In honor of our Pride Month series, TODAY sat down with Burnside to find out what is next for the rising star after this final season of 'Pose.'
“I felt that my family members’ dreams were being projected on to me,” he said. “As I grew older, I began realizing the things that I was interested in like ballet dancing or classical music, didn’t necessarily align with their ideas, or society’s ideas, of what it meant to be a man.”
“This show has been my joy, my pain, and my therapy,” Burnside continued. “It’s been a way to realize and release my own traumas and breakthrough some of the issues I hadn’t dealt with such as my own internalized homophobia, my own issues with gender identity and my own lack of awareness and understanding about the trans identity and how that lack of awareness contributed to the violence and oppression of trans people.
Porter recently made headlines after revealing he’s been HIV positive since 2007 in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Burnside, who’s character is the on-screen love interest for Porter's character, says Porter’s story is an inspiration.
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