Billy Porter Says Harry Styles 'Doesn't Care' About The Message Behind Non-Binary Fashion

Billy Porter is among a small percentage of people who were not thrilled with Harry Styles’iconic Vogue cover.

Last November, the former One Direction singer made HISTORY while posing as the first solo male to appear on the cover of Vogue. Not only that, he did so in a light blue dress with a Gucci jacket on top.

His gender-bending fashion had fans applauding him and others writhing with anger.

Shockingly, the “Pose” star was among the few writing with anger.

In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, the actor, who is known for rocking gorgeous gowns on every red carpet he steps on, feels Vogue did a disservice to the non-binary fashion world by featuring Harry on the cover.

"I feel like the fashion industry has accepted me because they have to. I'm not necessarily convinced and here is why," Porter told the outlet. “I created the conversation [about non-binary fashion] and yet Vogue still put Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a dress on their cover for the first time."

The Grammy-winner continued to explain why he feels using Harry on the cover missed the mark.

"I'm not dragging Harry Styles, but he is the one you're going to try and use to represent this new conversation? He doesn't care, he's just doing it because it's the thing to do. This is politics for me. This is my life,” Porter exclaimed. “I had to fight my entire life to get to the place where I could wear a dress to the Oscars and not be gunned now. All he has to do is be white and straight.”

Porter praises himself for single-handedly changing the game and conversation.

"I changed the whole game," he told The Sunday Times. "I. Personally. Changed. The. Whole. Game. And that is not ego, that is just fact. I was the first one doing it and now everybody is doing it."

In 2019, Porter rocked a Christian Siriano tuxedo gown which had never been done by a male attending the Oscars.

While Porter has his qualms with the monumental moment, Harry knows there were other ‘showmen’ with gender-bending fashion choices before him.

Last year he told Vogue, “The people that I looked up to in music—Prince and David Bowie and Elvis [Presley] and Freddie Mercury and Elton John—they're such showmen. As a kid it was completely mind-blowing. Now I'll put on something that feels really flamboyant, and I don't feel crazy wearing it."