It’s a Sin, (debuting in the U.S. on HBO Max February 18), Hall spoke with Attitude in 2019 about the devastation of learning he had contracted HIV following his first sexual experience at 16.
Attitude republished the article yesterday with updates.“It was like being hit by a truck” the now-34-year-old Hall remembered of his diagnosis.Hall revealed he had been involved in a whirlwind romance with an older lover (“between 23 and 26” and given the pseudonym Sam by Hall).
Sam claimed he had tested negative at the time, so Hall gave protection and safe sex little thought. But two weeks following his 17th birthday, he received the news he was now living with HIV.