Filmmaker Ryan White chronicles the history and representations of LGBTQ people over some 50 years of television
Billy Porter of FX’s “Pose” is the first openly gay black man to win the Emmy for lead actor in a drama series.
The series was originally greenlighted for four installments. However, in the final months of editing White says it was clear he’d be forced to make major cuts that would hurt the project without more airtime. Luckily, Apple gave the go-ahead for an additional episode. “I knew I wanted to do it semi-chronologically,” White notes. “Some people said, ‘Oh, that’ll alienate young people if you begin in the black-and-white era.’ And I think it’s been proven by the response to this series — my only measurement is young people on Twitter — is the stuff from the ‘50s and ‘60s is what blows [people’s] mind and had to be the foundation of the beginning of the story.”
Moreover, as White and his team began interviewing more people, unexpected story lines began to take shape. The 38-year-old experienced his own formative television years in the late ‘80s and ‘90s. Even so, he was caught off guard by some programs that came up over and over again from both older and younger subjects.
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