Q, a 26-year-old entertainer from Kansas Metropolis, Missouri on RuPaul’s Drag Race, has revealed she was identified as HIV-positive two years in the past.
“I’m doing one thing very sentimental for the runway at this time,” she mentioned earlier than Friday’s present. “It’s impressed by the era of homosexual those that we misplaced to the AIDS epidemic within the ’80s. So it’s actually, actually particular to me.”
Q needed to undergo a psychological strategy of coming to grips with the dianosis, initially struggling.
“Once I first acquired my prognosis I felt like actually misplaced and I felt, like, tremendous alone,” she mentioned. “I examined constructive once I was 24. I used to be largely scared about how I used to be going to be handled by household and folks round me who don’t perceive it, as a result of it’s so stigmatized.”
Some didn’t take the information effectively.
“You already know, folks have mentioned actually terrible and nasty issues to me and nearly de-humanizing me,” she recalled.
“It’s loopy how a lot folks with HIV should take care of. I’ve been handled in another way by like, well being care suppliers,” added Q. “I feel it’s so essential to have queer folks in well being care. You actually really feel that distinction in care between these suppliers.”
