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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Wesley Holmes

Photographer recalls time of 'fear and horror' when people were 'disappearing'

The bravery and determination of Liverpool's older HIV+ community will be told in a series of striking photographs.

Growing Old Positively, by Old Swan photographer Lee Wolfy and LGBTQ+ charity Sahir House, will tell the stories of older HIV+ people who lived through the mass panic and despair of the 1980s and 90s, when the virus first hit the UK.

Lee, 51, who has been capturing the lives of the North West's gay community in photos for more than 10 years, said: "Great advancements with drugs and medication mean that HIV+ people are able to live long, happy successful lives, and we wanted to capture that. I often work with positive representation of the gay community, and body positivity is a huge part of what I do - celebrating the lives of gay men in the North West - and this is an extension of that.

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