I’m going to be 50 this year and was born right after in September. Janet Mock: You are covering the Summer of Pride issue, it’s the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion – what does that mean to you?īilly Porter: I feel like it’s so significant for me because I was actually born that year of the Stonewall Riots. Walking down 8th Avenue and “ready to jump right in,” Pose writer and trans activist Janet Mock speaks with her friend Billy Porter about making history, turning out the fashion, and discusses how their work today has a close connection to the lost generation of the HIV/AIDS crisis. They can’t do anything without someone judging their fashion choice in relation to how they’ll get cast.” And so, I looked at the landscape and saw that these men are straitjackets. You can’t play that masculine part anymore, and nobody will believe that you’ll fuck a woman anymore. One slip up and you’re a faggot, and you can’t be on that superhero show anymore. “Men are under this microscope from the moment you hit and everybody is looking to see if you slip up. ![]() “We have a construct in our society that certain things mean masculine and certain things mean feminine and you can’t cross those boundaries and not be marginalised or ostracised for it – silenced or dismissed for those things,” Billy says. Away from the television screen and on the red carpet, the actor has turned out lewks that almost, just almost, upstaged Lady Gaga recently at the 2019 Met Gala.īut alongside looking fierce and turning heads, the looks come with a hidden message from Billy: I am living my truth and your boundaries of masculine and feminine don’t belong anywhere near me. Recognised across the globe for his Emmy-nominated turn as Prey Tell, the experienced ballroom emcee who’s here to “teach the children”, it’s not just Billy’s turn on the show that’s got us all talking. ![]() “I want to be one of the people that is at the forefront.” ![]() I want to be the person,” proclaims actor Billy Porter as he crosses New York City the morning before a day on set for the second season of Ryan Murphy’s Pose. “I thought, ‘You’re a faggot, you can’t do that!’ But yes, I can.
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