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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We have launched our PrEP CLINIC for new starters to PrEP. PrEP CLINIC runs every first and third Thursday of the month between 4pm-6pm at the Trade office This is also an opportunity to see if PrEP is right for you Book here - bit.ly/TSHbooking

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Rad Trans Leicester have something planned for next Wednesday lunchtime

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Until I think of a more suitable prize, please accept the school badge (those maroon blazers did not flatter anyone)

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The School of Archaeology was actually named after Kathleen Kenyon by staff and students on International Women's Day, 2019 BBC News - University of Leicester to honour pioneering female archaeologist - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A pink sheet with the words 'Kathleen Kenyon Building' hang out of the windows of a two-storey brutalist building (housing the University of Leicester's School of Archaeology and Ancient History), International Women's Day, 2019

Group of women and non-binary people dance amongst purple, white, and green smoke - an International Women's Day strike at University of Leicester, March 2019

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We organised a Red Ribbon Remembrance walk today around sites connected with the history of HIV in Leicester today and left behind some DIY heritage plaques before lighting a red ribbon of light in Town Hall Square #WorldAIDSDay

A large AIDS red ribbon with a small plaque on it attached to railings outside the former site of the Leicester LGBT Centre

A circle of people crouching down to light red tea light candles in the shape of an AIDS red ribbon on the ground

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've just realised that it has been three years since I heard that Billy Quiet had died. Billy was part of the Lesbian Avengers' action in 2000 that painted a London bus - because Brian Souter from Stagecoach was campaigning against the repeal of Section 28.

In the foreground, 4 young women and non binary people lean against railings. They are smiling or shouting. Four police officers stand between them and a London bus which has been completely covered in bright pink paint

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

One of the things I've been enjoying about @mauricejcasey.bsky.social's Hotel Lux is the periodic appearances of Sylvia Pankhurst. As a teenager growing up in Woodford, learning of the existence of Sylvia's anti-aerial bombing monument, 10 minutes' walk away changed my perception of the place

A printed flier for the unveiling of the first anti-aerial warfare protest monument in Woodford Wells on Sunday 21st Ju e 1936, with hand-drawn etching of the monument (a falling bomb on a plinth) in a tree-lined garden

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Come and work with me - Trade are recruiting a new Health Promotion Worker to lead our sexual health and HIV prevention work across Leicestershire and Rutland, and contribute to other projects supporting LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing. Application pack 👉 bit.ly/JOT22TSH

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

A while back, I imagined us weaving a large red ribbon for World AIDS Day. Thanks to @leicesterliz.bsky.social and @chrisaw.bsky.social for building it and the many others who helped weave the spell

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Today, the eve of World AIDS Day, is the 25th anniversary of the death, from an AIDS-related illness, of Simon Nkoli. Simon was a black gay leader in the South African anti-apartheid struggle. He co-organised the first Pride march on the African continent. He was a fierce queen

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Today is also the anniversary of my Dad's death in 2009. Another David who profoundly shaped me (giggler and atrocious punner, taunter of Tories, holder of unconventional opinions, explorer of special interest rabbit holes)

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Dublin Bay looked pretty stunning in the late afternoon light earlier

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I was at a voluntary sector conference today where the keynote spoke in the most paternalistic way about how charities step in to do the state's work and 'save' people, when the state won't. They didn't take questions, but if they had, mine would probably have paraphrased Gustav Landauer

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

I was supposed to be in Vienna last week for an academic workshop. I didn't go in the end for a variety of reasons (mostly spoons). But the wonderful Xin Pan appreciated my main motivation for visiting Vienna and sent me this and many similar photos of the Hundertwasser Haus

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Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

I found my 17 yo self (on the left of the pic) in the pages of Capital Gay from this week in 1987 posted on the Back To The Bell facebook group

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