'At the beginning (of 'Queer Eye') I was really kind of nervous to talk about my HIV status and not sure if I wanted to and how I wanted to,' Van Ness told USA TODAY.
David OliverYou know Jonathan Van Ness as the sassiest, silliest groomer on Netflix's "Queer Eye." After you read his memoir"Over the Top" out Sept. 24, you're going to appreciate and understand his gutsy glam even more.
Though the Trump administration has indeed supported grants to help end the HIV epidemic, it's been criticized by LGBTQ advocates for failing to meaningfully protect the community. Van Ness uses the memoir as an opportunity to educate people on what having HIV means, what it's like to date and how you're treated in the U.S. and across the world. For starters: Once he went on an antiretroviral prescription, he was undetectable in two weeks.
When it comes to his addiction recovery, he says he feels he was able to do work around his underlying issues and that he no longer takes his trauma and puts it against himself like he used to."I just feel like I have a very integrated and healthy sex life and my relationship to weed is gorgeous. And I don’t do drugs that aren’t weed," he says .He meditates in the mornings and enjoys figure skating and gymnastics – the latter of which he did when he was a child.
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