Fear is a perfectly rational response to danger. Fear can keep us safe. But a state of perpetual fear is not sustainable and it is not healthy.Read more
We’ve come so far in the terms of where we are in HIV prevention. We live in an age where the majority of gay and bisexual men living with HIV in the UK have the condition under control - 95% of people on treatment are undetectable.Read more
It’s not uncommon for gay men to struggle with the fact that they don’t fit the masculine mould – especially when growing up.Read more
This isn’t meant as some sort of inverted prejudice; I would never be so stupid as to turn someone down because of his HIV status. I just think it needs saying.Read more
The first time someone told me that they had HIV, they knew that they didn’t have long to live. We hugged and talked until the early hours. By the next year they were gone.Read more
"I want to be a ‘slut’. There, I said it."Read more
As I get that bit older, I tend to find that more things are becoming less important and my sense of taking each day as it comes is becoming far more accessible.Read more
I’ve been with GMFA about half of my adult life. After 17 years with GMFA it’s time for me to move on.Read more
For some, addiction is having a profoundly negative impact on their lives.Read more
It’s drummed into us that being insertive is masculine and that being receptive is feminine – and that femininity is something that men should avoid at all costs.Read more
HIV seems to be at the front of our minds at the moment, given the storm caused by NHS England’s decision not to fund PrEP on the NHS.Read more
Although hate is a strong word it isn’t anywhere near enough for how much I feel about being referred to, or anyone else for that matter, as being ‘poz’.Read more
13% of gay men said that watching bareback porn led them to personally have unprotected sex, with a further 9% saying they did not know. An increase from 2012...Read more
13% believe that watching bareback porn affected their decision to have unprotected sex.Read more
Right now it looks like there’s going to be a long wait before PrEP is made available on the NHS.Read more
And yet on a Saturday night, the gay scene is crammed full of ‘mean girls’ derisively appraising each others’ pants, pompadours and packages.Read more
Why we must encourage young students to join the fight in promoting safe sex at university.Read more
Just as education has helped and is helping the stigma around being gay, the same is as important and necessary around HIV.Read more