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Pose’s Billy Porter Reveals He’s HIV Positive 14 Years After Diagnosis: ‘I’m Doing This For Me’
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usmagazine.comSpeaking his truth. Billy Porter revealed he is HIV-positive on Wednesday, May 19, a diagnosis that he has kept private since 2007.The Emmy-winner, 51, opened up about his status to The Hollywood Reporter and explained that he kept the secret because he didn’t want to tell his mother.In 2007, Porter had gone to a clinic to get a pimple drained and was asked if he wanted a $10 HIV test.
The Tony winner took the offer, since he regularly got tested every six months. This time, the results were different, and he told most of his inner circle.“For a long time, everybody who needed to know, knew — except for my mother.
I was trying to have a life and a career, and I wasn’t certain I could if the wrong people knew,” Porter said.The actor, who
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