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Gordon is a former employee who has worked and volunteered for Terrence Higgins Trust for over 15 years.

He wanted to do something about HIV and how it was affecting him and his friends since the early 1990s. He started doing scene-based outreach in 1995 and completed his HIV Buddy Training later that year. After receiving his own HIV diagnosis in 2004, he accessed services to help people who were coming to terms with their own recent diagnosis, including a Terrence Higgins Trust Newly Diagnosed Group.

Today, he works for ViiV healthcare in the Positive Action team that supports community-led efforts to address HIV and AIDS, promote sexual health and wellbeing and advance social and economic justice for men who have sex with men and transgender people. He is an experienced public speaker for Mind, the mental health charity, and the Positive Voices Programme at Terrence Higgins Trust, and mentors people living with HIV on the Work Positive programme.

He is a passionate campaigner and activist for the rights of people living with HIV, men who have sex with men, and trans people. Through sharing his personal perspective on what it’s like to live with HIV, he hopes to encourage a better understanding of how stigma and discrimination impact the lives of those affected by the virus.