Billy Porter comes out as HIV-positive after 14 years: “The truth is the healing.”

Billy Porter – New York Pride, 30 June 2019
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Billy Porter has come out as HIV-positive, revealing that he’s been living with the virus for the last 14 years.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that was released Wednesday, the Emmy-award winning actor, who plays “Pray Tell” on FX’s Pose, speaks candidly about the shame he’s experienced since seroconverting, and how he’s overcome it to find the courage to speak out.

“The truth is the healing,” he said.

“I was the generation that was supposed to know better, and it happened anyway,” Porter told THR. “It was 2007, the worst year of my life. I was on the precipice of obscurity for about a decade or so, but 2007 was the worst of it. By February, I had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. By March, I signed bankruptcy papers. And by June, I was diagnosed HIV-positive.”

Porter went on to recall that he wanted to…

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