Billy Porter reviews 'Vogue' cover with Harry Styles

For Billy Porter, the December 2020 US Vogue cover featuring Harry Styles in a Gucci gown was nothing historic.

Certainly, never a single man had occupied the prestigious cover, and even less dressed in a dress, but that is not the question for the actor.

What annoys Billy Porter is seeing Harry Styles and the publication praised for breaking gender norms in a way that, he would like to remind you, is frankly reminiscent of his own.

“It was I, personally, who changed the game.

And it's not a question of ego, it's just a fact.

I was the first to do it, and now everyone is doing it, ”he said in an interview with The

, a longtime red carpet man in his dress.

But beyond that, Billy Porter laments that the magazine has chosen a white and heterosexual man for this unpublished One.

The fight of a lifetime

“I started the debate (about non-binary fashion) and yet

put Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a cover dress for the first time.

Me is my life.

I had to fight my whole life to get to that point where I could wear a dress to the Oscars and not get shot.

All he has to do is be white and straight, ”lamented Billy Porter.

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