Billy Porter is everything wrong with the gay community

Straight people get to be cringy. No one says that makes them a bad representative of their community.

if straight women can be political lesbians, maybe you can be a political conservative?

Yeah, Billy...no.

r3 He's just learned from the mistakes of Gene Anthony Ray. He's going to ride that unicorn until peta complains.

Always wonder how Billy's husband feels when Billy runs his ugly mouth on whites.

Add Rupaul and Todderick Hall to that list as well. Now, that I’ve said that it all sounds racist, but I think Little Nas X, Frank Ocean and Tyler the Creator and visual artist Kahinde Wiley are doing some very amazing things by comparison.

OP is everything wrong with the gay community. A racist Republican who accuses black people of being racist. Whining about men wearing dresses like a homophobic straight person.

R7 Because only white people can be racist?

There are gay men who are serial killers, gay men who preach against gays from the pulpit. Gay male politicians who vote against gay rights. But Billy Porter is the one you choose to focus on?

R7 R9 You go with that hypocritical deflection, gurls! Yaaaaassssss!

r8, no, but I know that white Republicans like you and OP to say racist things against black people while insisting that black people are the real racists.

In a world full of gay men like this, Billy Porter is the one you focus on:

In a world full of gay men like this, Billy Porter is the one you choose to focus on:

In a world full of gay men like this, Billy Porter is the one you choose to focus on:

He's directing and appearing in The Life at Encores! next week. I'm going and I'm really curious to see it, but I'm not sure why the blurb about this production says Billy Porter is reclaiming The Life. Why does he get to reclaim something that wasn't ever his?

I think Rupaul is a closet terf. I refuse to believe he is all in on this craziness.

R8 Let’s unpack what you just said.

1. If I say something critical of Billy Porter for the way he acts and his hypocrisy, that must make me a racist right? Because according to you, black people are above any kind of criticism by mere virtue of the color of their skin.

2. If I’m not super far left woke, then I must be a Republican, right? It’s not like there is such a thing as a moderate, middle of the road liberal who can see through the bullshit.

[Quote] Billy Porter is reclaiming The Life. Why does he get to reclaim something that wasn't ever his?

In the black community, "the life" is also a term for "the gay lifestyle."

r8 or perhaps it's a reflection on the african american and greater black community that doesn't allow open space for masculine black gay men (or butch women to a lesser degree) but does allow for those with too much sugar in their tank but gay is still one of those words you dare not say... it's one of the many words that comes to mean white acting. While the black masculine archetype that dabbles in the lust that dare not speak its name is instead held up for the reason why so many black women have died of aids. And by no means, is this limited to black communities but numerous minority communities that reserve conservative politics within progressive circles. There is greater disdain for white liberals than there are for white conservatives.

r16 he is. . . but he's also a soured misfit on par with Devine who got upset when their minstrel acts became their only schtick when they couldn't cut it as real actors. But Ru was always more club kid than drag queen. . . shock value over substance. and just an outright cuthroat shady bitch.

Billy is sanctimonious and loud-mouthed as fuck. He literally invites criticism, but now some resident DL genderfemmes or whatever get their feathers all ruffled at the sight of criticism?

I think he spent so many years working hard yet failing that he became at best cynical and at worst deranged. I think he knows that he's run out of gimmicks. Pose ended. Kinky Boots had it's moment. He's so 2019, and it's 2022.

I haven't seen a single episode of "Pose." Billy Porter is not hard to avoid, especially if you have no interest in red carpet pics.

R19 A drag queen was doing his makeup while ru and that Michelle bitch were talking shit about him and rue said he only kept him on the show because he was a cute boy. He wanted to tell him to gtfo but because he was producer he let it go.

He's not interesting, at all. He doesn't deserve a thread. Let alone the attention/oxygen people give this nobody.

I always get him and Billy Eichner mixed up. It's because they're both annoying cunts.

Billy can certainly be annoying and sanctimonious and obnoxious...but this sounds like just another 'let's point the finger at those kinds of gays that make us look bad' gripe. And not surprisingly, it's always the same type. Aren't we past this shit by now?

At this point I'm rather curious, what kind of gay man, let alone gay public figure, passes the highest of standards DL holds...?

[Quote] what kind of gay man, let alone gay public figure, passes the highest of standards DL holds...?

Anyone who does pass DL's standards doesn't for long. The bitchery always arrives.

r27 true that

but

r26 the ones that hold out the longest tend to be those that either keep quiet about their personal politics and just write a check rather than just showing up for publicity photos while claiming how much they've suffered and are still suffering, and how you need to cash out your guilt on his biz.

it's more a disdain for today's brand of celebrites that market themselves as if they were pitiful causes in need of charity. Now to the famously challenged men, most gays offer an alternative.. such as sleeping on a mat in their kitchen, doing some chores and sucking a lot of dick while they get their acts together and pursue their goals with the help of a grizzled mentor, before they're inevitably replaced by another even more needy trick.

now the real question is why do you think Mr. Porter needs a savior like you?

Remember the time he yelled at me on a televised round table for "being straight while playing gay/bi roles"?

He didn't yell. Nor did he specifically address Madden.

He certainly did raise his voice and spoke quite harshly, and he did specifically address the small group of men he was talking to, which included Madden. Don't be obtuse.

[quote] now the real question is why do you think Mr. Porter needs a savior like you?

R28 Why the fuck would I want to be a "savior" for someone I said is " annoying and sanctimonious and obnoxious"?

Billy is an embarrassment to the community. I cannot stand him!!!!

[Quote] He certainly did raise his voice and spoke quite harshly,

Mary!

[quote]Billy Porter is not hard to avoid

But having strong feelings about minor celebrities is how I demonstrate my manliness!

I think it’s kind of fabulous that he shows up in these wild fashions. If that’s all he was known for, he wouldn’t annoy me at all. I also don’t care about his opinions on race or who plays gay roles. What annoys me is the praise, even Emmys! he gets as an actor. THAT is what has turned me off about him—I think he is a huge ham and an unappealing actor to watch. I thought he was terrible on Pose—but so was everyone else on that show.

When it comes to acting, Billy Porter is just a bad Jennifer Lewis impersonator.

OP sounds TRIGGERED.

PrePose I had much respect for Billy Porter, but that’s how seemed to unleash things in him that are very unattractive, and he didn’t even play one of the cross dressers, who were really the main characters of the show, yet he seemed to have the need to out diva them all.

Billy's husband must be a masochist or a martyr for woke cause. It is as if a straight man married a radical man hating feminist, who is bitching all day long how man have oppressed women throughout the history and still are the cause of all their suffering.

His husband is white of course.

What I find most inane are his oft-self-quotes comments about [bold]GAWWWD[/bold] being behind some master plan for his career. "Gawwwwd" did not make you fail that audition, grrl.

Please stop the nonsense of "Straight actors cannot play gay". FFS, it's called "acting."

I thought that for a minute. But have come to respect him. Yeah - playing the drama Queen card. But girl has gone through some rough stuff and has persevered in the industry despite being a femme black queen. I give her props. We’re still here - goddamnit. Congrats!

r40 it's the grift of being in the niche. "ignore the white man behind the curtain"

if you go through the doors that open, you're chained to the image they want for you. . .

and he's competing with many, many, many queens.

so, he has to be not only full on minstrel show but hold up the politics that provide the counterweight to it.

r42 it's obligatory, if you're black or latino, so you can maintain a share of that audience and larger networking. to be just black and gay is to be deemed white by the stronger undercurrents of the community.

a funny bit, tho, he wasn't always so flamboyant.

But reality plays out like when Ru tried to transition into actor after gaining mainstream success as a club kid, original character female impersonator, drag queen or whatever mishmash ladyboy category we have for it now. -- it failed. RuPaul in dress is his only success while throwing around g-d gave him a way back in to the black community. Which, again, accepts flamboyant queens more than masculine gay men. But this correlates to the black community being heavily frau dominated. The need to be non-threatening.

similar issues follow in other communities with a lot of male maschimo. . . and where gay men are portrayed as either predators or clowns.

Billy and Hubby on Oscar night

The husband is very proud. Well, better Billy than Jada. Maybe Billy is not offering his hole around.

Billy Porter is everything right with the gay community

FIFY

Billy looks like Jada at r46

OP starts about a dozen of "feigned outrage" threads against LGBTQ+, blacks, liberals every day on DL.

Well, fuck her and her cuntwhore mother too.

Billy is kinda cute on photo at R46

He seemed kind of bitchy when he was being presented with an award at the Oscars.

Porter is unwatchable.