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Pose actor Billy Porter has revealed he has been living with HIV for the past 14 years.

The US star was diagnosed in 2007 but said he had since “lived with that shame in silence”.

Making it public would also have been “another way for people to discriminate against me in an already discriminatory profession”, he explained.

But speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, he said: “There’s no more stigma – let’s be done with that. It’s time.”

Porter made his name on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for his role in the musical Kinky Boots in 2013.

He won an Emmy