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?
AIDS, THE LOST VOICES
Scottish artist Edward Cairns, 34, who was also a gay man was found dead at his London home in October 1984. Edward’s untimely death which was thought to be AIDS-related, fell under the scrutiny of the West London Coroner Dr. John Burton. And it didn’t go unnoticed by the Coroner, the sensational headlines in the tabloid press along with the media presence at the inquest.
AIDS, THE LOST VOICES
Will heads to Slough to surprise the hosts of The HIV podcast, Sarah & Jess. The trio then take a look at the HIVstory of the charity behind the podcast, ‘Thames Valley Positive Support’. Unearthing articles from the newspaper archives over the last four decades that leave the pair furious. Sarah & Jess are then surprised, if not overwhelmed, to hear from two very special guests that were at the heart of it all in the 1980s & 90s.
“HIV STIGMA” SO LAST CENTURY, LITERALLY.
I trawl the British newspaper archives to see when “AIDS stigma” and “HIV stigma” entered the conscience of society, when it peaked and declined. And if “HIV stigma” is still present in the 21st century.