Big night for the little heralded NOC Party.

Areas that voted Brexit voting for Reform.

People who have fallen out of HIV care often experience intersecting needs, including homelessness, chemsex addiction and mental health challenges. Holistic and peer led interventions help.

CIVIC DUTY ✅ #PoofsAtPollingStations

Nigel Farage asked Reform to be judged on its record. Reform campaign on a promise to cut taxes. Every Reform council raised council tax in 2025. Turns out, taking down Pride flags wasn’t the big cost saver they promised it would be.

It’s much harder to hate or fear what you know. Simply by existing visibly, as a gay man or as someone living with HIV or as a trans person, we challenge stigma and hatred.

If you want to see some of what was burned (& some glimpses of what was saved thanks to archivists), come to HOME Manchester for an extreeeeemely rare screening of Hirschfeld's beautiful nature-is-queer documentary LAWS OF LOVE Tues 26 May 5.45 pm Tix: www.homemcr.org/whats-on/sex...

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Great news! Botswana has decriminalised homosexuality with the repeal of its colonial-era sodomy law. 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇼

Telling my nephews and neices this is Obi-Wan Kenobi. #MayThe4thBeWithYou

“If you hear someone being transphobic, call it out. If you hear someone misgendering someone, call it out.” Me talking with @www.helenwebberley.com.

Me with my new (aka on-screen) husband. #JustTheWayYouAre

Hayling Island. I am on you. Here to shoot a movie. Yes, really.

Happy 80th birthday to Joanna Lumley. She was schoolfriends with my mother and I think she had a little romance with my uncle. I saw her once on the tube and told her of this slight connection. She moved from her seat and sat and chatted with me the rest of the journey. The envious looks I got!

A Canadian man becomes the 11th person to be cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant. Note: while this is good news (every case adds to our understanding) the procedure is too dangerous to be applied to anyone not in imminent danger of death. There is still no available, acceptable cure for HIV.

“As a gay man I don’t support trans people because it’s about my own rights… but it is also about my own rights.” Me speaking with @www.helenwebberley.com about trans rights and being an ally.

On this day in 1999, the Admiral Duncan gay bar in London’s Soho was hit by a nail bomb, planted by a far right terrorist, It followed similar attacks in Brixton and Brick Lane. Three people were killed and more than 70 injured. The fight against homophobia is a fight for our safety.

If you can, please support @aidsmap.bsky.social to continue to deliver life-changing, sometimes life-saving, information for people living with HIV.

Today is the anniversary of my HIV diagnosis. I was 30 and had lost many friends to AIDS. The doctor told me that with treatment I could expect to live another twenty years. That was 28 years ago. HIV changed. Tell everyone.

3 time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, who turns 69 today, was launched into stardom in 1985, playing a gay fascist in a relationship with a young Pakistani man in My Beautiful Laundrette. Their champagne kiss was just about the most erotic thing I’d ever seen on a big screen at the time.

American friends: Just curious, are you aware that King Charles (of the UK and Commonwealth) is visiting right now?

I’ve heard it time and again, “I honestly don’t believe I’d be here today if it wasn’t for aidsmap.” The reliable information that @aidsmap.bsky.social provides empowers those of us living with HIV, and informs those who provide our care and support. If you can help, become a Friend of aidsmap.

Guess that makes me one of those woke queer leftists I’ve been reading about.

Went to see the cherry blossom in Greenwich Park. Because butch.

A picture of Nigel Farage with a friend.

It’s illustrative of how homophobic men’s football is, that a player accused of racist slurs defended himself by saying that his slurs were ‘only’ homophobic - leading to a six game ban rather than a ten game ban.

Doxy-PEP* reduces cases of syphilis in Seattle by half. *Taking the antibiotic doxycycline after sex

I am in the English countryside. Send help.

In my experience, the gays who were active in the gay rights movement support trans rights now. The gays who stayed home and scolded the activists for stirring things up are the ones who are now trying to ditch trans people.

Stock is a charlatan & Stonewall is only one, small, part of our communities. And, fuck off, we weren’t on our knees and pleading for tolerance. We were, fighting and angry; and remain so. The last decade of transphobia has shown our political establishment are, at best, fair weather friends.

In 1999 I conceived and co-curated Pride and Prejudice at the Museum of London. It was the first exhibition about LGBTQ lives at a major UK museum. Curatorial independence from the Government is vital for museums to reflect the communities they serve. Reform’s election pledge is chilling.

My book is out now!! Jacob’s Transition Goals is a positive, hopeful story about an 8 year old transgender boy who loves football. In today’s political climate, trans joy is so needed - you should grab a copy! You can buy Jacob’s Transition Goals in LGBTQ+ bookshops and online all over the world

To correct the record: The gay rights movement I was a part of in the 1980s and 90s was not aiming for ‘toleration’. Mere acceptance was not enough. How would that help the isolated queer kid? No. We wanted that child to know they would be loved and celebrated just as they were.

It’s been 10 years since Prince died and the world lost a musical genius. He was one of the first major artists to address AIDS in his music. Sign O’ the Times, released in 1987, as AIDS devastated communities in the US and around the world, referred to it as ‘a big disease with a little name’.

Good times working on Henry V with Bard As Nails. “Shhhhakespeare…” #ActorsLife

Are you interested in writing about HIV/AIDS? I’m thrilled @aidsmap.bsky.social is bringing back Emerging Voices, an opportunity to nurture skills and build a new generation of scientific writers. Successful candidates receive personalised training and a £200 monthly stipend.

Madonna included safer sex information with every copy of the (patchouli-scented) Like A Prayer album. There’s a reason why gays of a certain age (my age) will always love her, she had our backs when few did.

From the artist who brought you Sex in 1992, Madonna’s still too hot for some apparently. Unless it’s me they think is being sexually suggestive.

Madonna’s an icon who knows her iconography. So when her album cover presents her as a pink triangle I’m sure it’s a nod to the symbol assigned to homosexuals in the WWII concentration camps. The triangle was reclaimed by gays in the 70s / 80s and used powerfully by the AIDS activist groups ACT-UP.

Media outlets should spend less time writing about the “legitimate grievances” of people who loathe immigration and more time addressing how racist reporting about migrants, Muslims, Black folks, and other racialised communities has cultivated the fascism we are enduring today. Just saying.

What day is it today? #RecordStoreDay #Prince

Are you telling me I have to listen to the radio to hear the new Madonna single? Is this the 80s?

Investigative journalism is how we fight back. We’re backing more queer journalists to deliver it Here’s how 👇🧵

Had a lovely time presenting my research on how HIV positive people are represented by media then sitting down to discuss with @matthewhodson.bsky.social for the @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social. Managed to be a very flawed *human* by tripping over and unplugging the clearly marked projector wire twice!!

“He understood what it felt like to be a misfit and wanted to speak to misfits around the world: straight, gay, Black, white, whatever. He’d write songs such as If I Was Your Girlfriend and say, “I don’t want to specify whether I’m talking to a girl or a man. I want people to wonder.”

With the delightful @maxmorris.bsky.social after joining them in Oxford for a talk on media depictions of HIV.

Remembering today the extraordinary Nico (aka Charley Flyte). I had the delight of working on two shows with them, The Chemsex Monologues and Superficial. The world is a sadder place without their spirit.

Since 2012 the UK has treated all people with HIV, irrespective of nationality or immigration status. Treatment prevents HIV transmission so it’s good for the health of all of us to have every person with HIV treated. Farage’s policy would lead to more HIV cases and greater health costs.

Join me and @maxmorris.bsky.social this Thursday (16th) for ‘Re-centring the Human in Representations of HIV’ at the East Oxford Community Centre. FREE tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring...

Another man joins the handful of people who have been cured of HIV after bone marrow transplant. While each case contributes to our knowledge, the procedure carries such a high risk of death that it can only be used on those in already dire circumstances.