Billy Porter paid a touching tribute to his late mother as he accepted a special prize at the Tony Awards: Act One pre-show. The 54-year-old Broadway star was handed the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, a non-competitive philanthropic award for those who have helped one more more charitable organisation, and he used his time onstage at the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center in New York on Sunday (16.06.24) to honour his late mom, Cloerinda Jean Johnson Porter-Ford, who died in February aged 79. The teary-eyed actor-and-singer began: “I’d like to dedicate this moment to my mother, Cloeri…