ABC News contributor reveals HIV status in hopes to end stigma

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Published 2024-06-25
ABC News' Steve Osunsami speaks with ABC News contributor LZ Granderson about why he’s revealing his HIV status now and how the virus disproportionately affects people of color.

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All Comments (14)
  • @ZOIZENWRITER
    responsibility means wearing a condom and being honest, period.
  • When I was 27 years old I was seeing a psychologist. I was so embarrassed I would’ve died if any family member or coworker knew about this. I had my own checking account but I had my mother write up the checks for my therapist because I did not want the tellers to see my name on a check with a therapists name under pay to the order of. Somewhere along session number seven I started writing my own checks. I had to convince myself that tellers had better things to do then let people know I was seeing a therapist besides, I’m in my very early 70s now and I have actually put on the Internet that I have a mental illness called borderline personality disorder. I am no longer afraid or ashamed of this. It’s just a part of who I am and to this very day I am still in therapy. It’s a slow process but I haven’t given up on me yet. 😊❤
  • You are a good man for this! Thank you! Sounds like your son is a good dude! I’ve always loved your commentary, keep it up.
  • @Eboli-dx5mq
    As an African American wombman, mother, grandmother and veteran of over a decade if “THEY” honestly want this disparity to end they would “STOP” creating a system of oppression in the form of laws that disproportionately incarcerate’s young black men in these privatized prisons (slavery) where they know statistically within 14 months sex acts either willingly or unwillingly will occur.
  • @quake_er1149
    Thanks to your story I have learned that there is an h I v prevention drug! ❤
  • ❤‍🔥𓆩✞𓆪 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the Gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved , if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: -` 🚨⏰ ´- THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, AND THAT HE WAS BURIED AND THAT HE ROSE AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES. 1 Co 15:1-4 NKJV