Billy Porter Breaks His Silence About Being HIV-Positive After 14 Years
Billy Porter has broken his silence about what it has been like to live with HIV for 14 years after being diagnosed with the disease. The actor revealed the shame he felt, leading him to hide his condition from people with whom he worked, or was close, including his mother. The actor was diagnosed with HIV in 2007 and decided to keep quiet about it because he feared “marginalization and retaliation in an industry that hasn’t always been kind to him,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. Porter plays an HIV-positive character, Pray Tell, in the FX show Pose. He says he has used his character “as his...