'Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness Says
He Is a 'Member of the
Beautiful H.I.V.-Positive Community'
Time,
by
Madeleine Carlisle
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
9/21/2019 3:12:36 PM
Jonathan Van Ness, the 32-year-old star of Netflix’s Queer Eye, shared that he is H.I.V. positive in a powerful interview with the New York Times on Saturday.
He said that he hopes he can bring attention to misperceptions about being H.I.V. positive, saying that he is healthy and a proud “member of the beautiful H.I.V.-positive community.”
Van Ness revealed to the Times’ Alex Hawgood that he was sexually assaulted when he was a child, and explained that “[f]or a lot of
Reply 1 - Posted by:
columba 9/21/2019 3:28:08 PM (No. 185797)
In essence he is admitting that he has placed a part of his body in a place or places where the part is not designed to enter, or that he has allowed someone else to do such. I really do not think we should admit such sin in mixed company.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 9/21/2019 3:37:07 PM (No. 185815)
How can he say he's healthy if he's HIV positive?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 9/21/2019 3:41:19 PM (No. 185821)
H.I.V. has been in the public realm since 1981, Jonathan. You're not going to tell us anything we don't already know. Embrace it if you wish but we know how you got it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 9/21/2019 3:52:16 PM (No. 185830)
Sick in the head, sick morally, and sick physically. Sad case.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Cindiana 9/21/2019 3:59:10 PM (No. 185839)
Now we'll have to call it beautiful?!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 9/21/2019 4:11:59 PM (No. 185848)
If it's so beautiful, why didn't you expose yourself years ago?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/21/2019 4:27:46 PM (No. 185861)
If he's HIV-positive, he's not healthy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Wary American 9/21/2019 4:33:06 PM (No. 185867)
JUST PUNISHMENT...Oh when God returns...will not just be HIV that will become an ETERNAL, but FIRE.
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He has a need to talk about his self inflicted troubles and I have a need to not listen.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 9/21/2019 4:58:19 PM (No. 185889)
My mother, then, was part of the "beautiful cancer community." What an idiot.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rochow 9/21/2019 5:12:40 PM (No. 185911)
Hmm, is the Obamination 'coming out' as well????
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/21/2019 5:48:44 PM (No. 185935)
I have a beautiful sunburn from being out on the boat all day yesterday. Want to give it a good slap? Gay is the biggest lie in the country and everything that goes with it is a sickness. Why not just shout out that you are dying of AIDS?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chillijilli 9/21/2019 6:28:07 PM (No. 185957)
Oh, cripe. We can't just have LGBQT anymore?
Now we have to have a. specialized SUBCATEGORY called "the beautiful H.I.V.-positive community?"
Wow! The pathetic guy with the swirling hair has now found a way to get 2 social identities for the price of 1.
I predict that pretty soon a "LGBQT Beautiful HIV-Postive Community for People of Color" will pop up and our friend Jonathan Van Ness will be denied membership. Uh oh. If that happens, he may go mad.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bamboozle 9/21/2019 7:40:16 PM (No. 185994)
How many people has this selfish evil guy exposed to HIV? He has chosen to celebrate perversion and death and to take others with him.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
kbcama 9/21/2019 7:49:03 PM (No. 186000)
I was sexually abused by a couple of my mom’s boyfriends when I was young. I’m nearly 70 and never have done drugs or been promiscuous because of the trauma. I did pray about it and learn about it.....guess I did it wrong???
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PostAway 9/21/2019 8:05:23 PM (No. 186007)
HIV/AIDS has been around since before this man was born and it’s causes well-known his entire life. His choices caused his HIV status and, unlike sufferers at the onset of the AIDS crisis, he knew the risk he was taking with homosexual sex and illegal drugs. Being HIV positive is not anything to be proud of and anyone who glorifies having the virus is perverted. Also, in regards to his book, “self-love” isn’t what caused the presence of HIV in his blood.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
anonymous 9/21/2019 8:09:12 PM (No. 186009)
HIV can be managed and people can live normal lives. It's not very contagious and it's not as debilitating as it was once thought to be. In the 1980's, it was more the drug use and promiscuity that weakened immune systems than it was the HIV, but the media needed a "viral" headline, and thus found HIV to be its sensational tool to get people to buy newspapers and watch TV.
As for this person, what irks me is that he says he's part of a "community". If this isn't the most over-used word in liberal group-think, I don't know what is.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/21/2019 8:46:09 PM (No. 186022)
HIV is beautiful now and celebrated like breast cancer.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 9/21/2019 8:52:12 PM (No. 186025)
He's "proud" to be a member of the HIV community? You can't make this stuff up. How can you be proud of getting a disease? Very sad.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Kate318 9/21/2019 9:09:26 PM (No. 186037)
“The Trump administration has done everything they can do to have the stigmatization of the L.G.B.T. community thrive around me.’” Uh...what?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
padiva 9/21/2019 10:15:28 PM (No. 186056)
I guess that I am part of the cancer community.
However, it doesn't occupy my every thought.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
SALady 9/21/2019 11:14:32 PM (No. 186069)
If this is such a beautiful disease and beautiful experience, why did he keep it a secret for so long?!?!?!?
Gee, maybe because he knew there is nothing even remotely "beautiful" about a horrible disease that he got doing nasty things that most people would be totally grossed out to think about!!!! And maybe because he knew that nobody would want to work with him any more!!!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
poliposter 9/22/2019 12:02:24 AM (No. 186076)
“And then I was like, ‘The Trump administration has done everything they can do to have the stigmatization of the L.G.B.T. community thrive around me.’”
Can someone tell me, specifically, what the Trump administration has done to have the stigmatization of the LGBT community thrive?
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He seems to have a lot of issues, including delusional thinking. I recently read that HIV is on the rise, probable because they don't see their lifestyle as a death sentence. Personally, I would see him as more "beautiful" with a real haircut and shaved face.
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Yes indeed nothing that being an addict and HIV positive and having to babble incoherently about how wonderful it is. Sorry honey, but you are sick and no amount of pretending is going to change that.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/22/2019 2:29:08 AM (No. 186114)
Seems to me I read somewhere that Bath House Barry convinced the Red Cross to accept HIV blood so unsuspecting people can be infected. Is Van Ness donating his beautiful HIV positive blood to the Red Cross? Enquiring minds want to know.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Rinktum 9/22/2019 5:57:24 AM (No. 186130)
His shirt should say, Sex, Sex, Sex instead of Love, Love, Love. The statistics of promiscuity in the gay community are quite telling. They drone on about love but their actions show that their main goal is having sexual relations with multiple partners. There’s not a lot of love going on but there is certainly a lot of sex. It is the act drives that community. Love is their buzz word which makes everything okay. Love is commitment and fidelity to live a life with someone. It is not bed hopping. You rarely hear about the statistics in the gay community because they would shock most people. We hear one side of their reality and that is always couched in terms of “love”. Let’s hear the rest of the story regarding the grooming and excessive sexual promiscuity. Most of us have grown weary of this one sided conversation.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
franq 9/22/2019 9:09:30 AM (No. 186259)
I'm a sinner too, but by God's grace I don't glory in it, as this man does...
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He may be a nice guy(?) but he is a sick puppy in every way.