Billy Porter
American actor and singer
Holding on to my sanity.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not giving up on myself. As a gay black man things are, at times, more difficult.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 September 2021 source ↗
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