Billy Porter Delivers Emotional Speech at the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation Gala

Porter was honored with the Elizabeth Taylor Legacy Award during the annual event at the Beverly Hills Hotel. He shared powerful stories about his upbringing with a stepfather who molested him, opening up to his mother about his HIV status, and his memories of being a young man during the devastating early days of the AIDS epidemic. “My friends were dropping like flies around me from the age of 16. I lost more friends by the age of 21 than my 80-year-old grandmother had,” he says. “All…