Watch: Billy Porter Apologizes for Shading Harry Styles Over Vogue Cover

Billy Porter calling out Vogue magazine for choosing Harry Styles to be its first male cover star, and putting him in a dress as a straight man, was the shade heard around the gay world.

"I created the conversation [about non-binary fashion] and yet Vogue still put Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a dress on their cover for the first time," said Porter in a new interview with London's Sunday Times when the cover came out. "I'm not dragging Harry Styles, but he is the one you're going to try and use to represent this new conversation?"

Indeed, but gay Twitter wasn't feeling what Porter was pitching. Mainly, not only is he not the first one to start a conversation around non-binary fashion but he also won't be the last.

Now Porter is attempting to make amends with Styles about his style comments, reported US Magazine.

Appearing on the "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" on Thursday, Nov. 4, Ported pleaded, "Harry Styles, I apologize to you for having your name in my mouth."

It's not really about Styles, Porter explained. "The conversation is actually deeper than that. It is about the systems of oppression and erasure of people of color who contribute to the culture," he said. "I'm sorry Harry. I didn't mean no harm. I'm a gay man. We like Harry Styles, he's cute!"

Watch Porter's apology below.