Matthew Hodson

Me in Park Legii, an island on the river in the centre of Prague.

Being a basic tourist.
#Prague

Unfortunately this makes our Nige look kind of loveable.

Absolutely!

Me and Jackie Forster on the Leeds march. I’m holding a placard saying Stop the Clause.

On this day in 1988, 2000 people took to the streets of Leeds for a Stop the Clause protest.
The clause was an amendment to the Local Government Act intended to suppress public discussion of homosexuality. It became known as Section 28.
At the time 75% of people believed homosexuality was wrong.

To be fair, it also says Kerala behind me and I’m not there.
But yes, Prague.

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Xx

Me taking the selfie featured in the OP.

The lovely @kahojakeleung.bsky.social just pipped the also lovely @dawnbritten.bsky.social.
I was at the Lennon Wall in Prague.

Thank you.

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Excellent choices from @dorianawards.bsky.social with 7 big wins for Sinners, Best LGBTQ movie going to the underloved Pillion and a lifetime achievement award for the marvellous Tim Curry.
deadline.com/2026/03/dori...

I’ll disagree with you on Daniel Radcliffe.
He’s a staunch ally for LGBTQ people. And he did Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway, helping to turn Sondheim’s greatest flop into his biggest hit. So he’s earned my love.

😘

Standing in front of a graffitified and stickered wall with the caption Freedom and Energy.

Where am I?

Prize* for first correct answer - or for best wrong answer.

*Prize has no cash value, may not be transferred or exchanged and probably does not exist.

Love Lambeth Film screening and plaque re-installation in honour of 1980s classic film ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ took place on the last day of LBGTQ+ History Month

The plaque is on Wilcox Road, SW8 - between Wandsworth Road and South Lambeth Road.
love.lambeth.gov.uk/rainbow-plaq...

It’s on Wilcox Road, SW8.
Between South Lambeth and Wandsworth Roads.

Picture of the MBL team by the plaque.

Picture of the plaque.

On Sunday I attended the unveiling of the restored Rainbow Plaque, marking the location of Powders Laundrette in the movie.
Gordon Warnecke (Omar), writer Hanif Kureshi and director Stephen Frears were all in attendance.

🙏🥰

Trans lives are more important than Harry Potter. 💜

My Beautiful Laundrette was released in 1985.
The champagne exchange between Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke was the first gay kiss I saw on a big screen - and I went back and watched it at the cinema two more times after.

I played another character the same evening and the ‘stache was even more pertinent for him.
Will probably post later.

‘And only this torments my wretched soul, that whether I will or no thou must depart.’

Me as the queer King and Dan Waterhouse as his lover in an extract from Marlowe’s Edward II at the @queertheatreuk.bsky.social Winter Outcast showcase.
Dir. @andrewkeates.bsky.social.

Half the participants from placebo arm of HIV cure trial have prolonged viral load remission when given broadly neutralising antibodies In the second phase of the RIO HIV cure trial, participants originally given a placebo were offered the experimental therapy, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) he...

More than half of participants in a small HIV cure trial maintained a low enough viral load to stay off treatment for 20 weeks.
One participant remains undetectable after a year.
Note: while this is encouraging, the different responses indicate the prospect of a cure for all remains distant.

I’d give you the part.

PrEP uptake was already low – and then came the cuts Even before the Trump government slashed its overseas HIV budget last year, with prevention facing some of the deepest cuts, very few countries in the world had enough people using PrEP to substantial...

PrEP is not reaching enough of the people most at risk, to end the HIV epidemic - and Trump’s aid cuts have made a bad situation worse.
It was hoped that new infections could be almost eliminated by 2030, now it’s projected that more people will acquire HIV in 2030 than in 2024.

As it’s the last day of #LGBTQHistoryMonth (in the UK), here’s a thread about growing up gay in the 1980s/90s, facing the threat of AIDS and the introduction of Section 28.

Yeah, I get that.
Please hand him his arse in the midterms.
Thank you.

Counting the costs of global HIV funding disruptions In a session on US government funding cuts at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) held in Denver, US this week, Dr Jennifer Kates, from the Kaiser Family Foundation...

It’s estimated that PEPFAR (the bi-partisan President’s fund to tackle AIDS) has saved 26 million lives since 2003.
But in 2025, PEPFAR’s lifesaving momentum was slowed down by Trump’s administration, which has radically different ideas about global health funding – particularly for #HIV.

Yeah, I’m screwed.

CD8 cell fitness predicts who benefits most from antibody-based cure strategies Over the last few years a number of studies aiming to cure HIV or at least achieve long-term viral suppression off antiretroviral therapy (ART) have produced tantalising results. These studies have gi...

In HIV cure studies (utilising broadly neutralising antibodies) some participants can stay off treatment without viral rebound for much longer than others.
New study sheds light on why - and asks whether the same response could be induced in others.

Me with a kettle bell, outside in the sunshine.

Me with Ash.

#ThrowbackThursday
Remember when it was warm, dry and sunny?*

*Yesterday. It was literally yesterday.

Photos: With Ash of Smash Mind and Body.