{"id":57128,"date":"2021-05-23T23:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T06:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=57128"},"modified":"2021-05-23T23:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T06:25:48","slug":"porter-goes-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/05\/23\/porter-goes-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Porter Goes Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Billy Porter <\/strong>just went public with a very personal story.&nbsp; He told <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> that he has been HIV-positive for the past 14 years.&nbsp; His silence was motivated by shame.&nbsp; \u201cI was the generation that was supposed to know better, and it happened anyway.\u201d&nbsp; It\u2019s a secret he kept from most people \u2013 including his mother.&nbsp; His reason?&nbsp; \u201cShe\u2019s not going to be here long, and then I\u2019ll write my book and come out and she won\u2019t have to live with the embarrassment of having an HIV-positive child.\u201d&nbsp; Her response surprised him.&nbsp; \u201cYou\u2019ve been carrying this around for 14 years?&nbsp; Don\u2019t ever do this again.&nbsp; I\u2019m your mother.&nbsp; I love you no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although <strong><em>Pose<\/em><\/strong> has wrapped, Porter is busier than ever.&nbsp; He\u2019s directing his first feature film called <strong><em>What If?<\/em><\/strong>, <em>Netflix <\/em>is doing a documentary about his life called <strong><em>Rise<\/em><\/strong>, and he\u2019s playing a gender-free Fairy Godparent in a remake of <strong><em>Cinderella<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; He\u2019s also joined the cast of the upcoming <em>Disney+ <\/em>animated series <strong><em>The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a reboot of <strong><em>The Proud Family<\/em><\/strong>, which ran on the <em>Disney Channel <\/em>from 2001-2005.&nbsp; Porter joins the original cast alongside <strong>Zachary Quinto<\/strong>, who plays his partner.&nbsp; It\u2019ll hit the air in early 2022, but we\u2019ve got photos of their characters on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Porter just went public with a very personal story.&nbsp; He told The Hollywood Reporter that he has been HIV-positive for the past 14 years.&nbsp; His silence was motivated by shame.&nbsp; \u201cI was the generation that was supposed to know better, and it happened anyway.\u201d&nbsp; It\u2019s a secret he kept from most people \u2013 including<\/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-57128","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\/57128","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=57128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57137,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57128\/revisions\/57137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}