Posted on 03/25/2018 8:24:05 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Karl Schmid, an on-camera reporter for ABC’s Los Angeles affiliate, came out as HIV positive on Friday night in a powerful Facebook post about stigma and acceptance.
The 37-year-old Australian import covers human interest stories and Hollywood on ABC7, reporting from events like the Academy Awards and the annual Vanity Fair Oscar party. After a decade living with HIV, Schmid said he came forward despite numerous industry peers urging him to stay quiet.
“For 10 years I’ve struggled with ‘do I or don’t I?’ For ten years the stigma and industry professionals have said, ‘don’t! It’ll ruin you,”’ wrote Schmid.
“But here’s the thing. I’m me. I’m just like you. I have a big heart and I want to be loved and accepted. I may be on TV from time to time, but at the end of the day I’m just an average guy who wants want we all want. To be accepted and loved by our friends and family and to be encouraged by our peers,” he said.
The post tagged charity T-shirt project The AIDS Memorial, which shares stories of “love, loss and remembrance” of those affected by the disease.
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Exactly
I am sorry that this man is HIV positive and I don’t think there is much value in speculating about how he got it. But at the end of the day, I don’t care one way or the other about it. I’m not going to “celebrate” his “bravery” for admitting this. He should do his job and live his life as best as he can. Whatever he did to get the HIV virus, hopefully he learned a lesson from the experience.
Yes, he was only 27 when his perverted lifestyle of turd burgling, ball gargling, butt piracy, coprophilia, and felching caught up with him.
But hey, they’re just like us, and we should not be concerned when they want to be around our kids.
Here, take my kid camping. What could go wrong?
AIDS/HIV is 99.9999% preventable if one CHOOSES the correct lifestyle.
I wonder? Does he want what I want? Does he pray, daily(!), for Jesus the Christ to help him turn away from sin in his life?
Battling a sexual stigma in the home of the perpetual hypocrite? Well, they warned him that he would receive no mercy or quarter from his professional peers.
That's why I said disgustingly sad.
I didn't feel the need to go in to detail.
ABC has been screwing everyone
There is joy in the fact that you wake up at all.
“There is joy in the fact that you wake up at all.”
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On the other, if I die before I wake I know I’ll be in good Hands.
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