Flashback to a time of stigma and fear
I was diagnosed with HIV during the broadcasting of the hysterical Grim Reaper campaign in 1987, at eighteen years old.
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December 2018
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March 2018
Invisible no more!
Reflecting on my life in 1988 brings back some painful memories: and I was starting to fear for my own health.
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March 2018
Life after Vancouver
In 1996, I obtained a seat on the floor in the corridor at the XI International AIDS Conference, held in Vancouver.
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March 2018
Best of times and worst of times
The 1980s was a peak time for ‘gay’ and ‘community’. They were also the time that we got to understand the HIV epidemic
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March 2018
The Middle Years
Part of the story of Talkabout and its contribution to people living with HIV in NSW.
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March 2018
It came out of nowhere
No one knew what it was, what caused it, or how to deal with it. The first recorded case of AIDS in Australia was in Sydney in October 1982.
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March 2018
1988 Revisited
September 1988. It was when AIDS notifications had risen to 1,000; when 500 people had died; when the stigma of infection had spread its poison wide.
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March 2018
People living with HIV were central
From 2000 to 2003 many positive people who had earlier retired were thinking about returning to work.
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December 2017
The Red Tree
Remaining motivated and engaged in my health takes energy, focus and is a full time job.
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December 2017
Our changing conversations – the PSB two decades on
As a Positive Speakers Bureau speaker of 21 years for Positive Life NSW, I have been privileged to hear stories and see lives transform.
