Billy Porter ‘turned life around’ by rejecting society’s expectations of masculinity
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metro.co.ukBilly Porter has opened up about the pressures of masculinity in a new interview.In fact, the star says it was only after ’taking myself out of the masculinity game’ that he began his journey to the success he enjoys today.He worked for years on Broadway and even released an album before finding global fame – and, in 2019, an Emmy – for TV show Pose.Speaking to the new issue of Essence magazine, the 50-year-old said: ‘My masculinity was in question from the moment I could comprehend thought.
I was never masculine enough by society’s standards to walk the earth.’After describing the homophobia he encountered early in his career, he said: ‘By taking myself out of the masculinity game, that literally turned my life around, and all of those.
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