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Shamelessly HIV+. Former CEO of aidsmap and Gay Men Fighting AIDS. Now speaking, writing, acting (and healing) etc. These opinions, selfies and choices are mine but you’re welcome to them. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🌱
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“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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I’m 57 years old and 26 years diagnosed #HIV+. If you’ve recently been diagnosed please know: Your life isn’t over. You can still be healthy. You can have children. And grandchildren. You can have loving relationships and great, uninhibited sex (these may come hand in hand... or not).

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Diversity ensures that you get a range of different perspectives on a problem, informed by different life experiences. Diversity helps to deliver imaginative solutions. Diversity is not a bad word. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump’s Executive Order on global aid halted funding for AIDS relief (PEPFAR). If it is not restored there would be a full resurgence of the HIV pandemic by 2029, with an estimated 6.3 million AIDS-related deaths and 3.4 million AIDS orphans within 4 years. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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London Trans+ Pride is 26 July, just saying

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Photos online, even this one i’m posting here, don’t do this piece justice. Rounding a corner in the Keith Haring exhibit in Minneapolis last May and suddenly finding myself in the same room as it felt like i’d had the wind knocked out of me. If you ever get a chance to see it irl you gotta take it.

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Every Winter ends.

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In honour of #EastEnders 40th anniversary, here’s its first gay kiss, which sparked tabloid outrage at the time. Brace yourself, it’s a bit racy!

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21 Feb 1994. Parliament voted down an opportunity to equalise the age of consent for gay men. Instead they lowered it from 21 to 18, two years older than for heterosexuals. It sent the message that homosexuality was still something that younger adults needed shielding from. #LGBTHistoryMonth

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Despite targets to end HIV by 2030* more than 30% of people with HIV in the WHO Europe region still have detectable (i.e. transmissable) levels of the virus. New report highlights need for more testing and PrEP provision. *spoiler: not on our current trajectory. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Last week Kevin McKenna became the 3rd UK Member of Parliament to be open about his HIV status. I spoke to Metro about why it’s so valuable when people choose to come out of the viral closet. metro.co.uk/2025/02/14/m...

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On this day in 1988, 20,000 LGBTQ people and our allies marched through the streets of Manchester to protest Section 28, which tried to stifle all mention of our lives. At the time it was the largest gay rights gathering ever. Pic: The crowd seen from the top of the Town Hall. #LGBT+HistoryMonth

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Midweek mirth and muscles with my PT and mate Ash (of Smash Mind and Body).

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Joe Haines, Press Secretary to Harold Wilson PM, died today aged 97. When Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in 1991 Haines described him as ‘sheer poison, a man bent - the apt word - on abnormal sexual pleasure, corrupt, corrupting and a drug taker.' Haines was part of a cruel, homophobic establishment.

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Keith Haring’s Silence=Death was painted in 1988, the year he was diagnosed with AIDS. The Pink Triangle referred to the badges worn by gay men in concentration camps. It reflected the US Government’s long silence on AIDS. 24,559 Americans died of AIDS before Reagan publicly referred to the disease.

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‘…the status quo has already collapsed, but people act as if it remains intact. Because individuals haven’t fully processed this shift, they default to inaction.’

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