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Matthew Hodson@matthewhodson.bsky.social |
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Shamelessly HIV+. These opinions, gym-selfies and choices are mine but you’re welcome to them. He/him. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🌱
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Matthew Hodson
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If #PrEP had been available in the 1990s I would not be living with HIV now.
It’s more effective HIV prevention than condoms.
PrEP users should be praised not shamed.
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Matthew Hodson
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It’s a rite of passage.
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Matthew Hodson
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It's no surprise that Suella Braverman is hostile to the Pride Progress Flag and anything that indicates support for LGBTQ+ people and communities.
But she is misled or misleading to claim gender affirmative surgery is available for children - it is not.
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Matthew Hodson
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If you’ve never heard Ethel Merman’s disco version of Everything’s Coming Up Roses then your knowledge of camp is incomplete.
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Ok, now I’m going to bed.
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Our votes matter.
#QueersAtPollingStations
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Phwoar!
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On this day in 1981 the first mainstream media report of what would come to be known as AIDS was published on page 20 of the New York Times. The epidemic has now taken the lives of 700,000 Americans out of an estimated 40 million AIDS deaths globally. And it is not over yet.
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Poor relationships with healthcare providers can lead people with HIV to disengage with care.
New study identifies 5 ways HIV healthcare providers can demonstrate respect for their patients.
www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-202...
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Matthew Hodson
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At Pride in 1991.
My t-shirt is from Derek Jarman’s Edward II.
My hair is awesome.
Happy #Pride2024!
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Matthew Hodson
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A face for radio! Just did a live mini-interview for BBC London about Pride. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Today marks the 55th anniversary of the first night of the Stonewall Riots.
Although #Stonewall was not the beginning of the LGBTQ rights movement (named differently throughout history) it was seen as pivotal and it is the reason #Pride is celebrated at this time of year.
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Three years before Stonewall, trans women and drag queens led a confrontation between queers and the Police. The Comptons Cafeteria riot was ignited when a police officer tried to arrest a trans woman and she threw her coffee in his face. The press deemed it too obscene to cover.
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Matthew Hodson
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Don’t grow up (it’s a trap!).
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Matthew Hodson
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Can you guess from my shirt which musical I’m seeing tonight?
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Matthew Hodson
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Got my hair cut.
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Brilliant news!
Zero infections in trial of ‘2 injections per year’ PrEP!
It’s not a vaccine - but it’s as good, or better.
This gives us the power to end new cases of HIV.
Now to ensure access for all.
www.aidsmap.com/news/jun-202...
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30 years ago, while Section 28 was still stifling LGBTQ+ representation, the C4 soap Brookside broadcast the UK’s first pre-watershed lesbian kiss.
Great piece by Nicola Stephenson on this historic moment in TV history, which she shared with Anna Friel.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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By her own account, Marsha P Johnson was not there the first night of the riots (and, according to her, Sylvia Riviera was never there). Marsha and Sylvia earned their place in history as advocates for queers, trans people, sex workers and the homeless, irrespective of Stonewall.
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The Stonewall Riots continued for almost a week. The Mattachine Society of New York, at the time a leading homosexual rights group (some homosexual men were unhappy with the term ‘gay’), pleaded with the protestors to stop. They did not believe a riot helped the cause.
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Matthew Hodson
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The official Gay Pride 1991 shorts were awesome!
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Arguments about ‘who threw the first brick at Stonewall’ are confounded by witness accounts that testify that no bricks were involved, but coins, cans and small stones. Several accounts (inc. her own) report the protest was ignited by butch dyke / drag king Stormé DeLarverie.
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The Stonewall Riots began when patrons of a mob-run, low rent gay bar in New York’s West Village said, “Enough!” Prominent among the rioters were dykes, sex workers, trans women and drag queens. Many rioters were already seen as the lowest of the low, they had ‘nothing to lose’.
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Matthew Hodson
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There were trans women at Stonewall.
There were trans women at the first Pride rally in London.
I marched with trans women on Section 28 protests in the 1980s.
Our communities, our activism and our Pride histories are intertwined.
#Pride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Matthew Hodson
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A safe, available and effective cure for HIV is probably at least a decade away - and even that’s optimistic.
Personally, I don’t think I’ll ever be cured and I’m fine with that.
Secure treatment access for all and tackling stigma are more important to me.
#MakeStigmaHistory
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Brilliant news! Namibia will repeal colonial era anti-sodomy laws.
Congratulations Namibia’s LGBTQ activists and allies!
#LoveIsLove
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Matthew Hodson
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If you don’t use alt text you’re only telling half the story.
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Matthew Hodson
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Happy #Midsummer to all who celebrate.
Love, this big fairy. Xx
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Not the souvenir I was hoping to bring back but… butch though!
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Matthew Hodson
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Savagely attacked by safety handle on way to the airport. Send thoughts and prayers.
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250 meters up the Tokyo Tower.
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UK guidance around breastfeeding for those living with HIV leaves women feeling they are predestined to fail at doing ‘what is best’ for their baby.
www.aidsmap.com/news/jun-202...
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Matthew Hodson
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Great news!
Thailand looks set to introduce same sex marriage.
#LoveIsLove
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Section 28, an amendment to the Local Government Act banning the ‘promotion of homosexuality’, was law in 1999. We questioned, was the Museum vulnerable if the exhibition went ahead? We will never know how much LGBT affirmative work never came to pass as a result of self-censorship.
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Matthew Hodson
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Update on a new approach that just might (do not hold your breath - it’s a long shot and far away) lead to a vaccine against HIV, or even a functional cure.
www.aidsmap.com/news/jun-202...
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Matthew Hodson
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Daringly unbuttoned in Ōsaka.
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I had been diagnosed with HIV just a couple of months before my proposal for Pride and Prejudice was accepted, although I told nobody this. I thought it may be the last thing I achieved. I would not have imagined then that I would survive as long as I have, nor guessed the turns my life would take.
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Oh you! Thank you gorgeous! Xx
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25 years ago I conceived and co-curated the first exhibition about LGBT lives (yes, it included the T 💜) to be held at a major UK museum, the Museum of London.
Hell yes, I’m proud of that.
#PrideMonth
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I don’t care what you say, these pants are awesome!
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"I'm sorry for not having the courage to come out as gay. Seeing how people like me were treated, I just could not do it. Now that my secret is known, I'll forever Rest in Peace."
A US veteran chose to come out only after his death.
We still need Pride. 🏳️🌈
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Tempting!
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I am at the beach. Without a shirt. Apologies.
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Oh you!
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Why is Canada so bad at providing PrEP?
New study:
www.aidsmap.com/news/jun-202...
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Matthew Hodson
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At last, I have good reason to use the ⛩️ emoji.
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Men’s attitudes create barriers to women’s use of PrEP.
www.aidsmap.com/news/jun-202...
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Matthew Hodson
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HIV doesn’t judge or discriminate. It can’t, it’s just a virus.
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Matthew Hodson
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I will remain an active supporter and friend to aidsmap and I look forward to seeing the organisation grow and evolve under new leadership. HIV is (literally) in my blood so I will continue to advocate for the health, rights and dignity of all people living with HIV.
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