Billy Porter has been the speak of the city this week after donning a showstopping dress-suit hybrid to the Tony Awards.
Customary out of the Kinky Boots curtain — sure, curtain — Porter’s Tony’s outfit featured a uterus motif as an announcement about girls’s reproductive rights.
Chatting with Stephen Colbert, Porter talked about social views in direction of males who put on attire — and what these views say about how society views girls.
“We have moved past the concept that girls carrying pants is an issue. Girls carrying pants is highly effective, it is sturdy, everyone accepts it, and it is related to the patriarchy, it is related to being male,” Porter defined.
“The minute a person places on a costume it is disgusting, so what are you saying? Males are sturdy, girls are disgusting? I am not doing that anymore.
“I am completed with that. I am a person in a costume and if I really feel like carrying a costume I am gonna put on one.”
Originally posted 2019-06-13 10:42:17.