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# InStyle Also Profiled Billy Porter in its April Issue
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/instyle-also-profiled-billy-porter-in-its-april-issue-03-2021/
- Published: 2021-03-19T18:00:05.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-18T21:27:36.000Z
- Description: And he is, as usual, great.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, InStyle, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:15

[Melissa McCarthy got the cover of April's *InStyle*](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/melissa-mccarthy-cheerfully-ushers-in-spring-on-the-april-cover-of-instyle-03-2021/), but don't sleep on the Billy Porter feature and spread inside of it, which also includes a lot of great photos. This one is so dramatic -- it's like Sexy Marilla Cuthbert riding a ferry from PEI to The Great Beyond, freeing the nipple the way she always longed to in life. I really hope that's how the photographer pitched it.

The piece expands on Billy's journey from theatre idol to fashion icon:

> **On the long-overdue conversation about genderless fashion*: “I used to get frustrated that women could wear whatever they wanted and men had to show up in the same penguin suit. The reason why women wearing pants is consid­ered OK by society’s standards is because it comes from the patriarchy. The patriarchy is male, so suits are strong, and anything feminine is weak. I was sick of that discussion, and I knew my platform allowed me to challenge it.” “I had been running from my feminine side for years because I* 
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> *was told that my queer­ness would be a liability in this business. And it was for decades—until it wasn’t.”*

He also talks about something I somehow missed when it happened -- maybe I lost it in the pandemic panic? -- which is, he appeared on *Sesame Street* [in his Siriano gown](https://www.gofugyourself.com/photos/dudes-of-the-2019-oscars/91st-annual-academy-awards-arrivals-los-angeles-usa-24-feb-2019-33?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) and an Arkansas state senator started an uproar that sparked a movement claiming that the show was trying to "sexualize children using drag queens":

> *"It was based on this idea that I'm coming to get their children because of the way I dress," says Porter, shaking his head. "What is that? I'm over here minding my own business. So why is it triggering you? At that moment, I was grateful that I am a man of a certain age, because when you become a certain age, zero f—s are given. I don't now, nor will I ever, adjudicate my life or my humanity in \[other people's\] sound bites or responses on social media. Simultaneously, it still hurts to have people come after me for nothing."*

If you think, "Well, you've shared the whole article," I have not -- [you should definitely read the whole thing](https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/billy-porter-fashion-evolution-interview?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), because he has so much more to say, including a lot about the continued evolution of his look and his style. I feel like any writer who gets the assignment to profile Billy Porter must be so DELIGHTED because you know you're going to get a lot of fantastic stories and thoughtful quotes that transcend being merely sound bites.

###### \[Photo by Robbie Fimmano; the April issue of InStyle is available on newsstands, on Amazon, and for digital download March 19\]