![]() ![]() She plays an activist nurse at Roosevelt Hospital during the height of the AIDS crisis. ![]() ![]() Renee, who has no teeth and a quantity of chin hair, eyed Bernhard up and down and told her, “You look different on television!” Bernhard is starring in the second season of “ Pose,” the Ryan Murphy drama about the gritty, glamorous world of transgender women and gay men who staged New York’s legendary drag balls. (She walks her dog, George, along the block daily.) “But, honey, you see me all the time,” Bernhard replied. They were in front of the stately brick Frederic Fleming House, on West Twenty-second Street, a residence for formerly homeless New Yorkers, where Renee has lived for sixteen years. “I miss seeing you on television!” an elderly woman named Renee squawked at her neighbor the actress, comedian, and singer Sandra Bernhard. Sandra Bernhard Illustration by João Fazenda ![]()
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