AIDS: THE LOST VOICES
In a series finale Will & Gloria head to Brighton for the bank holiday weekend. Through the papers, the pair learn about the life of the UK’s first openly gay football referee, Norman Redman from West Sussex. However, very little is made of his years of campaigning for gay rights and HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Norman had to first contend with teams refusing to play because he was “homosexual”. Then teams refused to play when they learned Norman was “an AIDS carrier” as they deemed him “a health risk”.
The pair also uncover stories from the newspaper archives which include a visit to Brighton AIDS centre by the late Princess Dianna in 1990. A young man convicted of wielding an HIV-infected needled when challenged for stealing a bulb of garlic. And a new game being played in the school playgrounds of West Sussex called “AIDS”.
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NORMAN John Redman was born 7 July 1944 to parents Philip Harold Redman and Pauline Thelma Ruth (nee. Wills) Redman in Worthing, Sussex.
Philip & Pauline married in 1940 although records show Pauline was living alone in Linden Road, Sussex in 1954. In 1976 Pauline married Earnest Kaveney who then died in 1988. Pauline re-married Philip in 1989 and the pair moved to Canada where Pauline died in 2004 and Philip in 2007.
Norman spent most of his life living at Flat 2, 2 Goda Road, Littlehampton, Sussex.
Awaiting death certificate
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