.PoseOnFX star, DyllonBurnside, opened up about growing up 'queer and black in the South' at billboardpride's PrideSummit
, opened up about growing up "queer and black" in the South at Billboard & The Hollywood Reporter's inaugural Pride Summit in Los Angeles on Thursday .panel – which included Angel Curiel, Dyllón Burnside, Hailie Sahar, Indya Moore and MJ Rodriguez and moderator Jayce Baron of Kills & Tell Networks – Burnside got candid about the lack of information for LGBTQ individuals in the South.
Burnside notes that he "didn't learn about the consequences of HIV and what prevention and treatment looked like until I moved to New York City eight years ago. I was 23 years old and had to end up with a scare before I realized I need to know more about this." "It's imperative [HIV representation is] on this show because there's a stigma constantly around having HIV," adds Rodriguez. character, Ricky, is HIV+. "I mourned for the character, because I didn’t want to see him go through that. But I'm so grateful to be able to tell that story."
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