How 'Pose' Co-Creator Steven Canals' Bronx Upbringing Helped Inspire The Most Important Show On TV
earned six groundbreaking Emmy nominations. Set in New York City’s Black and Latino LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming house-ballroom community, the FX show received a nod for Outstanding Drama Series — the most prestigious mainstream recognition ever awarded to a series led by a largely queer and trans people of color cast and crew — while Billy Porter became the first openly gay black person nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series .
I was entering my sixth year working in higher education and my life had become Groundhog Day. I was just on this perpetual loop of new students arriving in August, working with them through May, working on your summer assignment in June and July, and then starting all over again in August. I was on that loop, you know? And so finally, after five years, I was so tired of beating myself up and just so happened upon a career quiz that suggested I become a screenwriter. I sat with that for a little bit, and then about a week or so later I discovered UCLA's online screenwriting program on a random film blog. I immediately applied, was accepted, and enrolled in the program while still working on-campus full-time.
Obviously I like being a queer person now, but [in the '80s and '90s] I either couldn't or didn't want to see what some people were seeing in me because there were no LGBTQ role models that could point to and say,"Look, it's fine." [To me, this community] was still living under the cloud that was HIV, AIDS, homophobia, and just so much misinformation. That's an excuse, but people were just ignorant. It was tough.
The idea of Damon came to me in 2004 when I was a college student studying film. I still hadn't stepped into my queer identity, and my biggest fear at the time was coming out and being kicked out of my family. But then I graduated from college and decided that I wasn't going to pursue film anymore, so I put the story idea away.on the page [nearly a decade later while studying screenwriting at UCLA], I was already out. I was living authentically and was really happy.
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