Oct 24 2008
Feature Profile: Steve Moore - You Hear the One About the HIV-Positive Comedian?
Like any good stand-up comic, Steve Moore has a reserve of comebacks to draw upon if the crowd gets unruly or groans at a joke.
“Don’t mess with me, folks,” he is apt to say in his husky Virginia drawl. “I can open a vein and take out the whole front row.” Or he might pick up a stein off a nearby table and ask ever-so-innocently, “Excuse me, Goober, can I have a sip of your beer?”
Even the helplessly drunk and the terminally jaded spring instantly to attention. The 42-year-old Moore, you see, is gay. Nearly eight years ago, he tested positive for HIV. Since then he has watched
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