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.

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Mark Ward

Haemophiliac, Activist & HIV Positive

When I walked into a club, I wasn’t Mark the haemophiliac, I wasn’t Mark the AIDS victim, I was the Mark party animal.

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Ash Kotak

Film Maker, Long Term Survivor & Founder AIDS Memory

We have to take collective responsibility for the job that is not finished. The job started in 1982. The job is to end AIDS, and the stigma surrounding it.

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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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Robert Ely

Activist & HIV Positive

I don’t have any holidays, I don’t have a car, I don’t do anything out of the ordinary these days, apart from survive, and that is worrying

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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.

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