Billy Porter on why Harry Styles' Vogue Cover is an insult to LGBTQ+
Billy Porter has a new message about Harry Styles' Vogue magazine cover: "You’re using my community — or your people are using my community — to elevate you."
Billy Porter is still offended by Harry Styles' 2020 Vogue Cover. Two years ago, Vogue Magazine ran a cover of Harry Styles wearing skirts and dresses.
Billy, who is gay, says he was shocked that Vogue would use Harry Styles in a dress when there are people in the LGBTQ+ community who would have been better suited.
“[He’s] straight and white," Billy told Telegraph in a recent interview.
He said Harry being on the cover doesn't feel good to him.
"That’s why he’s on the cover. Non-binary blah blah blah blah. No. It doesn’t feel good to me," he added.
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"You're using my community — or your people are using my community — to elevate you," Billy said.
"You haven't had to sacrifice anything."
He also spoke about the conversation he had with the editor-in-chief of the magazine at the time, Anna Wintour.
"That bi**h said to me at the end, 'How can we do better?'" he said. "And I was so taken off guard that I didn't say what I should have said."
However, the media personality says given another chance to answer that question, he would have said: "Use your power as Vogue to uplift the voices of the leaders of this de-gendering of fashion movement."
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