Billy Porter Takes Aim At Harry Styles & Anna Wintour For Vogue Cover: “Your People Are Using My Community To Elevate You”

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Billy Porter is taking aim at Anna Wintour and Harry Styles following the cover of Vogue magazine where the “Watermelon Sugar” singer was featured wearing a dress.

In a new interview, Porter opened up about his feelings about Styles being the first solo male to grace the cover of the fashion magazine.

The Pose actor said he had talked to Wintour months before the cover with the former One Direction member was released but was taken aback by the magazine’s editor. “That b**** said to me at the end, ‘How can we do better?’ And I was so taken off guard that I didn’t say what I should have said,” Porter told The Telegraph later adding what he should’ve said, “Use your power as Vogue to uplift the voices of the leaders of this de-gendering of fashion movement … Six months later, Harry Styles is the first man on the cover.” Porter acknowledges that he doesn’t blame Styles for the decision to feature him on Vogue saying, “It’s not Harry Styles’s fault that he happens to be white and cute and straight and fit into the infrastructure that way … I call out the gatekeepers.” He continued by explaining why Styles was selected saying he’s “white and he’s straight.

That’s why he’s on the cover. Non-binary blah blah blah blah. No. It doesn’t feel good to me. You’re using my community – or your people are using my community – to elevate you.