Billy Porter’s opening up about being HIV-positive for the first time.
Billy Porter is HIV-positive — something he’s known since 2007 when he was first diagnosed, but he’s opening up about it now because, as he says… « The truth is healing. » The « Pose » star says after his HIV was first detected 14 years ago, shame and fear drove him to keep it a secret… especially while trying to make it in an industry he says hasn’t always been kind to him. Porter, in an essay for The Hollywood Reporter, says… « I was trying to have a life and a career, and I wasn’t certain I could if the wrong people knew.
