Mykki Blanco has made a major admission on Facebook.
In a very personal Facebook posting on Friday, the rapper/poet/performance artist revealed that he’s been living with HIV for the past four years.
"Ive been HIV Positive since 2011, my entire career," Blanco wrote, adding:
"f-ck stigma and hiding in the dark, this is my real life. I'm healthy I've toured the world 3 times but ive been living in the dark, its time to actually be as punk as i say I am."
Why has Blanco now come clean?
"I'm healthy, I've toured the world 3 times but I've been living in the dark," he wrote. "It's time to actually be as punk as I say I am.
"No more living a lie. HAPPY PRIDE."
Blanco (real name: Michael Quattlebaum Jr.) has been a staunch proponent of LGBTQ rights in the past. His most recent mixtape was titled "Gay Dog Food."
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