{"id":280221,"date":"2019-09-21T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1075430"},"modified":"2019-09-21T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T22:49:46","slug":"queer-eye-stars-send-their-love-after-jonathan-van-ness-reveals-hes-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/queer-eye-stars-send-their-love-after-jonathan-van-ness-reveals-hes-hiv-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Eye Stars Send Their Love After Jonathan Van Ness Reveals He&#8217;s HIV-Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.761695906433\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018917\/rs_634x1024-181017152434-Aussie-awesomeness.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Queer Eye, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness\" alt=\"Queer Eye, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness\"><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.921052631579\">\n<p><strong>Jonathan Van Ness<\/strong> is feeling the love and support from his <em>Queer Eye<\/em> co-stars.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old star opened up about&nbsp;being HIV-Positive, something that he revealed in his upcoming memoir <em>Over the Top<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/21\/style\/jonathan-van-ness-hiv-memoir.html?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/21\/style\/jonathan-van-ness-hiv-memoir.html?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/em> &#8220;That day was just as devastating as you would think it would be,&#8221; he&nbsp;shared in his book.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When <em>Queer Eye<\/em> came out, it was really difficult because I was like, &#8216;Do I want to talk about my status?,'&#8221; he told the publication. &#8220;And then I was like, &#8216;The Trump administration has done everything they can do to have the stigmatization of the L.G.B.T. community thrive around me. I do feel the need to talk about this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Netflix star described himself as a proud &#8220;member of the beautiful HIV-positive community.&#8221; He also shared that he&#8217;s healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the grooming expert on the hit reality TV show took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2rZsMHgwQ5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, where he said he felt &#8220;relieved&#8221; to finally share this news about himself and it didn&#8217;t take long for his <em>Queer Eye<\/em> co-stars and celeb friends to send him support.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>&#8220;Having the opportunity to write my book and share my story with you is the most important opportunity I&#8217;ve ever had,&#8221; Van Ness captioned his heartwarming post. &#8220;I&#8217;m relieved I can speak fully about the things that shape my experience in life. The book speaks to some extremely difficult times but it&#8217;s also filled with my humor, joy and voice &amp; I can&#8217;t wait to share it with you fully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.471321695761\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"14.588528678304\">\n<p>&#8220;Love you proud of you,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Antoni Porowski&nbsp;<\/strong>wrote. &#8220;Love you baby boy. So proud of you,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Bobby Berk&nbsp;<\/strong>added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LOVE YOU, JACKI,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Tan France&nbsp;<\/strong>said. &#8220;This was so incredible to wake up to and read,&#8221; model <strong>Hunter McGrady<\/strong> commented. &#8220;Thank you for sharing your story. You are making so many feel less alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moroever, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sophia_bush\">Sophia Bush<\/a><\/strong> shared, &#8220;Just adore you. Fully and completely. We&#8217;re all lucky to have you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>In true Jonathan fashion, it appears the 32-year-old star is looking on the bright side of things and is overwhelmed by the amount of love he&#8217;s received.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks so much for your support so far, it means the world,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1075430\/queer-eye-stars-send-their-love-after-jonathan-van-ness-reveals-he-s-hiv-positive?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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The 32-year-old star opened up about&nbsp;being HIV-Positive, something that he revealed in his upcoming memoir Over the Top, according to&nbsp;The New York Times. &#8220;That day was just as devastating as you would think it would be,&#8221; he&nbsp;shared in his book.&nbsp; &#8220;When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-21 17:59:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}