Billy Porter is over wearing the LGBTQ rainbow colors
Billy Porter wore the ubiquitous rainbow colors as a sash as he lead the Pride parade through Manhattan on Sunday as one of its grand marshals. But he says he’s getting bored of the multi-colored motif.
“I’m trying to find a rainbow without being the rainbow. I’m sort of over the rainbow but I like the rainbow. It’s a love-hate relationship with the rainbow, with the colors,” the actor and activist told Page Six. “Because we have [had] to wear it for so many years,” he added, “It’s like, ‘Damn, can we wear something else now? Do I have to wear the colors? Can I just show up in something cute?”The Grammy Award winner served as a Grand Marshall for the 2023 Pride parade.In 2019 the “Pose” star stole the show at the Pride parade when he dressed in a custom high-necked Christian Siriano gown made from a rainbow of tulle fabric. .
In 2019 the “Pose” star stole the show in a custom high-necked Christian Siriano gown made from a rainbow of tulle fabric., 53, also told us that the annual event must return to its roots as a show of strength. Porter told us he first attended Pride back in 1989 and that it has become “a big party.” But, amid a swath of new anti-LGBT legislation across the US, and “we need to get back to the protest.”“When I joined the movement, Pride was about protest,” he said, “Then for many years we worked and achieved our goals. But now the party took over and now we got to get back to the protest.”AFP via Getty Images
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