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 Sunday Times, he who has long appeared on the red carpets in a 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 But beyond that, Billy Porter laments that the magazine has chosen a white and heterosexual man for this unpublished One.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, Vogue put Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a cover-up 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.
