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Matthew Hodson
@Matthew_Hodson
Currently only posting selfies / writing about HIV and LGBTQ+ rights on other platforms. Come find me on 🦋 or 🧵. Links in my last post here. 🙏😘
London, Europe
Joined September 2010
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Nov 11, 2024
    I’ve had some great times here, made new connections, learned loads and, I hope, offered insight on HIV and LGBTQ issues. I’m going to take a break from X for a while. I will be on 🧵 and 🦋. If you’ve enjoyed me, I’d be grateful if you shared this so others can find me. 🙏😘
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    BlueSky handle: @matthewhodson.bsky.social
    Threads handle: @matthewhodsonlondon
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Nov 6, 2024
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Aug 9, 2024
    When I was diagnosed with HIV, aged 30, I was told I could expect to live for another 20 years. Today I turn 57. HIV treatment works. Tell everyone.
    Me in a pub, smiling. I was probably about 29 in this picture. I’m wearing a loose grey checked shirt over a white tshirt - this was a standard gay look at the time.
    Me, earlier this year. I’m watching a sunset on Lion Rock in Sri Lanka. I’m wearing a boldly patterned shirt and a contented smile.
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Aug 9, 2021
    I was diagnosed with #HIV 23 years ago. At the time I doubted I would live to 50. Today is my 54th birthday. HIV has changed. Tell everyone.
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    Matthew Hodson
    @Matthew_Hodson
    Aug 9, 2022
    When I was diagnosed with #HIV 24 years ago I doubted I would live to 50. Today I turn 55. The drugs that keep me alive also mean I can’t pass HIV on. HIV changed. Tell everyone.
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Feb 17, 2024
    Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. His last piece of art, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
    A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Apr 10, 2023
    “Orlando had become a woman… Their change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity… but in future we must, for convention’s sake, say ‘her’ for ‘his’ and ‘she’ for ‘he’.” Virginia Woolf having no problems with pronouns in 1928.
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Feb 18, 2024
    A 🧵 on #AIDS in the 80s/90s: I was 15 when I first had sex with a man. I’d snuck off to London’s Heaven nightclub with the express intent of ridding myself of my ‘gay virginity’, a goal I achieved easily with a visiting American photographer. 1/13 #LGBTplusHM #UnderTheScope
    A black and white photo of me at 17. I’m leaning over a chair wearing a baggy grey jumper. My hair is awesome.
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Apr 30, 2024
    Today is the anniversary of my HIV diagnosis. I was 30 and had lost many friends to AIDS. The doctor told me that with treatment I could expect to live another twenty years. That was 26 years ago. HIV changed. Tell everyone.
    Me aged 30. This was just a couple of months before I received my HIV diagnosis.
    Me on Lion Rock, Sigiriya, earlier this month. The sun was setting and I’m grinning from ear to ear (I was feeling very happy).
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Aug 14, 2024
    26 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
    The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998.
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Aug 9, 2020
    I was diagnosed with #HIV 22 years ago. At the time I doubted I would live to 50. Today is my 53rd birthday. HIV has changed. Tell everyone.
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    Matthew Hodson
    @Matthew_Hodson
    Jun 21, 2023
    I have been called a fag and a bender and a poof but I’ve never had someone shout out, ‘Oi, cis!’ at me. #CisIsNotASlur
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Jun 29, 2021
    I knew Justin Fashanu, the first professional footballer to come out as gay (we had a brief thing). He was hounded by the press and the crowds and took his life at 37. Seeing Harry Kane wearing a rainbow armband - it matters. 🙏 #Pride matters. #Euros2021
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Dec 1, 2021
    I was diagnosed with #HIV when I was 30. At the time, I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 54 now. HIV has changed. Tell everyone. #WorldAIDSDay
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    Matthew Hodson
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    Jul 26, 2023
    Sinead O’Connor played Gay Pride in 1988, alongside Erasure, just a month after Section 28 had been passed. Pride back then was much more of a protest, lesbians and gays were treated as 2nd class citizens. Performing at Pride was a sign of allyship, when there were few to be had.
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