Billy Porter causes waves at the “Cinderella” premier with his beautiful ensemble

DL please contribute to the OP’s cataract go fund me.

Such a brave clown he is.

Can’t stand her.

Are we allowed to ask if Billy Porter is a transvestite?

How is this any different from when Lady Gaga wore a meat dress to an awards show? The shock value wore off long ago, and the rest of us are just shrugging and saying "Uh-kay, wear that if you want."

He’s starting to get on my nerves.

Has he come out as non-binary yet? Changed his pronouns?

tricky to get comfortable in a theatre seat with those wings... and I wouldn't want to sit behind her and try to see the screen.

Wait! Is that a dude wearing a dress????!!!

Fairy! God, Mother!

Silly attention junkie.

Can someone explain why DL hates him so much?

Aren't we all tired of his act?

I can already tell it’s a snow queen.

Just. Go. Away.

The wings at the premier of playing the fairy godmother in the movie… so uninspired, so derivative.

This outfit would get a look down the nose and a curt “Do better” from Tim Gunn if he was still doing that thing.

we don't hate him, just tired of this queen's look at me act

Every time Billy Porter dresses up in a new outfit, a Republican father beats his gay son.

He's effeminate, flamboyant black eldergay. Of course, DL loathes him.

Love wins! Love is love! So brave

At least he's smiling.

R11, DL hates fem guys unfortunately.

I think he looks great, he and/or his designer have a great eye for cuts and balance, even when the overall look is deemed "too much" at first. If you have a good eye for red carpet style, you get it. I mean, just ask Glenn :)

I give it to Billy Porter to have carved out a specific place in Hollywood. He's the black guy who wears the dresses. Getting noticed in Hollywood is 90% of the battle.

Good for Billy!

"Look at me KWEEENNSS!! Look! LOOK MISS THANG!!! Look at ME!!! MEEEE!!!! Look! Ever'body LOOK AT ME!!! I'm FAMOUS* honey! LOOK AT MEE!!!!!"

R22 the GAY guy. He’s the GAY guy.

I think if you're a member of the generation that thinks getting attention is the be-all and end-all of life, you're impressed by this.

But the rest of us are more impressed by talent.

I love Billy 🤷

The Oscars tuxedo dress was great, it’s been downhill since.

[quote]I think he looks great, he and/or his designer have a great eye for cuts and balance, even when the overall look is deemed "too much" at first. If you have a good eye for red carpet style, you get it. I mean, just ask Glenn :)

R11, it isn't that he's "hated". People here used to adore him. He's just....disliked.. mostly because of people like R21 who bounce up and down and clap and scream "YASSS KWAANNE" at something someone with so much talent and who was an actual role model, but who now insists on being a minstrel and a caricature, a walking stereotype. Plus the fact he's become obnoxious and insufferable.

R11, you ever hear the thing about how you're not supposed to wear white to a wedding? It's because you're supposed to respect the person or people the event is supposed to be honoring. Porter doesn't care about that. Instead of being photographed for being himself, he is so self-loathing that he must costume and suck up ALL the attention on the red carpet, nearly assuring his fellow celebrities will be footnotes at the event, at best. That isn't empowering, it's greed and over self indulgence on display.

He’s just an asshole with wings.

Fraus eat this shit up with a spoon.

He's black and gay and successful and -- this is what really enrages Datalounge -- he's happy. Of course this site loves to tear him apart.

See the anger at R23? That's DL's reaction to happy gay men in a nutshell.

R30 Because they see a fellow frau in Billy?

He needs to get ecoli.

This attention whore again.

Enough with the dresses. You look fucking ridiculous.

I’m like, 50% good for him, 50% he looks like a fucking clown.

“Premier”? It must be said: oh, dear.

"It was your Premiere magazine with the letters cut out of it, wasn't it, Mrs. Ackerman?"

Camilla looks pissed he's stealing the attention away from her with that getup. I wonder if she called him the N-word later behind closed doors...

Seriously, get over yourself sweetie.

His hips look big in that whiteass skirt. Billy, you be fat!

I love his flamboyance. And that's what red carpet events were made for.

I love that he doesn’t care

My first thought, R20.

Exhausting — everything he does is a statement. He is becoming insufferable.

At 51 he's a bit old for that sorta thing.

Poor R31, so void of any ability to engage and must make it all about race in hopes of having somebody, anybody read her pithy comments.

Lil Nas X is flamboyant and I think he looks great. Billy is just old, ugly, and has a bad attitude. Regardless of what he wears.

Half dressed drag queen. Again.

Marianne Faithfull got more attention than this with a Mars bar. And she didn't need a PR company to do it.

Pearls from the Barbara Bush Collection.

[quote] How is this any different from when Lady Gaga wore a meat dress to an awards show?

Gaga was still in her twenties when she did that, and starting out on her career.

Billy is in his fifties and has been in the business for years. This constant bid for attention makes him look ridiculously childish.

Maybe he subconsciously dressed as the angel of death to warn others he can infect them with AIDS. Not to put too fine a point on it.

[quote]Is that a dude wearing a dress????!!!

I hope this was a joke, but knowing DL these days, it may very well NOT be.

He's a man in a dress. Nothing more, nothing less.

It's been done. We noticed the first time. Every time after was a bid for attention.

He should move on. So should we.

[quote] He's effeminate, flamboyant black eldergay. Of course, DL loathes him.

I don't loathe him but his style is off. That gown looks like something my aunt would wear to a church social.

Another ball, another costume.

The problem is he thinks he's Cinderella.

Jerry did it better.

I’ve watched all seasons of Pose and thoroughly enjoyed it. I almost did not watch it this year because of him. His constant need for attention is over the top. I doubt I will watch him in anything again or anything that he is in. He must have the best agent and PR person in Hollywood.

Jerry wore it better.

We are magic, we are powerful, we are divine. I dream of the day when an delusional asshole in a dress will be seen as just beautiful, conventional even, not exotic or inherently erotic.

This is why I hate us.

Why doesn’t she just go in for gender reassignment already?

She needs to cut it off and wear it around her neck.

Is the long cum rag in back to wipe up the stains that drip out as he walks the lavender carpet?

When her character in Pose, Prattle, died I was glad. One less narcissistic queen to deal withs.

Thirsty Transvestite Does WHAT?

Billy Porter is the poor man’s RuPaul Charles

Good lord. This thing is dreadful.

During the same event Cinderella ( Camila Cabello ) brought her very handsome and heterosexual prince charming . Love the hairy chest and nipples.

No, OP, it isn’t.

It’s quite hideous actually…

A hairy faced Bride of Frankenstein.

“Make a food hate on American black Billy to get up a good hate on American tranny. He are not to ware cloths like that for womens!!! Cloths like Boris ware for de mens only. Boris get three cabbage,picture of Putin in real wood frame, and goat to ride if gay make a good hate on tranny.”

He seems tiresome.

R75 What queen isn't tiresome... It comes with the territory!

DLers : Carping naysayers, pinched-face, small town biddies, shrieking harpies, bitter, unhappy resentful haters

R77 Porter gor Aids in his forties. He is so self obsessed he could not even use a condom. What a disaster he is.