The actress
and singer, who plays Mother Blanca Evangelista on FX's groundbreaking
series Pose is finally getting some much-deserved recognition
from the Emmy Awards! Rodriguez made history today when she became the first
trans actor to be nominated in the Lead Actor or Actress categories.
Previously,
the show and cisgender star Billy Porter had scored nominations and a win, but the trans actors on the
show had been shut out. Porter became the first Black gay man to win an acting Emmy in
2019. Many had been calling for award shows to give some recognition
to its trans stars, and finally, we’ve been listened to.
Rodriguez
becomes the third out trans actor to be nominated for an acting Emmy. Last
year, actress and filmmaker Rain Valdez received a nomination for Outstanding
Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for Razor Tongue.
Previously,
Laverne Cox made history when she was the first-ever out trans actor nominated
for an Emmy when she got a nod for playing trans inmate Sophia Burset in
Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black. Cox was also nominated again in
2017, and won a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer of the documentary Laverne
Cox Presents: The T Word.
Other previous
trans nominees include Chaz Bono for producing the documentary Becoming
Chaz in 2011, and Joanna Fang, who won an Emmy for Outstanding Sound
Editing for Nonfiction Programming for the documentary Cartel Land.
In 2016, the web series Her Story, starring Jen Richards and
Angelica Ross and co-executive produced by Richards was nominated for
Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.
Writers Janet
Mock and Our Lady J also scored Emmy noms this year in the Outstanding Writing
for a Drama Series category. The two trans writers are nominated alongside Ryan
Murphy, Steven Canals, and Brad Falchuk for writing the series finale.
Pose has also scored nominations this year in the Outstanding Drama
category, Outstanding Lead Actor for Billy Porter, and Best Director for Canals
for the series finale.
Rodriguez is
joined in the category by Uzo Aduba, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Moss, Jurnee
Smollett, and another queer actress, Emma Corrin.
We’ll have to
wait until Sunday, September 19 on CBS to find out who wins.
SOURCE: OUT DOT COM
How exciting. Looking forward to watching the new season... I am hella behind.
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