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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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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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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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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George Hodson

Long Term Survivor & Warrior Queen

The day you get your diagnosis is like a personal earthquake

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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.

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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.

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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.

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