he writes, An artist's job is to disturb the peace.
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Billy Porter, who was given the Vito Russo Award from GLAAD this weekend, made as rousing a speech as Debra Messing, calling on gay people to get it together and go to war against discrimination.
He said we need to get our “war clothes” on, because:
... From slavery to emancipation to the 13th Amendment to Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Movement to Stonewall to AIDS to marriage equality, we gotta remember the shoulders who we stand on, the ones who fought and died for those freedoms that we hold so dear.
He went on to call himself a survivor of the AIDS crisis and a grateful beneficiary of the marriage-equality movement:
It's time to take this moment and acknowledge that the reailty of life is that it's ever-involving, and until we can figure out how to love on another unconditionally, no one wins — NO ONE. Freedom, equality, justice, have always come at a cost, and evidently they always will.
Keep reading to see his whole speech, which was punctuated by a repurposed gospel song ...
