Almost forty years ago, a mysterious illness swept through the gay community. What started off as whispers of a deadly disease over in America soon spiralled into a worldwide epidemic and came crashing into the lives of those in the United Kingdom.
By the end of the 1980s, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. But all these decades later, stories exploring the impact on the UK gay community have largely gone untold.
A year on from the release of the Chanel 4 drama It's a Sin, HIV positive men and members of the gay community in Wales have credited the program in helping them to finally come to terms with their diagnosis and to encourage conversations about the virus to squash the stigma.
