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Billy Porter Doesn’t Need a Month to Celebrate Pride

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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The Life of a Lifer

You write about your mother in very powerful terms in this book. She's been a part of your public conversation. So can you tell us a little bit about her and really starting with her birth and the way that shaped her life? Because that's become such an important part of your own story too. Yes, she so she my grandmother was ready to have her. There was no doctor around. They gave her this medication. And then the doctor came and sort of forced my mother out which kind of pinched some sort of nerve and createdThis disability has never been named. It presents like cerebral palsy but it's not cerebral palsy at 76 years old.

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