Billy Porter on his problem with Harry Styles and ‘that b----’ Anna Wintour
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- Pop Base (@PopBase) August 12, 2023
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Harry covered Vogue Nov 2020 wearing a Gucci dress
Billy Porter was not happy with that cover then and is still talking about it now
he head a meeting with Anna Wintour sometimes in 2020
“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.”
[Which was?] “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.”
“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.”
[Harry is] “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. You haven’t had to sacrifice anything.”