“Yes I am surprised, but I’m very happy for it,” Dominique Jackson, 44, told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY about Pose‘s success at the Writers Guild Awards in New York City on Saturday, February 1. “Because I never thought that… you see when people talk about being gay or lesbian, a lot of people are like, ‘Okay, I can deal with that.’ And when they talk about, ‘okay, you’re a drag queen, okay I can deal with that’.