This is from “Pose” (2018- ), from the sixth episode, the one written and directed by Janet Mock. Blanca Evangelista (Mj Rodriguez) and Pray Tell (Billy Porter) sing “Home” from “The Wiz” to AIDS patients at a New York City hospital in 1987. That was back when AIDS was a death sentence. One of the patients is Pray Tell’s boyfriend. Both Blanca and Pray Tell know that they are HIV-positive, that they will likely someday get AIDS too.
The sound quality is not great. It is the best version I can find so far.
“Suddenly the raindrops that fall they have a meaning”
I do not know how good this song seems without the context of the rest of the show, but the same could be said of the Diana Ross version in “The Wiz” (1978). In both cases it was powerful in context, the “Pose” one more so. It underscored Blanca’s belief that love is the most important thing in life. Blanca and Pray Tell have been separated from their birth homes not by a tornado but because they are queer (trans and gay, respectively).
It is one of the best scenes in “Pose” so far, but Janet Mock had to fight to get it included!
Rodriguez and Porter both come from the world of Broadway and “Home” is a Broadway song.
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Lyrics:
When I think of home, I think of a place
Where there’s love overflowing
I wish I was home, I wish I was back there
With the things I’ve been knowing
Wind that makes the tall grass bend into leaning
Suddenly the raindrops that fall they have a meaning
Sprinkling the scene
Makes it all so clean
Maybe there’s a chance for me to go back
Now that I have some direction
It sure would be nice to be back at home
Where there’s love and affection
And just maybe I can convince time to slow up
Giving me enough time in my life to grow up
Time be my friend
And let me start again
Suddenly my world is gone, changed its face
Bit I still know where I’m going
I have had my mind spun around in space
And yet I’ve watched it growing
And oh, if you’re listening, God, please don’t make it hard
To know if we should believe the things that we see
Tell us should we run away or should we try and stay
Or will it be better just to let things be
Living here in this brand new world
Might be a fantasy
But it’s taught me to love (taught me to love)
So it’s real (it’s real) So real (So real) So real
And I’ve learned that we must look
Inside our hearts to find
A world full of love
Like yours, like mine
Like home
Abagond 
I’ve watched five episodes of it to make an opinion and to understand why you could be interested in this apart from the things you’ve wrote. Not to write an elaborate SWAT summary, just to list some pros and cons.
The things I liked about that show;
1.1. The underground life as it is. Not to give any support to the lbgt nonsense,but the story could be watched as a picture of any underground worlds: people leaving their bloodline families to joyn their families of spirits. They enter in, live in it, competing, achieving their dreams and dying. In this way, the story would be not different from a story of St. Petersburg poetic underground in Russia or Samba schools in Sao Paolo,
1.2. The Ifa archetypes and the African aesthetics. The ‘houses’, the ‘mothers’, the rivalry, the controversies, the colours and even the names of the characters in a little bit Gogol-like style, they are nice to perceive. I like watching archetype deities, especially of those with African roots.
1.3. The spirit of struggle. An underground life is hard enough by itself, but being
1.4. The scent of death and decay. It is always useful to keep in mind the final dissolution of one’s vital energy and physical body.
1.5. The omnipresent ISFP-personality type, which seems to come from that of Canals.
The things I disliked about the show:
2.1. The positioning of lbgt ‘sexual’ practices as ‘a kind of norm’ or ‘a pleasure’, which is again my religious values, therefore it sounds as a nonsense to me.
2.2. The travesty. I mean, a man ‘whose head is owned by Olokun’. or by Inle, is OK. A man ‘whose head is owned by Yemaya’ (as it seems to be the case with Steven Canals, or with a spin-off character from Oz, the Adebisi’s brother) is, at his best, nothing but a travesty. Or a lie, an impure and improper one.
2.3. The wrong concept of struggle and obtrusive queer political rhetoric. Let’s make it clear: politics are about power, and sex is about love. To mix sex and power – and this is what the people supporting the ‘lbgt rights’ nonsense are doing – is to support violence. Rainbow is not ‘A New Black’, it’s a New Grey Brown.
2.4. The support of lbgt. Being gay is not just about ‘men loving men’, it’s more about ‘men hating women’. Consequently, being pink is not just about ‘women loving women’, it’s more about ‘women hating men’. Their ‘supporters’ don’t support love, they support hate.
2.5. The eighties (I’m more into sixties) and most of the music from that time, the disco and the break dance, they make me sick.
2.6. The attempt to overturn the conceptual bases and biases, like ‘trans-women are the only real women’ (here’s a polite nod to all the old theaters of the worlds from the Old English Kingdom to Japan), or ‘becoming a queer person is to listen to one’s intuition’, or ‘we trans-people are not jokes’, etc.
From my point of view, trans women are poor beings under control of their delusions and self-hate, and ‘becoming a queer’ is to break a natural state of sexual energy.
And the mic is passing to–
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I binge watched the first season of Pose last night and it was such a wonderful treat. I have become so invested in the characters. I especially love Blanca who is played with so much sweetness by Mj Rodriguez and the extraordinary Billy Porter in this very touching episode. I actually cried listening to this it was so beautiful. I love this show and can’t wait for the second season.
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