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Billy Porter rings out 2019 with new star-studded video for ‘Love Yourself’

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Billy Porter in his Emmy-winning role as Pray Tell in “Pose” (Photo courtesy of FX, credit: Michael Parmelee)

Billy Porter has had a pretty stellar year already, topping off a long list of fabulous accomplishments by taking home an Emmy for “Pose” to sit next to the Tony he got for starring in the Broadway hit, “Kinky Boots.”

Now, the actor, singer, and fashion icon is capping off 2019 with a new video, guest-starring an array of stage and screen stars, set to his chart-topping dance single, “Love Yourself.”

The new video has so many guest stars, in fact, that there’s no room for Porter himself to actually appear onscreen. Instead, we are treated to a joyous celebration of the song – and its powerful message – through the lip-syncing talents of Porter’s “Pose” co-stars MJ Rodriguez, Ryan Jamal Swain, Dyllón Burnside, Jeremy McClain, and Jason A. Rodriguez; “Kinky Boots” cast and creatives Cyndi Lauper, Jerry Mitchell, Stark Sands, Annaleigh Ashford, Lena Hall, and the Ogunquit Playhouse cast of the smash hit musical; the Broadway cast of “Ain’t Too Proud”; and assorted stars Kelly Ripa, Debra Messing, Lin Manuel Miranda, Patina Miller, Nathan Lee Graham, Miss J, Peppermint, and designer Christian Siriano.

In a press release, Porter is quoted as saying, “Wow… my heart just skipped a beat. What a gift it is to be celebrated by my peers and afforded a moment for me to reflect. I don’t get a lot of time to do that…how blessed I feel to have lived long enough to see this day. Thank you everybody! Thank you for listening! The category is…LOVE.”

Billy Porter’s “Love Yourself” was released in 2019 by the Butler Music Company, Inc. and reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Play Songs chart. Porter performed the anthem at the WorldPride Opening Ceremony in New York City and during his headline set on the main stage at “Pride In London” at Trafalgar Square this past summer.  He will end the year performing the song on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” which he will be hosting live from New Orleans.

Watch the video below:

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More than 1 million people attend Madonna concert in Rio

Free event took place on Copacabana Beach on Saturday

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Madonna performs on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach on May 4, 2024. (Screen capture via Reuters YouTube)

An estimated 1.6 million people on Saturday attended Madonna’s free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.

The concert, which was the last one as part of Madonna’s Celebration Tour, included a tribute to people lost to AIDS.

Bob the Drag Queen introduced Madonna before the concert began. Pabllo Vittar, a Brazilian drag queen and singer, and Anitta, a bisexual pop star who was born in Rio’s Honório Gurgel neighborhood, also joined Madonna on stage.

Congresswoman Erika Hilton, a Black travesti and former sex worker, and Rio Municipal Councilwoman Mônica Benício, the widow of Marielle Franco, a bisexual Rio Municipal Councilwoman who was assassinated in 2018, are among those who attended the concert.

“Madonna showed that we fight important fights for the human rights of Black (people), young (people), women and LGBTQIA+ people, and against all injustice, discrimination, and violence,” said Associaçao Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (National Association of Travestis and Transsexuals), a Brazilian trans rights group known by the acronym ANTRA, on its X account. “What they call identitarianism’ is our subversion to the retrograde and conservative tackiness that plagues the country.”

The Associated Press reported the concert was Madonna’s biggest ever.

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PHOTOS: Gay Day at the Zoo

Smithsonian observs International Family Equality Day

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Gay Day at the Zoo (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

The DC Center for the LGBTQ Community, SMYAL and Rainbow Families sponsored Gay Day at the Zoo on Sunday at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The Smithsonian observed International Family Equality Day with special exhibits and an event space.

(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)

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PHOTOS: Taste of Point

Annual fundraiser held for LGBTQ youth scholarship, mentorship organization

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Taste of Point DC (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

The Point Foundation held its annual Taste of Point fundraiser at Room & Board on May 2.

(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)

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