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.

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Krishen Samuel

HIV Adocate & HIV Positive

All those who came before me, that is part of my story

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Arnold Gordon

Activist & Founder of Blackliners

There was a huge appetite among young, gay, black men for what we could do to help them

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Lord Norman Fowler

Politician, Leader of 'Don't Die of Ignorance Campaign'

There were some who believed this was not a public health issue but one of public morality

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Alan Burgess

Long Term Survivor, & Haemophiliac

I tried not to let haemophilia get in the way of anything I wanted to do

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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

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Barbara Hedge

Psychologist & HIV Advocate

Every so often somebody would arrive in an ambulance from another part of the country with people dressed in space suits to bring them in. Stigma was prevalent beyond the four walls of the ward.

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