Billy Porter Breaks a 14-Year Silence: "This Is What HIV-Positive …
May 19, 2021. Billy Porter takes a long deep breath. “I have to start in 2007,” he says, having settled in across the table. He’s here, at Little Owl in the West Village, to get something off...
Billy Porter reveals he’s been living with HIV for years - CNN
May 19, 2021 · Billy Porter made history by winning an Emmy in 2019 for his role as Pray Tell, a character who is HIV-positive, on the FX series “Pose.” Now Porter has shared that he’s been drawing on his...
Billy Porter: 'It actually does matter when I win an award'
Sep 9, 2024 · Being a gay, Black, HIV positive star of a certain age (54, to be precise), Porter is frequently called on as a celebrity spokesperson for the marginalised and misunderstood. Yet he is first and foremost an entertainer, and a formidable, multi-hyphenate one at that.
'Pose' actor Billy Porter opens up in the new memoir 'Unprotected' : NPR
Oct 19, 2021 · Fourteen years after his initial diagnosis, the Pose actor revealed publicly that he is HIV-positive. Porter says being open about his health status felt like a rebirth. His new memoir is...
'The truth is the healing': Pose actor Billy Porter breaks silence on ...
May 19, 2021 · Billy Porter has broken his silence over his HIV diagnosis, saying he told nearly no one for 14 years out of shame and fear of retaliation and marginalization in his industry.
Billy Porter: Pose actor says he's been living with HIV for 14 years - BBC
May 19, 2021 · Pose actor Billy Porter has revealed he has been living with HIV for the past 14 years. The US star was diagnosed in 2007 but said he had since "lived with that shame in silence".
'Being a Black queer man, I'm really not supposed to be here': Billy ...
Nov 16, 2023 · “My first album came out in 1997, Billy Porter, and the R&B music industry was violently homophobic at the time. ... The good news is, [due to the strike] I have had time to really focus on [the ...
Billy Porter details the stories behind the songs on his album ... - NPR
Nov 20, 2023 · Billy Porter just released a new album on his own terms --- with songs that often serve as little autobiographies — called Black Mona Lisa. Porter says it took years for his career to recover.
'Pose' actor Billy Porter announces he's been living with ... - ABC News
May 19, 2021 · "Pose" actor Billy Porter revealed in a new interview he's been living with HIV for 14 years, having found out he was positive in 2007.
Billy Porter: Pose actor says he's been living with HIV for 14 …
May 19, 2021 · Pose actor Billy Porter has revealed he has been living with HIV for the past 14 years. The US star was diagnosed in 2007 but said he had since "lived with that shame in silence".