AIDS: THE LOST VOICES
In a series finale Will & Gloria head to Brighton for the bank holiday weekend. The pair learn about the life of the UK’s first openly gay football referee, Norman Redman from West Sussex. 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”.
AIDS: THE LOST VOICES
In 1985 a 29-year-old man named Roger Youd was subject to a court order detaining him in Monsall Hospital because he wanted to merely “go home”. Manchester council sought the order under the Public Health Act 1984 stating Roger was “very dangerous” to the public because he was "bleeding" and given he had “AIDS”. Little did they know the story would cause a national "furore”.
AIDS, THE LOST VOICES
A mother learns she is HIV positive days before delivering twins & learns she may have passed the virus on. And One-year-old Antony Thorpe is the first child in the UK to die of AIDS after receiving contaminated blood. And Eileen & Billy Quirk share how their 10-year-old son Stephen Quirk, was the first child living with haemophilia to die of AIDS after receiving contaminated blood products.
AIDS, THE LOST VOICES
Two men around 30, each with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis are on the same hospital ward. One is a patient and the other, a nurse. Both men were photographed with the late Diana, Princess of Wales . But who were these courageous men, what happened to them and what impact did they have on HIV/AIDS stigma?