Keep an eye out for these posters appearing in cafes, libraries, and other public spaces for my @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social event with @matthewhodson.bsky.social in the East Oxford Community Centre! Please share and register to attend here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring... #HIV #UequalsU #Oxford

Them: It always used to be just ‘lesbian and gay’. This whole ‘LGBTQ’ stuff is a modern thing. Armistead Maupin: Publishing in 1978 the first of a series of novels about a queer community with a trans matriarch and an interconnecting family of lesbians, gays and bisexuals.

The @queertheatreuk.bsky.social Outcast showcase is tomorrow (Weds). It promises to be a really entertaining evening of new and classic queer writing and performers. Do come if you can.

Sadly coming to accept I may never visit the US again. I had so many good times there.

Today is the heavenly birthday of Stephen Sondheim, the greatest musical theatre composer and lyricist. It is also Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s birthday.

Bench in Plaza de Espana commemorating the first gay visitors to the Yumbo Centre.

New study sparks consternation and debate after suggesting HIV can be passed on when viral load is between 200-1,000. Notes to follow.

Your own poseable Jesus.

I’m performing in the @queertheatreuk.bsky.social Outcast Showcase next Weds (25 March) at the 2 Brewers in Clapham. It should be a fun night - do come. www.queertheatre.co.uk/whats-on/out...

Join me and @matthewhodson.bsky.social in the East Oxford Community Centre 4 WEEKS from today for this @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social event on 'Recentring the Human in Representations of HIV' Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring... Other events: www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Carl Giles was a fascinating man. A few months after this he was with the Coldstream Guards when they liberated Bergen-Belsen. The German camp commander got excited and kept banging on about how much of a fan of Giles war cartoons he was. Kept asking for a signed drawing. /1

The coffee cup… I think about you.

Outing myself as a giant. #StPatricksDay

1.3 million people in Zambia rely on lifesaving HIV treatment provided by the decades-old US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Trump is threatening these lives, using them as bargaining chips for mineral exploitation rights.

Happy #StPatricksDay to all who celebrate. Here’s me in Dublin, 23 years ago, laughing with sperm.

It’s extraordinary and sad that 36 years after Justin Fashanu became the first openly gay professional footballer, despite all the progress we have supposedly made in combatting homophobia, we are still to see a Premier League player come out.

“When a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don’t say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice.” - David Borenstein, co-Director of #Oscar winner Mr Nobody vs Putin. Not just Russia.

I’m feeling bold so here’s my #Oscars predictions.

Happy Mother’s Day especially to all those mums who show up for their LGBTQ+ children. #mothersday

Rather disappointing results from a trial suggest that, as with treatment, a combination approach may be required if we are ever to find a functional cure for HIV.

Praying that Liza outlives him.

Ok, if we’re doing this. This is me in the 90s. Did I have game? That’s not for me to say.

In honour of her 80th birthday, here’s Liza Minnelli getting surprised by Chita Rivera in just about the most charming showbiz moment ever! #LizaIs80

Today is a good day to be a visible trans ally. Tomorrow is also good. 💜

Don’t be too shocked to discover that Reform top the polls for gay/bi men. There’s a long history of gays supporting those who do not support our rights. Margaret Thatcher, whose Government introduced the homophobic Section 28, was voted ‘Woman of the Year’ by Capital Gay readers, at least twice.

The partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in 1967 did not end the legal persecution of LGBT folk. In fact, arrests increased. We could be arrested for kissing in public so ‘Kiss Ins’ became part of our activist armoury. Pic: me and ? at a Kiss In in 1991, protesting police harassment.

Why did they think someone who was comfortable hanging out with paedophile crooks would be a good ambassador to the US? I can’t imagine.

This year only 2 out of 5 of the Best Song #Oscar nominees get to perform in another attempt to make the Oscars palatable to those who don’t enjoy watching the Oscars - a definitively hopeless task. Tech awards and their winners are often treated poorly, like they’re 2nd class. Here’s my solution:

I’ve finally grown into the kind of man I used to have sex with in the 1980s.

“Ideally, I’d like to date an older elegant man who speaks beautifully and is filthy rich. Then I’d like to date a 40-year-old guy who is passionate about something. I don’t care what. Then I’d like to date an 18-year-old who I see twice a week and whose name I don’t know.” Same Liza, same.

This is so disrespectful to the other Best Song nominees. #Oscars

First 6km of the month. Not bad for a 58 year old bloke who was told he’d be dead before he got to 50. HIV treatment works. Tell everyone.

Three new long-acting injectable HIV medications suggest that 2-jabs-per-year HIV treatment is coming.

Maybe if they’d kept the gay elements in Elio wouldn’t have been Pixar’s biggest flop?

Disappointment as gonorrhoea vaccine fails to work for gay / bi men in Australian trial.

Depeche Mode tribute act in Prague.

“I’m worried about this very loud anti-trans sentiment that is taking over mainstream media. I’m hoping that this is a beacon that will say: ‘Well, actually, there are lots of people who love and support trans people and we’re not going to be quiet either.’” - Olly Alexander 💜

You in another decade.

Trans identity has been erased from federally collected data and barriers erected against trans people accessing HIV prevention and care in the US. Gender affirming prevention and care and inclusive data collection for this population, with acute HIV need, is vital.

Being a basic tourist. #Prague

On this day in 1988, 2000 people took to the streets of Leeds for a Stop the Clause protest. The clause was an amendment to the Local Government Act intended to suppress public discussion of homosexuality. It became known as Section 28. At the time 75% of people believed homosexuality was wrong.

Excellent choices from @dorianawards.bsky.social with 7 big wins for Sinners, Best LGBTQ movie going to the underloved Pillion and a lifetime achievement award for the marvellous Tim Curry. deadline.com/2026/03/dori...

Where am I? Prize* for first correct answer - or for best wrong answer. *Prize has no cash value, may not be transferred or exchanged and probably does not exist.

Trans lives are more important than Harry Potter. 💜

My Beautiful Laundrette was released in 1985. The champagne exchange between Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke was the first gay kiss I saw on a big screen - and I went back and watched it at the cinema two more times after.

‘And only this torments my wretched soul, that whether I will or no thou must depart.’ Me as the queer King and Dan Waterhouse as his lover in an extract from Marlowe’s Edward II at the @queertheatreuk.bsky.social Winter Outcast showcase. Dir. @andrewkeates.bsky.social.

More than half of participants in a small HIV cure trial maintained a low enough viral load to stay off treatment for 20 weeks. One participant remains undetectable after a year. Note: while this is encouraging, the different responses indicate the prospect of a cure for all remains distant.

PrEP is not reaching enough of the people most at risk, to end the HIV epidemic - and Trump’s aid cuts have made a bad situation worse. It was hoped that new infections could be almost eliminated by 2030, now it’s projected that more people will acquire HIV in 2030 than in 2024.

As it’s the last day of #LGBTQHistoryMonth (in the UK), here’s a thread about growing up gay in the 1980s/90s, facing the threat of AIDS and the introduction of Section 28.

It’s estimated that PEPFAR (the bi-partisan President’s fund to tackle AIDS) has saved 26 million lives since 2003. But in 2025, PEPFAR’s lifesaving momentum was slowed down by Trump’s administration, which has radically different ideas about global health funding – particularly for #HIV.