![]() ![]() It's radical for humanizing trans people and portraying their unique experiences with compassion, but it shouldn't be: It's fundamentally an engrossing, uplifting show stuffed with drama and heart. Through characters Blanca ( Mj Rodriguez), Elektra ( Dominique Jackson), Angel ( Indya Moore), and Pray Tell ( Billy Porter), we befriend queer people of color who've banded together for survival, for love, and the pursuit of happiness. ![]() In this heartwarming and often hilarious drama, the trans women who started the ballroom scene - the scene that's made black/Latinx gay lingo like "slay," "read," and "spill the tea" mainstream - get their due, making them the subject of the story instead of the afterthoughts. The Normal Heart Ryan Murphy directed this adaptation of Larry Kramer’s play about a group of gay men, led by activist Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), during the rise of the AIDS crisis in. The FX series, set decades ago in the New York City ballroom community, has served to show us how much we don't know and haven't seen. How wrong we were to believe we'd seen a full, three-dimensional representation of the LGBTQ community on TV before Pose arrived in 2018.
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