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.
