Video listing
Losing Loved Ones:
Michael Gould
HIV Positive Male Nurse
Perhaps I knew fifty people who died by the end of the eighties. I was in my mid- thirties going through what octogenarian grandparents experience when all their friends die and they’re the last.
Gill Brigg
Friend & Carer
I took one look at Vaughn and part of me broke. His clothes were on inside out. He had bits of wool and string tied in circles around him, and a tape measure. Things to ‘keep him safe’. His mind was disturbed.
Kevin Kelland
Long Term Survivor & Activist
He’d been moved to a respite home which was really for elderly people. It was full of prejudice and bigotry. Some nurses wouldn’t touch him. He went through hell before he died.
David Eason
Long Term Survivor
One of the greatest tragedies of HIV is that instead of treating it as a catastrophic medical pandemic, the rest of the world treated it as a moral issue
George Hodson
Long Term Survivor & Warrior Queen
The day you get your diagnosis is like a personal earthquake
Fred Mann
Long Term Survivor
Trying to fight a pandemic in a gay relationship, when it’s actually illegal to be with the person you’re trying to save, is not something I would wish on anybody.
Frankie O’Reilly
Long Term Survivor & Ex Drag Queen
We came to London to give each other freedom, to enjoy ourselves. We’d had that. And now we both had our diagnoses.
Ruth Phypers
Buddy & Advocate
The report appeared in the News of the World: Sex and Drugs on AIDS Training Weekend. Suddenly we were all under the spotlight and it wasn’t fair. Volunteers had put in so much.
Helen Nicholson
Advocate & Friend to HIV Positive Men
But it was splashed across the media: 'Should we allow our future queen to shake hands with an AIDS victim?' All this bile. Bile about Shane.
Barbara Hathaway & Denise
Mother of HIV Positive Daughter
In London by that time, the perception was that it affected only gay men, nothing to do with women.