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I just wanted to see me somebody who's really like dealing

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with it.

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Tell their story identically, my story.

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No longer was like necessarily my story.

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My story was a lot of people story.

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Play. Hi, my name is Trinity K Bonet.

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My given name is Joshua Jones.

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My pronouns are heating him today and she didn't what professional

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Park drag race with my Drag Race All Stars.

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Also had a residency at the Flamingo Hotel with.

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We've always knew my mom has pictures of me as a kid like in

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her heels and purses and stuff and she thought it was funny.

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I've only ever had one girlfriend and I was like fourth and fifth

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grade and she was like a lesbian too,

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but we were like really close friends.

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I was like, we're just going to ask each other and then everything after

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that was just being mean, my mom is bisexual.

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So there was a spell from like 11:00 on up to where she started

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dating women and that kind of open that door and made it a lot

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easier to be fluently myself.

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My first boyfriend was I like

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13. And then after, like, Mom came out and I got introduced

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to drag because it was like, this local flea market pageant

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that they will have it had dragway's there and immediately

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clicked. I was like all I can do this.

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So, I would have parties and stuff at my house and I would

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perform and dress up my mom with,

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you know, by me pretty much whatever I asked for,

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but wouldn't make up.

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We're going to stuff like that to learn how to do the art form.

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She's supplied it for me, so she was a great deal of support

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for me and it made it a lot easier to be as good as

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I am today because I started so early and the Restless been

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history, I found out.

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It was 2012.

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I'm out with a guy.

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I went to a ball and it was a call.

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If you get tested, you get free admission. I

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was like, oh, that's 30 bucks.

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I can save, okay.

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Sorry, I got tested and later on throughout the bar,

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you know, the guy brought me back in the back and he was like,

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you know, when say that you were positive and I was like,

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okay. And he was like, are you okay?

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I said yeah, I feel okay, and same situation with my mom and

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everybody. By the grace of God, I have been positive.

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I've never really felt the effects of dealing with are living

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with HIV. Now, there's been times, you know,

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like any human, you know, you fall off a car through the pressure

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and don't really want to be bothered,

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but I've never really allowed it to affect me mentally.

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If I don't have strength for myself,

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I can I expect nothing but a strip for me.

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So in 20 2013, I was on RuPaul's Drag Race.

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And I decided to disclose my HIV status.

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Telling my story for me was necessary,

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mostly honestly, because it wasn't a lot of representation

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for black men on television.

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You know, talking about something that is so stigmatized

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and so running.

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So rampant within our own Community.

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There was no black man black men,

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other than Magic Johnson who it came out publicly about their

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status. My journey became bigger than me.

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I started off doing this, just doing Dragon the drag time,

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something else, that was more important.

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I think the most important thing for anybody who's dealing

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with HIV, or we may have been newly diagnosed is once you have

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gone through that hurdle of beating yourself up for a question

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yourself or whatever.

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The case, maybe get on your treatment and move on with your

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day-to-day life. Life doesn't really stop.

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When you live with HIV, you go to all the same trials and tribulations,

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you have all the same issues and you kind of got to just throw

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that in the bag to and keep it moving.

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I will not let that trouble.

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You take me out of promise you,

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it's going to be something else.