'People's rights, people's humanity continues to be up for legislation, which is ridiculous. We've seen this before.' Billy Porter tells TheView history is repeating itself in America for LGBTQ community:
Award-winning performer and fashion icon Billy Porter is known to captivate an audience with ease, but this time, he captured the audience with a warning about America's future.
"As artists, we get to – in a creative way – pull people into these stories, pull people into these journeys, these things that happened in the past that relate to what's happening right now," he said. "I stand on the shoulders of slaves. I know what it looks like; I know what that is," he said."Love still always wins. I might not be with you when we make it to the mountain top, but we gonna get there."
"Women wearing pants is not a problem – anymore. It used to be, but it's not a problem. We moved through that because pants are strong. They're considered strong; they're considered powerful; they are associated with the patriarchy," Porter continued."However, when a man wears a dress, very often people are disgusted."
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