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Billy Porter couldn’t ‘be who he is’ due to homophobia

Billy Porter has insisted the music industry has “always” been homophobic.

The 53-year-old singer-and-actor insisted it hasn’t always been easy to “just be” who he is as he wouldn’t have been accepted in the earlier days of his career.

When asked about his success, he told Gay Times magazine: “Everybody says ‘just be who you are!’ It’s easy to be who you are when who you are is what’s popular.

I’ve always been queer; it’s always been a homophobic business. Period. The end.”

The ‘Pose’ actor found recording his latest album, ‘Black Mona Lisa’ to be truly “healing” and he’s very proud of the record.

He said: “Putting together this album after a life’s work has been really healing, inspiring and one of the things I am most proud of in my whole life.”

The singer also revealed that the original idea for the album was to create something that was similar to Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance’, which was a homage to dance, disco, house and club culture because of his own background.

He said: “I found a home in the clubs. It was a gay church.

“It was the space we went to on the weekends to have community, love one another and recharge for the rest of the fight. We were fighting for our rights, we were fighting to stay alive.

“It was the last time pre-AIDS that the world was free.”

And Billy believes disco was unfairly vilified in the 1980s.

He said: “If we think about the sexual and cultural freedom of the 1960s and 1970s, we were on a road to a euphoric society, and then AIDS happened. Disco took the hit.

“Whether subconsciously or consciously, it was blamed and lumped into that plague era and dismissed unduly.”

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