Queerty that he received his diagnosis in September 2017.On Twitter, he posted a photo of himself wearing a T-shirt that says “HIV Lives Matter.” It’s not the first time he’d posted the image but the first time he did so, he was persuaded to take it down.“When I posted this the first time, I had a lot of well-meaning but misguided people message me in private ‘warning’ me by saying I should keep this part of myself to myself,” he began.When I posted this the first time, I had a lot of well meaning but misguided people message me in private “warning” me by saying I should keep this part of myself to myself (1) pic.twitter.com/dfR5Ri9h71— Jack Johnson IV.