The Martin Fisher Foundation is a partnership of people living with HIV, community representatives & clinicians. The charity's aim is to end the HIV epidemic and eliminate HIV stigma by 2030. With effective treatment, HIV is like any other long- term medical condition. One tablet a day can suppress the virus and stop it from being passed on. People diagnosed early with HIV and started on treatment can remain fit and well, and live as long as anyone else.

The celebration and launch of the Martin Fisher Foundation takes place on 14th September 2015, 14:00–16:15 at Brighton Dome. To include a tribute film, Towards Zero, a call to action led by Baroness Gould and Professor Jane Anderson, personal pledges and music. 16:15–18:00: opportunity for meeting old and new friends at the foyer bar.

Informative leaflet distributed by the NHS about masturbation, including the perception of masturbation in wider society, common myths, and benefits of masturbation including how it can be utilised in the practice of safer sex. The leaflet aims to inform readers about masturbation and destigmatise and reduce shame around the practice. Published in September 2011 by the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health which is a part of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

Maurice’s story - 19 December 1987 ‘I developed swellings in my glands and my bowel movements became difficult. I told my doctor, whose reaction was “glands, that’s nothing - feel mine. I hope you’re not becoming obsessed with your bowels.” I was sent for a blood test, but as there was no HIV test in 1982, I was told that I must have picked up a virus which had now gone. But I think that it could have been HIV as two years ago I was diagnosed as being antibody positive. Since that day, I have to thank the Sussex AIDS Helpline, from whom I had support from the first moment of the shock of my diagnosis. I very soon joined the Helpline myself - it was the only way I could cope with everything. I had to know as much as I could about AIDS. After a while I realised I wanted to work with people with AIDS, so I did a course in massage techniques, so I could offer something useful to the people I worked with. Because I have had a full life, I can’t be too sad, though I’m not ready to go yet and I’m going to put up a fight. The people I feel sorry for are the young ones who thought they had a full life to lead, and now live in fear and doubt. Today at St. Peter’s Church, I witnessed the most beautiful service of my life – a memorial to those in Sussex who have died of AIDS. Bless whoever in the Helpline who first thought of this. I shall remember it for the rest of my life, however long that might be, and I shall remember my departed friends.’ Maurice died on the 12 January 1988, quite suddenly but peacefully.

Memory of pride 2024 The text reads: I have great memories from Pride last year (2024). My aunt came to visit from Italy and we saw the parade and wandered around the city taking in the atmosphere. She then went to see the Mika gig in Preston Park, which she loved. I love the way Pride takes over the city and the joy and colour everywhere.

Queer student night. The music played would range from Deftones to Avril Lavigne.

A memory of the Museum of Transology at Brighton

Programme for 'My Fair Cinders Ain't So Hot'. A pantomime produced by Brighton's Alternative Pantomime. The programme contains the cast, acts, credits and advertisements for local businesses.

Grey t-shirt printed with a black banner reading 'MY GENDERATION'

Flyer advertising a play called 'My Night With Reg' by Kevin Elyot, performed at the Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, 16–20 October 1996.

The black and white pronoun badge shows: 'My pronouns are he/him/his'.

The black and white pronoun badge shows 'My pronouns are they/them/theirs'.

The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed at the Corn Exchange in Brighton between the 1st and 3rd of June 1993

National AIDS Memorial Quilt On the 14 March 1992, Our House Body Positive & Pink Parasol held their first support group to encourage Brighton contributions to the National AIDS Memorial quilt at the Morley Street Family Centre. At this first session the film ‘Common Threads – Stories from the Quilt’ was shown, and this inspired me to create a quilt panel for my friend Andrea Philippe Regard. A series of exhibitions of the completed 6’ x 3’ panels celebrating the lives of people who died was arranged as part of the 1992 Brighton Lesbian and Gay Pride. On the 17th May (then known as Lesbian & Gay Remembrance Day - now International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) some of the quilt panels were displayed in the Brighton Museum, and then between the 19th and 21st May the whole National AIDS Memorial Quilt was laid out at the Holy Trinity Church, Ship Street - now the home of the Fabrica Gallery. The quilt which my ex-partner Alf Le Flohic and his friend John Twoomey helped me to make, was also displayed at the Brighton Gay and Lesbian Pride celebration in Preston Park that year.

Grey and white box of nebido with a sticker from Kamsons Pharmacy St James Street, Brighton