By Laura Medina
Before accepting his Honorary Award by New York Magazine’s Vulture Culture Festival, in Hollywood, Tony, Grammy, and Emmy winner and Broadway veteran and former R n B singer…and survivor, Billy Porter sat to lecture the fans, the wannabes, and the jealous, the difference between seriousness and being fabulous.
Him being awarded, such as receiving Vulture Culture’s Honorary Award, that’s what he calls being fabulous.
The long, torturous, and twisting road, that still wind, after winning Emmys, Tony, and Grammy, Billy calls this being serious.
He also describes what is drive and ambition. As Carnegie Mellon junior, he used his Spring Break to get on Star Search in 1992.
That’s part of seriousness.
Let’s face it, he loves Broadway and New York.
Seriousness, according to Billy, was putting up playing degrading, humiliated comedic song and dance “coon” roles on Broadway.
He even lied to himself in then straight R n B industry, just to make it as a singer, even though he hated the toxic masculinity and the vixens attracted to it.
He back to stage.
Billy calls that torturous journey, “seriousness.”
Winning a Tony for Kinky Boots, as an openly gay man, that’s fabulous, according to him.
Having Ryan Murphy especially writing a role, based and tailored on me, when Billy auditioned for another role, that’s fabulous.
Him playing Pray Tell on FX’s Pose, won him numerous Emmys, again fabulous.
After being awarded Vulture Culture’s Honorary Award, Billy is still serious, waiting for an Oscar, in order to be a fabulous EGOT: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony winner.
That’s fabulous.
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