Sue, Stephen and David are joined on Zoom by Joshua Royal who talks about his projects for HIV The Naked Truth. Rachel Brett, CEO of The Sussex Beacon tells David the exciting news about the medical services reopening and also offering palliative and end of life care to the LGBT+ community. Stephen talks about his recent appearance on BBC Radio London. The group also briefly mention how Artificial Intelligence, (A.I.), is starting to appear in the medical world.

HAPPY BRIGHTON PRIDE EVERYONE!!

Sue, David and Josh chat about all things Pride in this special edition.

On the show,
With the upcoming Zero HIV Stigma Day approaching.
Sue, David and Josh chat to Gary Pargeter from Lunch Positive about the important event.
https://themartinfisherfoundation.org/zero-hiv-stigma-day-2025/
https://lunchpositive.org/

World, UK and local HIV stories including the amazing news from Sussex Beacon.
https://sussexbeacon.org.uk/

On the show,
David and Josh chat to Graham , chair bear of Brighton Bear Weekend in its 15th year. The upcoming amazing weekend which raises funds for local HIV and LGBTQ organisations.
Check out their website for more details below
https://brightonbearweekend.com/

World, national and local HIV Community News

Check out "The Music" below
https://li.sten.to/THEMUSIC

Philip visits Tate Modern to view the AIDS Memorial Quilt and interviews some well known activists and celebrities, an instagram video of his interviews is on the front page of www.HIVHour.org.uk.
On a theme of quilts, we also replay the call to submit selfies to the U=U quilt project from Positive East, https://www.positiveeast.org.uk/uequalsu/ 

Stephen joins us on Zoom from New York and tells us about his Shadowed Dreamer return to off broadway for the first time in 16 years.
Sue celebrates the success of  the Terrence Higgins Trust “Can’t pass it on” campaign that piloted in Brighton.
Music is from Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Neneh Cherry and Faithless

Community news about Dragsy Malone, and Rose Garden’s Swap Shop, fundraisers for the Sussex Beacon at Queens Arms.

Also a reminder of Lunch Positives Eastbourne group, Tuesday drop ins and Friday Lunch Club

Internationally, June 5th is Long Term Survivors Day. Les Wright (USA), has created an anthology of long term survivors and Mark Stevens (positive voices speaker) was one of the participants. Together they will be holding events in London to launch the book in August in the UK.

On the show
Flash Bezuidenhout and Emrys chatting about their amazing bike ride for the charity ‘Checkpoint Maspalomas’
Sue Hunter talking about the new Brighton launch of ‘Can’t Pass it On’ 

https://www.tht.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/our-campaigns/cant-pass-it-on

Community news

On the show
David and Josh chat to the amazing Jo Josh about her HIV Journey and the upcoming BHIVA conference in Brighton.
https://bhiva.org/event/bhiva-spring-conference-2025/

Find out more about Jo's HIV projects here
https://ukcab.net/our-team/jo-josh/

World, UK and local HIV news 

Gary Pargeter, Director of Lunch Positive, is our guest in the studio this episode. Michael Brimacome from THT is interviewed by Josh.