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‘West Side Story,’ ‘Encanto’ & More Win Big at 2022 Golden Globes

Kiko Martinez — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:49:19 +0000

The Latine talent at the center of West Side Story, Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose, were some of the big winners at the 2022 Golden Globe Awards, which took place Sunday (January 9) – without its usual live telecast and celebrity audience. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the winners on Twitter. After a

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Steven Canals Lone Latine on THR’s 2021 List of Most Powerful Showrunners

Kiko Martinez — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:38:31 +0000

The Hollywood Reporter released its list of “Hollywood’s 50 Most Powerful TV Showrunners” late last week and a single Latine made the cut for 2021 – one more than last year. Steven Canals, the co-creator of Pose was included on the annual list four months after the TV series ended its third and final season

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MJ Rodriguez to Receive ‘LGBTQIA+ Trailblazer’ Award from GALECA

Lyra Hale — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 21:11:28 +0000

Pose star MJ Rodriguez will be receiving an award from GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, during the Dorians TV Toast 2021. This comes after the transgender performer scored a leading-role Emmy nomination for her time on Pose as Blanca Evangelista. She is the first to receive such a nomination and it’s honestly what

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Here Are the Latinx Performers Nominated for the 2021 Emmys — Including MJ Rodriguez’s Historic Nod

Kiko Martinez — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:19:18 +0000

Nominations for the 73rd annual Emmys were announced Tuesday morning and included a handful of Latinx talent, including one historic nod. For Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, MJ Rodriguez — who recently rebranded herself as Michaela Jaé — earned a historic nomination for her role on the FX series Pose. This nod makes her

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Could 2021 Be a Breakout Year For Latinos at the Emmys?

Toni Gonzales — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 23:52:48 +0000

Hollywood is in the midst of coming out of a 16-month long hiatus. The reemerging includes movies in theaters, red carpet premieres — and a long-awaited award show season. While there were attempts to continue the age-old tradition of “the award goes to” during the pandemic, it’s been a minute since we’ve seen a punctual

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‘POSE’ To End Series With Upcoming Third Season

Yolanda Machado — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:36:03 +0000

The groundbreaking, Emmy and Peabody award-winning drama that changed what representation can look like, POSE will come to an end with its previously announced third season. “Write the TV show you want to watch! That’s what I was told in 2014 while completing my MFA in screenwriting,” showrunner Steven Canals tweeted. “At the time we

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Watch ‘Disclosure,’ a Groundbreaking Doc Chronicling the History of Trans Representation on Screen

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:53:54 +0000

Shows like Pose, Tales of the City and Orange is the New Black – as well as films like the Oscar winning A Fantastic Woman — have put trans representation at the forefront of popular culture. But as the new documentary Disclosure reminds us, such victories of visibility have been decades in the making. Executive producer Laverne Cox and director Sam Feder

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Watch Openly Queer Texas State Rep. Jessica González Visit Latinx Art Space Mercado369 in PBS’s ‘Prideland’

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:30:59 +0000

To celebrate Pride month, PBS is premiering Prideland. a new one-hour special and short-form digital series following host and actor Dyllón Burnside (Pose) on a journey across the South seeing how the United States is changing for LGBTQ people from within. During his stop in Dallas, Burnside meets up with out Texas State Representative Jessica González who

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Cast & Crew of ‘Pose’ Have One Message for the NAACP: Black Trans Lives Matter

Manuel Betancourt — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:32:40 +0000

A new pledged donation on the part of the Walt Disney Company has encouraged the cast and crew of Emmy-nominated Pose to speak out in support of what well may be the FX drama’s core philosophy: Black Trans Lives Matter. Creator Steven Canals as well as cast members Indya Moore and MJ Rodriguez tweeted the same

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‘Pose’ Star Indya Moore On Why They Don’t Identify as Latino: “I’m Not White”

Yara Simón — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 23:51:46 +0000

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Pose star Indya Moore, who is of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent and uses the gender neutral pronouns they/them, talked about identifying as Afro-Taíno. So when Remezcla spoke to them at the Emmys red carpet on Sunday, September 22, we asked them to elaborate on what this term means to

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