The show features the largest cast of transgender actors in television history – and they are no strangers to struggle.
I felt like, finally, I get to tell my story and the many stories of trans women who are not here today.”
Pose might not have been made, and certainly wouldn’t have reached the mainstream audience that it has, without the involvement of TV powerhouse Ryan Murphy.
Imagine a dramatised Paris is Burning (1990) – Jennie Livingston’s classic documentary on New York’s late-1980s LGBT+ communities – and you’ll get the gist.