Events tagged with "Body Positive"
ABplus
ABplus was founded in 1996 by a group of HIV positive gay men. The organisation rose from the ashes of Body Positive which had folded the previous year. The group aims to be a peer support network for anyone living with or affected by HIV/AIDS....
HIV the early years
In the early years of the HIV epidemic the medical establishment could provide no solution to the crisis; infection with HIV often led to AIDS which meant a slow and painful death. This period is now commonly referred to as the AIDS crisis and gay co...
Memories tagged with "Body Positive"
Abplus how it began
ABplus began life out of the ashes of Body Positive, founded by Tom and Ray, the former chairman of Body Positive. It originally met in peoples houses and then in 1996 they got rooms in the Gazette Buildings, Corporation Street. Abplus was formed to ...
AIDSline West Midlands the demise
AIDSline West Midlands closed a year after Body Positive folded in 1996. “They were providing support services and buddying, but they had a big internal squabble as some of the original founders thought the telephone line they operated was the most i...
Body Positive
“Body Positive came out of AIDSline West Midlands, when they moved from Hurst Street to Smithfield House in Digbeth, Body Positive took over the room they had used at the Nightingale in 1987, on Thorp Street. I had attended occasionally before I move...
Body Positive Crashed Spectacularly
"They decided to move because the building was under-used and due to a rent renewal they decided to move premises to Princip Street by St.Chads Cathedral in the beginning of 1995. "The building had lots of potential but needed a lot of work "I said t...
Hundreds Join AIDS Vigil
This editorial from 'In The Pink', December 1989, reports the first World Aids Day Candlelight Vigil in Birmingham and also highlights the way some right wing politicians used the human tragedy of the AIDS crisis to further their ideology.HUNDREDS JO...