Billy Porter is the First Gay Man Featured on Cover of ‘Essence’ Magazine

Billy Porter
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Pose star, Broadway icon, fashion muse, and recording artist Billy Porter is featured on the Jul/Aug 2020 cover of Essence, making him the first gay man in the magazine’s history to appear as a cover model.

My masculinity was in question from the moment I could comprehend thought,” Porter told Essence. “I was never masculine enough by society’s standards to walk the earth. … It took years of me vomiting up the filth that I was told about myself, and halfway believed, before I could walk around on this earth like I deserve to be here. “

Added Porter: “I’m very…

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