Pose features the largest cast of trans actresses of any scripted series in history.
MJ Rodriguez and Billy Porter use their real singing voices. Both have experience in musical productions.
Paris is Burning director Jennie Livingston is credited as consulting producer. The film was a critically acclaimed documentary about the Ball Culture in New York fictionalized in Pose.
Frederica Norman, the property tycoon played by Patti LuPone, is loosely based on Leona Helmsley, an American businesswoman who earned the nickname "The Queen of Mean," and was convicted of tax evasion.
The Peer, Indochine, and The Hellfire Club are real landmarks in New York. Indochine is still open to this day and has a dress code. The restaurant catered to high profile customers like models, designers, actors, and artists in the 1980s, employing queer people to cover the door.