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Billy Porter Reveals He’s Been HIV-Positive For 14 Years

Paul Bois
Billy Porter Reveals He’s Been HIV-Positive For 14 Years
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Actor Billy Porter, who will be playing the Fairy Godmother in Disney’s upcoming “Cinderella” adaptation, revealed this week that he has been HIV-positive since 2007.

In a lengthy interview with The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Porter said that being HIV-positive is no longer the death sentence like it was in the 1980s and that he will die of something else.

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