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Armistead Maupin on trans rights and growing up gay in a homophobic household
Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer – writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. His ‘Tales of the City’ series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the…
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Billy Porter on being a queer Black man in the music industry, the actors’ strike & Trump’s America
Billy Porter tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the challenges he faced due to homophobia in the music industry in the ’90s, the harsh reality of being an actor in the golden age of streaming and what success means to him, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
