Cover Stories

Looking good in a T-shirt led ABC entertainment reporter Karl Schmid to come out HIV-positive in a social media post that went viral. Now, we’re all mad about the guy.

This Texas-bred boy-next-door won a gay reality dating competition — and the devotion of fans — by coming out as HIV-positive. Now he’s paying it forward.

After a decade away from Hollywood, The Real World star Karamo Brown is back on MTV and is ready to take on the high rates of HIV in the black community.

Former basketball star DeMarco Majors talks about surviving assault and living with HIV.

He mesmerized us as Omar on The Wire, charmed us as Chalky on Boardwalk Empire, and still has us coming back for more as half of the titular Hap and Leonard. So expertly crafting another gay character on TV (real-life, HIV-positive veteran Ken Jones on When We Rise) was smooth sailing for the actor and activist. But the reasons why he took this role was way more personal than many realize.

In this exclusive interview, Smollett and comedian Sampson McCormick get real about the responsibility of being Black gay artists, the quest for an HIV cure, and what’s really at the root of homophobia and oppression.

Documenting his own life as a poz person with disabilities helped activist-turned-actor Joseph Kibler inspire thousands of others