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'Real World' alum Karamo Brown and Deondre Moore share their thoughts
Karamo Brown is tired of the shade.
It's been 12 years since "The Real World: Philadelphia" alum made his television debut as the first openly gay Black man on reality TV.
And not much has changed regarding the stigma associated with African Americans in the LGBTQ community, he tells BlackDoctor.org.
One major stigma being this assumption, he continues, that if you're a gay or bisexual Black man, it's inevitable that you'll contract HIV.
"Yes, I have dated men who are HIV-positive, proudly and openly. People associate me and say that I have HIV. They start to want to shade me," says Brown, who is HIV-negative. "If someone wants to assume that I'm HIV-positive or whatever, it doesn't take away from the love that I have and me supporting another brother."
That's why Brown is on...