Jonathan hopes to dissolve stigmas surrounding HIV.
. According to the biography, Jonathan learned of the diagnosis at age 25 after he fainted while highlighting a client's hair at a salon."That day was just as devastating as you'd think it would be," he writes.
Although Jonathan admits it's hard to be vulnerable, he hopes talking about his experience will quash stigmas and misconceptions about"the beautiful HIV-positive community."about being a sexual abuse survivor, revealing he was sexually assaulted when he was young."For a lot of people who are survivors of sexual assault at a young age, we have a lot of compounded trauma," he said.
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