Billy Porter says "I am a free man" since revealing he's HIV positive

Entertainment Weekly

"I've been positive since 2007. And, you know, having lived through the AIDS crisis, it was heavy for me. It was a heavy year, 2007," the Pose star told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. "I lived with the shame of it for a really long time and last week I released that shame, I released that trauma and I am a free man, honey! Free! I've never felt joy like this before."