DISNEY TELEVISION STUDIOS AND FX PARTNER TO PRODUCE "POSE-A-THON," A ONE HOUR EVENT TO ENTERTAIN AND INFORM IN HONOR OF PRID
DISNEY TELEVISION STUDIOS AND FX PARTNER TO PRODUCE “POSE-A-THON,” A ONE HOUR EVENT TO ENTERTAIN AND INFORM IN HONOR OF PRIDE MONTH STARRING THE CAST AND PRODUCERS OF THE GROUNDBREAKING DRAMA SERIES “POSE”
Billy Porter and Mj Rodriguez, together with the forged and producers of “Pose” will come collectively for this one-hour industrial free digital occasion in partnership with GLSEN, Hetrick-Martin Institute, and Transgender Authorized Protection & Schooling Fund
Particular to air concurrently on FX and Freeform on Friday, June 26 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT with on-line viewing out there at www.poseathon.com beginning 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT
LOS ANGELES, CA – June 18, 2020 – Stay, Work, Pose-A-Thon! As part of Satisfaction month, Disney Tv Studios and FX as we speak introduced the launch of “Pose-A-Thon,” a industrial free one-hour digital occasion, showcasing the forged and producers of “Pose” to boost consciousness for 3 notable organizations that work to assist LGBTQ+ schooling, social change for sexual and gender minority individuals of coloration, and transgender equality by authorized providers and coverage efforts. The particular emceed by Emmy, Grammy, and Tony-award profitable actor and activist Billy Porter together with co-star Mj Rodriguez will air Friday, June 26 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on FX and Freeform. Viewers may also tune-in similar day beginning at 7:00 p.m. PT at www.poseathon.com.
“I am so happy with our forged and producers for coming collectively to current an uplifting hour of tune and tales,” mentioned co-creator, government producer, author, and director Steven Canals. “Within the spirit of ‘Pose,’ our aim is to rejoice pleasure, love and, in fact, satisfaction, from our household to yours.”
Government producer, author, and director Janet Mock added, “Since we have been unable to shoot the present we love, we jumped on the likelihood to reunite our ‘Pose’ household and associate with the studio and community to boost spirits and consciousness in regards to the plight of LGBTQ+ individuals of coloration throughout such a turbulent time. This Satisfaction month particular is a commemoration of our forebears’ efforts, a memorial for trans lives misplaced, and a celebration of the life-saving work of LGBTQ+ organizations.”
“Pose-A-Thon” unites the voices behind the critically-acclaimed drama sequence “Pose,” that includes music and anecdotes from Porter, Rodriguez, Angel Bismark Curiel, Sandra Bernhard, Dyllón Burnside, Steven Canals, Dominique Jackson, Jeremy McClain, Janet Mock, Indya Moore, Our Girl J, Jason Rodriguez, Angelica Ross, Hailie Sahar, Ryan Jamaal Swain, Charlayne Woodard, and Patti LuPone. “Pose” supervising producer Tanase Popa serves as producer of the particular.
The particular occasion will encourage viewers to assist three of the numerous charitable LGBTQ+ organizations: GLSEN, Hetrick-Martin Institute, and Transgender Authorized Protection & Schooling Fund.
GLSEN envisions a world by which each youngster learns to respect and settle for all individuals, no matter sexual orientation, gender identification, or gender expression. Annually, GLSEN applications and assets attain hundreds of thousands of scholars and educators in Ok-12 colleges, through motion on the nationwide, state, and native degree. Over three a long time of labor, GLSEN has improved circumstances for LGBTQ+ college students throughout the US and launched a world motion to handle LGBTQ+ points in schooling and promote respect for all in colleges.
Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI) believes all younger individuals, no matter sexual orientation or identification, deserve a protected and supportive surroundings to realize their full potential. They provide fundamental and emergency assist, psychological well being counseling, job readiness coaching and humanities and tradition programming for hundreds of LGBTQ+ younger individuals and their households dwelling within the New York and New Jersey metropolitan space. HMI additionally companions with Home Lives Matter, a home-grown peer management and advocacy mission that promotes wellness, high quality of life, rights and resiliency amongst youth and adults within the Home Ball Group and mobilizes members from completely different Homes and areas throughout the U.S. round a shared advocacy agenda.
Transgender Authorized Protection & Schooling Fund is dedicated to ending discrimination based mostly upon gender identification and expression and to reaching equality for transgender individuals, notably these most pushed to the margins. They’re main the cost on various fronts with cutting-edge litigation to advance authorized precedent, offering life-changing authorized providers, and spearheading crucial initiatives just like the Trans Well being Undertaking to remodel the authorized panorama and defend the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals throughout the nation.
Beginning Monday, June 22, the general public can go to www.poseathon.com to be taught extra about every group and methods to get entangled.
Award-winning “Pose” is a drama spotlighting the legends, icons and ferocious home moms of New York’s underground ball tradition, a motion that first gained discover within the late 1980s. Making tv historical past, “Pose” options the most important forged of transgender actors in sequence common roles and likewise options the most important recurring forged of LGBTQ+ actors ever for a scripted sequence. New episodes from the third season of “Pose” coming quickly on FX.
“Pose” was co-created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals, who government produce alongside Janet Mock, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and Sherry Marsh. Our Girl J is co-executive producer. Tanase Popa is supervising producer. Lou Eyrich, Jeff Dickerson, and Kip Myers additionally function producers. The drama sequence is produced by Fox 21 Tv Studios, a division of Disney Tv Studios, and FX Productions.
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About Disney Tv Studios:
Disney Tv Studios includes of 20th Century Fox Tv, ABC Signature, ABC Studios and Fox 21 Tv Studios, and produces award-winning, culture-defining programming for all platforms together with This Is Us, Little Fires All over the place, Gray’s Anatomy, Homeland, Trendy Household, black-ish, Pose, American Horror Story, American Crime Story, and Godfather of Harlem. Disney Tv Studios presently produces greater than seventy sequence throughout 16 broadcast, cable, digital and worldwide platforms. Its programming now reaches greater than a billion individuals on a regular basis internationally; in as many as a 180 international locations, throughout six continents in 30 completely different languages.
About FX:
FX is the flagship normal leisure fundamental cable channel of FX Networks. Launched in June of 1994, FX is carried in 85 million houses. The various schedule contains a rising roster of critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit drama sequence together with Snowfall, Pose, Mayans M.C., Taboo and the upcoming Redeemer and Y: The Final Man; the critically-acclaimed restricted sequence American Horror Story, Fargo, American Crime Story, FEUD, Fosse/Verdon and the upcoming Shōgun, Nice Expectations and American Horror Tales; acclaimed hit comedy sequence together with Atlanta, Higher Issues, What We Do within the Shadows and Breeders; the half-hour sequence Mr Inbetween and the Untitled B.J. Novak Undertaking; a slate of docuseries and documentary options, together with The Weekly with The New York Instances, The Most Harmful Animal of All, and AKA Jane Roe; and the FX Unique Film A Christmas Carol. FX is the previous residence of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit drama sequence The Defend, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Damages, Sons of Anarchy, Justified and The People. The community’s library of acquired box-office hit films is unmatched by any ad-supported tv community.