{"id":3763,"date":"2018-04-02T01:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T08:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2018-04-02T01:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T08:28:42","slug":"hiv-anchor-comes-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/04\/02\/hiv-anchor-comes-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV+ Anchor Comes Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen headlines that an&nbsp;<em>ABC<\/em>&nbsp;on-air reporter came out as HIV-positive.&nbsp; Certainly the dashing&nbsp;<strong>Karl Schmid&nbsp;<\/strong>looks familiar in that way I can\u2019t quite place.&nbsp; I knew he was either a Facebook friend, someone I saw on TV, or someone I had sex with.&nbsp; Then I went through the archives on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and saw that two years ago, the irrepressible&nbsp;<strong>Carson Kressley&nbsp;<\/strong>was openly flirting with Karl post-<em>Oscars&nbsp;<\/em>and then&nbsp;<em>Tweeted&nbsp;<\/em>him an invitation to go out.&nbsp; Schmid is a 37-year-old Aussie who is on Los Angeles\u2019 local&nbsp;<em>ABC<\/em>&nbsp;affiliate.&nbsp; He says he\u2019s wanted to come out earlier, but \u201cindustry professionals said, \u2018Don\u2019t!&nbsp; It\u2019ll ruin you\u2019\u201d.&nbsp; So why now?&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m me.&nbsp; I\u2019m just like you.&nbsp; I have a big heart and I want to be loved and accepted.&nbsp; I may be on TV from time to time, but at the end of the day I\u2019m just an average guy who wants what we all want.&nbsp; To be accepted and loved by our friends and family and to be encouraged by our peers.&nbsp; Labels are things that come and go but your dignity and who you are is what defines you.&nbsp; I know who I am.&nbsp; I know what I stand for and while in the past I may not have always had clarity, I do now.&nbsp; Love me or hate me, that\u2019s up to you.&nbsp; But, for anyone who has ever doubted themselves because of those scary three letters and one symbol, let me tell you this, you are somebody who matters.\u201d&nbsp; Bravo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen headlines that an&nbsp;ABC&nbsp;on-air reporter came out as HIV-positive.&nbsp; Certainly the dashing&nbsp;Karl Schmid&nbsp;looks familiar in that way I can\u2019t quite place.&nbsp; I knew he was either a Facebook friend, someone I saw on TV, or someone I had sex with.&nbsp; Then I went through the archives on&nbsp;BillyMasters.com&nbsp;and saw that two years ago,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}