âIt wasnât a fear that [my status] was going to come out or that somebody was going to expose me; it was just the shame that it had happened in the first place. And as a Black person, particularly a Black man on this planet, you have to be perfect or you will get killed. But look at me. Yes, I am the statistic, but Iâve transcended it. This is what HIV-positive looks like now. Iâm going to die from something else before I die from that.â (source)
























