NEW AIDS QUILT: WAD25
For World AIDS Day 2025 I undertook an eight‑week challenge to create eight new AIDS panels, each a piece of a single 12 ft by 12 ft display‑ready quilt intended to join the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt. The panels commemorated individuals featured in my podcast "AIDS: The Lost Voices" individual names, dates and symbols chosen to reflect lives, activism and the quieter moments lost to the epidemic.
AIDS: THE LOST VOICES
In a series finale Will & Gloria head to Brighton for the bank holiday weekend. The pair learn about the life of the UK’s first openly gay football referee, Norman Redman from West Sussex. Norman had to first contend with teams refusing to play because he was “homosexual”. Then teams refused to play when they learned Norman was “an AIDS carrier” as they deemed him “a health risk”.
AIDS, THE LOST VOICES
Two men around 30, each with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis are on the same hospital ward. One is a patient and the other, a nurse. Both men were photographed with the late Diana, Princess of Wales . But who were these courageous men, what happened to them and what impact did they have on HIV/AIDS stigma?