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It would just be another way for people to discriminate against me in an already discriminatory profession.
So I tried to think about it as little as I could.
I tried to block it out.
But quarantine has taught me a lot.
Everybody was required to sit down and shut the fuck up.
He hopes that his diagnosis can help de-stigmatize the shame surrounding people living with HIV and AIDS.
Yes, I am the statistic, but Ive transcended it.
This is what HIV-positive looks like now.
Im going to die from something else before I die from that, Porter continued.
The truth is the healing.
And hope this frees me …
I survived so that I could tell the story.
Thats what Im here for.
