Venture a few pages past the midway point of “Unprotected,” actor Billy Porter’s stirring new memoir, and you’ll discover the root of the introspective interrogation at hand. “It’s time to leave my past behind,” Porter writes. “My trauma has been my engine for my entire life, and I don’t want to be defined by my past anymore. It’s time to tell a different story. A story of healing.”
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