Billy Porter is feeling emotional after being honored by The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
. ET's Lauren Zima spoke with the Emmy-winning artist at The Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS about receiving the foundation's Commitment to End AIDS Award and his role in fighting and advocating to end the disease. When Porter got the call that he'd be receiving the honor, he had one word to describe his reaction:"Humbled."
Though Porter never got the chance to meet Taylor, if he had the chance, he'd simply like to tell her,"Thank you." "Well I’m an artist, right? And I've been an artist all my life. And I haven't always had a platform where anybody cared. I've always been the same person, I've always been doing this. The the world has caught up. The world has changed," Porter explained. "There is an evolution that's going on. We've come a long way. And I know sometimes that's hard to see because there's so much negativity, but we also have to remember how far we've come.
Porter hasn't only been an advocate for ending HIV and AIDS, he's been open about his own battle with the disease and what it's been like to share his status with the world. Porter"You know, there is a shame component that comes with living. Period. You know, a very particular kind of shame that comes with being queer. And then another layer that comes with the HIV stigma.
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