Nearly four years after his history-making Emmy win, Billy Porter is set to portray a pioneering figure in the Black queer community.

According to The Hollywood Reporter , the Pose actor will star as author and civil rights activist James Baldwin in a forthcoming biopic. The film will be an adaptation of David Leemings 1994 book James Baldwin: A Biography, featuring a script written by Porter and Dan McCabe.

As a Black queer man on this planet with relative consciousness, I find myself, like James Baldwin said, in a rage all the time. I am because James was, Porter told Variety in a statement Wednesday. I stand on James Baldwins shoulders, and I intend to expand his legacy for generations to come.

A New York City native, Baldwin rose to fame in the 1950s and 60s with passionate essays that touched on racial discrimination, sexuality and masculinity. He died in 1987 at the age of 63.

These days, hes best remembered for his era-defining novels Notes of a Native Son, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and If Beale Street Could Talk, which was adapted by Barry Jenkins into an Oscar-winning film in 2018.