These are the subjects that we have covered in recent meetings. If you
are logged into the system you can click on the meeting date to display
the full minutes.
| 17 Nov 2008 |
GMG Meeting 17th Nov 2008 |
| 10 Nov 2008 |
The return of the Lesbian & Gay Community Centre! |
| 03 Nov 2008 |
Lack of Hospital Department Treatment Co-ordination |
| 27 Oct 2008 |
Where is the Common Sense ! Why should courier home delivery be cheaper than hospital pharmacy dispensing of prescriptions? |
| 20 Oct 2008 |
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| 13 Oct 2008 |
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| 06 Oct 2008 |
Newly Diagnosed Disclosure & The Brazilian Bum Job |
| 29 Sep 2008 |
Since Diagnosis - What have I done with my Life? |
| 22 Sep 2008 |
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| 15 Sep 2008 |
Loss of Confidence In Returning to the Workplace after HIV Diagnosis |
| 08 Sep 2008 |
An Audience with Robert Fieldhouse |
| 01 Sep 2008 |
'Positive Buddying' at the Group |
| 25 Aug 2008 |
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| 18 Aug 2008 |
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| 04 Aug 2008 |
USA Travel Law Barring HIV+Ve People Repealed, Bigoted Bishops |
| 28 Jul 2008 |
Benefits System & Lack of remaining ''Gay +Ve Community'' |
| 21 Jul 2008 |
DRUG TRIALS - Should I agree to be a test patient:? - Side Effects |
| 14 Jul 2008 |
Loss of Libido & Positive Fatherhood |
| 07 Jul 2008 |
Home Alone & I HAD TO TELL Him!!! BUT DO YOU? |
| 30 Jun 2008 |
Homophobic Abuse, Tame HIV Campaigns & Are you 'Out' about your Status? |
| 23 Jun 2008 |
London GMG Monday 23 June 2008 Newsletter |
| 16 Jun 2008 |
DLA Review Experiences (Got ur letter?) & Saving Money at your Clinic |
| 09 Jun 2008 |
KS, Starting Meds., Are Doctors influenced by drug companies? |
| 02 Jun 2008 |
Ongoing DLA Review Concerns, Dentists & When to Start Medication |
| 26 May 2008 |
No Meeting - May Bank Holiday |
| 19 May 2008 |
Stepping Outside and Looking Back - Casman and Positive Thinking |
| 12 May 2008 |
Disposing of Spare Meds, Checking your prostate & Poppers Burns |
| 05 May 2008 |
No Meeting Held - May Day Bank Holiday - Chelsea Physic Garden Trip |
| 28 Apr 2008 |
A fresh start at Grays Inn Road, Group re-opens to new members |
| 21 Apr 2008 |
DLA Review /Goodbye Soho Walk In Centre Hello THT Offices Kings Cross |
| 14 Apr 2008 |
Bring Food to Share, Meeting to Move to a Free Meeting Space |
| 07 Apr 2008 |
Setting up the Gay Men's Group as an Unincorporated Association |
| 31 Mar 2008 |
THE LAST (PCT funded) SUPPER & Does the past hold the key to the future? |
| 24 Mar 2008 |
No Meeting Held - Easter Bank Holiday - The Way Forward for the Group |
| 17 Mar 2008 |
The Funding Hokey Cokey |
| 10 Mar 2008 |
Distressed & Distraught, Tragedy & Travesty, Anger & Sadness, Determination & Support - The Way Forward Post PCT funding cuts |
| 03 Mar 2008 |
PCT funding to be pulled from GMG 1st April, MidWeek goes MidMonth |
| 25 Feb 2008 |
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| 18 Feb 2008 |
Meeting Cancelled - No Facilitation Available |
| 11 Feb 2008 |
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| 04 Feb 2008 |
The Rise and Fall of CD4 Count and Infrequent Testing |
| 28 Jan 2008 |
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| 21 Jan 2008 |
Homophobic Abuse in your Neighbourhood & Neuropathy |
| 14 Jan 2008 |
TELLING NEW PARTNERS ABOUT YOUR STATUS ''I’m HIV +Ve … Me Too!'' |
| 07 Jan 2008 |
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| 31 Dec 2007 |
No Meeting Held - New Years Eve |
| 24 Dec 2007 |
No Meeting Held - Christmas Eve |
| 17 Dec 2007 |
Brew! |
| 10 Dec 2007 |
Starting Medication - Fight or Flight |
| 03 Dec 2007 |
Time Stands Still in the Dark - the Risks We Take / Call to Action |
| 26 Nov 2007 |
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| 19 Nov 2007 |
Meeting Cancelled - No facilitation available |
| 12 Nov 2007 |
Safer Venues – Code of Good Practice for Sex On Premises Venues |
| 05 Nov 2007 |
Hookups; Gaydar Vs OutintheUK, Integrated Health (Complementary Therapy) |
| 29 Oct 2007 |
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| 22 Oct 2007 |
In your Wake, Pneumovax Vaccine/Flu Jabs, Stigma in HIV Service Provision |
| 15 Oct 2007 |
Consequences of playing the STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) BINGO ... |
| 08 Oct 2007 |
Safer Venues, US Travel with Meds, Hot Flushes&Low Energy |
| 01 Oct 2007 |
STI's in Relation to HIV |
| 24 Sep 2007 |
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| 17 Sep 2007 |
Clinic Doctors Vs GP's & Creating an 'HIV Educated Environment' |
| 10 Sep 2007 |
Seroconversion & Gay Gorillas |
| 03 Sep 2007 |
London Poz Guyz |
| 27 Aug 2007 |
No Meeting held - August Bank Holiday |
| 20 Aug 2007 |
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| 13 Aug 2007 |
Refused Entry to US with HIV meds & Freedom Passes/Blue Badges |
| 06 Aug 2007 |
No more tea & sympathy - Experience of a Drug Holiday |
| 30 Jul 2007 |
UKC melodramatically folds |
| 23 Jul 2007 |
Vitamin & Mineral Supplementation |
| 16 Jul 2007 |
DLA Review Concerns, HIV services at GP's? Last issue of Positive Nation |
| 09 Jul 2007 |
THT Building the Future Consultation discussion |
| 02 Jul 2007 |
Group arrangements for next 2 wks - THT 'Building the Future' |
| 25 Jun 2007 |
minutes of gmg meeting 25 june 2007 |
| 18 Jun 2007 |
Disclosure of HIV Status when applying for work |
| 11 Jun 2007 |
Gay is passe, HIV is the new Politic |
| 04 Jun 2007 |
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| 28 May 2007 |
No Meeting Held - May Bank Holiday |
| 21 May 2007 |
HEALTHY RESPECT Campaign, Positive Nation Magazine Facing Closure |
| 14 May 2007 |
Creating a separate Group Constitution for fundraising for social activities |
| 07 May 2007 |
No Meeting Held - May Day Bank Holiday |
| 30 Apr 2007 |
Gay Role Models, Str8 acting: Homophobia Within the Gay Community |
| 23 Apr 2007 |
By George! A revised Group Agreement |
| 16 Apr 2007 |
Disclosure: Keeping it in the family? |
| 09 Apr 2007 |
No Meeting Held - Easter Bank Holiday |
| 02 Apr 2007 |
Should we tolerate ''ism's'' on the commercial gay scene? |
| 26 Mar 2007 |
Regular Meeting Monday 26th March |
| 19 Mar 2007 |
Regular meeting including useful info on up coming events |
| 12 Mar 2007 |
NAM Forum – The Future of HIV treatment, Ground Rules=Group Agreement |
| 05 Mar 2007 |
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| 26 Feb 2007 |
When to disclose +ve status for Casual Sex |
| 19 Feb 2007 |
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| 12 Feb 2007 |
Chosing/Returning to Meds - The Truth about Food : your Pyloric Sphincter |
| 05 Feb 2007 |
TRIPLE POWER - Lisa Power - THT's Head of Policy returns to talk to the group |
| 29 Jan 2007 |
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| 22 Jan 2007 |
Is there a link between becoming +Ve and recreational drug use? |
| 15 Jan 2007 |
Hypnotherapy & Relaxation - HIV Immune response study |
| 08 Jan 2007 |
Disclosure of HIV+ve status and sexuality and our rights under Employment Law |
| 01 Jan 2007 |
No Meeting Held - New Year Bank Holiday |
| 25 Dec 2006 |
No Meeting Held - Christmas Bank Holiday |
| 18 Dec 2006 |
Sporadic Memory Loss / Golden Showers - 'Amoroli' an alternative cure! |
| 11 Dec 2006 |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - do gay men living with HIV suffer? |
| 04 Dec 2006 |
Taking time off work to recouperate and cope with the stress of HIV |
| 27 Nov 2006 |
Tired after a weekend of partying hard – lifestyle or HIV related? |
| 20 Nov 2006 |
Positive thoughts about being +Ve |
| 13 Nov 2006 |
Continuity of care and quality time with our HIV consultants |
| 06 Nov 2006 |
Myelopathy & A Patients Union to protect our rights/Legal Advocacy |
| 30 Oct 2006 |
K-Pax Vitamin Supplementation & Disclosing to old acquaintances |
| 23 Oct 2006 |
Flu Jabs & HIV Related Distress and Personal Growth Research |
| 16 Oct 2006 |
Gareth Davies leads group & What our Dreams Are Made of ... |
| 09 Oct 2006 |
It's NOT THE FINAL DESTINATION ... but IT'S THE JOURNEY that's IMPORTANT |
| 02 Oct 2006 |
Are we Discriminating against Deaf +Ve Gay Men? & New Facilitator Search |
| 25 Sep 2006 |
Detox Diets and Visionary Hospice Care |
| 18 Sep 2006 |
Lance to Step down as Facilitator |
| 11 Sep 2006 |
Anxiety, Dentists, Planning Treatment breaks for a holiday and Home Delivery of Medication |
| 04 Sep 2006 |
ENSURING +Ve FUTURES - UKC's Jill Critchley : Case Management in practice |
| 28 Aug 2006 |
No Meeting Held - August Bank Holiday |
| 21 Aug 2006 |
Male Rape and Missing Doses |
| 14 Aug 2006 |
Pic-nic in Soho Square |
| 07 Aug 2006 |
Disclosure to Professionals in Medical/Non-Medical Settings |
| 31 Jul 2006 |
Facilitator off sick |
| 24 Jul 2006 |
Lipodystrophy & The ill-informed youth : a receptacle for anything that prodded him! |
| 17 Jul 2006 |
Do you feel more ‘’IN CONTROL’’ or ‘’OUT OF CONTROL’’ since diagnosis? |
| 10 Jul 2006 |
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| 03 Jul 2006 |
Hot and Sticky .... Disclosure! and EURO Pride |
| 26 Jun 2006 |
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| 19 Jun 2006 |
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| 12 Jun 2006 |
INSOMNIA - Effavirenz; the drug we all love to hate, and ''ROOTS & SHOOTS'' |
| 05 Jun 2006 |
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| 29 May 2006 |
No Meeting Held - Bank Holiday Monday |
| 22 May 2006 |
Disclosing HIV status in the workplace - Pro's and Cons |
| 15 May 2006 |
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| 08 May 2006 |
POWER SESSION – Lisa Power, THT’s Head of Policy talks about Criminal Prosecutions for Transmission of HIV |
| 01 May 2006 |
No Meeting Held - May Day Bank Holiday |
| 24 Apr 2006 |
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| 17 Apr 2006 |
No Meeting Held - Easter Bank Holiday |
| 10 Apr 2006 |
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| 03 Apr 2006 |
Reactions to Disclosure of +Ve Status - Doing your own risk assessment |
| 27 Mar 2006 |
Do gay men, drugs and alcohol mix? How does being +Ve change our attititude to the Scene. |
| 20 Mar 2006 |
The 'Real' Sex in the City |
| 13 Mar 2006 |
Sex in the City: What motivates us to have sex and how does our self worth affect this? |
| 06 Mar 2006 |
SUPER FLY GUY : The Group's THT sponsored Flyer has been printed and is ready for volunteers to circulate |
| 27 Feb 2006 |
Please don't let me be Misunderstood ... |
| 20 Feb 2006 |
Out of Balance - What happens when we stop having sex in our relationships? |
| 13 Feb 2006 |
Reporting Homophobic Abuse : The LGBT Officer's role in the Metropolitan Police |
| 06 Feb 2006 |
Does being +Ve Change our Attitude to Risk? How far would you go for 'Mr Right'? |
| 30 Jan 2006 |
MOTIVATION - Training ourselves to overcome our automatic responses to change : Trust,Intention,Focus & Visualise |
| 23 Jan 2006 |
Positive Benefits/Negative Side Effects of Living with HIV |
| 16 Jan 2006 |
DIAGNOSIS, How did you/do you feel? SUPPORT,''HIV is something I only do 2 hours a week on a Monday night'' |
| 09 Jan 2006 |
New Year's Resolutions - a time for refocus, Welcoming Lance as facilitator |
| 02 Jan 2006 |
No Meeting Held - New Years Bank Holiday |
| 26 Dec 2005 |
No Meeting Held - Christmas Bank Holiday |
| 19 Dec 2005 |
No Meeting Held - Post GMG Bromptons Christmas Party Recovery |
| 12 Dec 2005 |
Disclosure – ''I am HIV positive and it isn’t a problem is it'', Wishing Tony well for the future & Brompton's Christmas Party |
| 05 Dec 2005 |
THT Counseling Service and PACE Workshops - Living with HIV Abroad : USA & Cuba |
| 28 Nov 2005 |
Over time everyone has the power to heal themselves - Steps to happiness and having a normal life-span living with HIV |
| 21 Nov 2005 |
Travelling to the US with a working Visa, HIV tests - Can false positives occur |
| 14 Nov 2005 |
Doctors baffled as UK HIV man 'cures' himself & When to start medication |
| 07 Nov 2005 |
Genevieve Clark speaks: THT's Director of Communications (Marketing&Advertising/Press Liaison) |
| 31 Oct 2005 |
Disclosing HIV in the workplace & Making +Ve Relationships Work |
| 24 Oct 2005 |
Long term survival issues of living with HIV & The Valley of the Squinting Windows |
| 17 Oct 2005 |
Starting Meds, New Member referrals, STI Clinics |
| 10 Oct 2005 |
Flying in Soho through to the end of 2006 & Lympho Granuloma Venereum (LGV) Alert |
| 03 Oct 2005 |
Flu Jabs, LA trip, Promoting the Group |
| 26 Sep 2005 |
Tony to stand down as the Group's main facilitator by the New Year |
| 19 Sep 2005 |
The week that everyone disappeared! & Jamie Farewell |
| 12 Sep 2005 |
Is the long grind of HIV holding you back? Or are you getting on with life and making the most of your opportunities? |
| 05 Sep 2005 |
Changes to PCT's (Primary Care Trusts): THT's Executive Director of Service Development & Delivery: Peta Wilkinson visit |
| 29 Aug 2005 |
No Meeting Held - August Bank Holiday |
| 22 Aug 2005 |
Away Breaks - Monastical Retreats & Swedish Positive Group Summer Camp |
| 15 Aug 2005 |
Common themes |
| 08 Aug 2005 |
A visit from Anthony Clarke - Head of the Gay Mens Counselling Service at THT |
| 01 Aug 2005 |
20 Things THT are campaigning for over the life of the current Parliament on HIV issues |
| 25 Jul 2005 |
Confronting HIV Stigma at Work, Drunken Bareback Sex, Osteopathy & GMG Flyer |
| 18 Jul 2005 |
Diagnosis anniversaries: a time for reflection on the history of HIV |
| 11 Jul 2005 |
Medical Retirement on Grounds of ill health & Structured Treatment Breaks |
| 04 Jul 2005 |
HIV naive partners & Oral Sex, Self Esteem & Romance and Which animal do you think you are? |
| 27 Jun 2005 |
Loss of libido; Loneliness |
| 20 Jun 2005 |
Missing Words |
| 13 Jun 2005 |
Bug-Chasers, Gift-Givers and The Law |
| 06 Jun 2005 |
Drug side effects |
| 23 May 2005 |
Disclosure of Status to Family and close Friends – A Second Coming Out |
| 16 May 2005 |
Assertiveness and criminalisation of HIV infection |
| 09 May 2005 |
Light Toning Exercises with a YMCA fitness instructor & Domestic Violence in Gay Relationships |
| 02 May 2005 |
No Meeting Held - May Day Bank Holiday |
| 25 Apr 2005 |
Dodgy HIV awareness campaigns? |
| 18 Apr 2005 |
Soho Suits |
| 11 Apr 2005 |
Soho's First Monday Group Meeting - The Groups Vision for the next 6 months |
| 04 Apr 2005 |
Oh the Shame of it! Asserting ourselves as Positive Gay Men |
| 28 Mar 2005 |
No Meeting Held - Easter Monday break |
| 21 Mar 2005 |
What is Reckless Behaviour? |
| 14 Mar 2005 |
Changing Treatment, Relax with 'Kegels' & Improving Self-Esteem (YMCA Postive Health & Lighthouse West CLAIT Course) |
| 07 Mar 2005 |
Hospices - Palliative and Respite care for the Terminally ill |
| 28 Feb 2005 |
Love and Sluts and State of National Health |
| 21 Feb 2005 |
Pneumonia/Flu Vaccines and TB/HIV ImmigrationTesting |
| 14 Feb 2005 |
Remembrance of a warm and humorous individual |
| 07 Feb 2005 |
Red Shoes Sex Addicts |
| 31 Jan 2005 |
All Change Please! (The group moves from Earl's Court to Soho April 11th onwards.) |
| 24 Jan 2005 |
Drug Holidays and Mersea Island GMG Spring Break |
| 17 Jan 2005 |
Nightmares & Spliffs - Safer Sex & Disclosure |
| 10 Jan 2005 |
PEP and Death of an Old Year:Beginning of a New Year |
| 03 Jan 2005 |
No Meeting Held - New Year's Day Bank Holiday |
| 27 Dec 2004 |
No Meeting Held - Christmas Bank Holiday |
| 20 Dec 2004 |
No Meeting Held - Post GMG Bromptons Christmas Party Recovery |
| 13 Dec 2004 |
Loneliness, More Addiction and the Red Shoes |
| 06 Dec 2004 |
Leaving Him, Leaving You - Addiction |
| 29 Nov 2004 |
Discord and The Dietician |
| 22 Nov 2004 |
Dick Suckers |
| 15 Nov 2004 |
The Dolphin Effect - A Textbook Disclosure |
| 08 Nov 2004 |
Sero-discordant Relationship campaigning : +ve partners/-ve partners |
| 01 Nov 2004 |
Nasty, Brutish and Short - Survivor Guilt |
| 25 Oct 2004 |
Sigma Research Speaker, Invition to -Ve Partners for Sero-discordant relationship Nov8th Meeting, Xmas Party Sun19thDec |
| 18 Oct 2004 |
Interpersonal Relationships - Family reaction to Disclosure |
| 11 Oct 2004 |
Disclosure and Rejection - Depression |
| 04 Oct 2004 |
Drug Holidays |
| 27 Sep 2004 |
The Welfare State Benefits System - there to help, or just window dressing for the middle classes? |
| 20 Sep 2004 |
Disclosure -Menage a Trois |
| 13 Sep 2004 |
Swedish Model Wanted - No Timewasters |
| 06 Sep 2004 |
Reaching Out to Friends and Family for Support, Combating Isolation and forming lasting Friendships |
| 30 Aug 2004 |
No Meeting Held - August Bank Holiday |
| 23 Aug 2004 |
THT to become a charity for general sexual health? Peta Wilkinson visits |
| 16 Aug 2004 |
Sex Drive and Exercise |
| 09 Aug 2004 |
Worried about medication? Disclosure of HIV status at work? Greenwich Park Picnic and Exec Ops Director speaker from THT |
| 02 Aug 2004 |
Concerned and Affected by HIV and THT |
| 26 Jul 2004 |
Sign of the Times - Fellini and Hollywood |
| 19 Jul 2004 |
Victims of Success |
| 05 Jul 2004 |
In Denial on ACCEPTANCE - The Second Coming |
| 28 Jun 2004 |
HIV Drugs - A PATCH in five Years? |
| 21 Jun 2004 |
Celebrating Future Perfect - Volunteers Wanted |
| 14 Jun 2004 |
BAREBACKING - Extremely controversial and complicated |
| 07 Jun 2004 |
Straight-Acting and Straight-Talking. Any Lesbian sightings? |
| 24 May 2004 |
Criminalised and Lobbyless - Biological GBH |
| 17 May 2004 |
Anger and Resentment in Threesomes |
| 10 May 2004 |
Dominatrix in Surgery. Angry. |
| 19 Apr 2004 |
A Place Called Home/Hospice - Home self-test kits. |
| 12 Apr 2004 |
No Meeting Held - Easter Bank Holiday Monday |
| 05 Apr 2004 |
Dorothy's Rainbow Disclosure |
| 29 Mar 2004 |
DISCRIMINATION at Work - Expert Advice. Sweden Ahoy |
| 22 Mar 2004 |
Strung Out, Angry and Scared? - Sign this Waiver, bitch. |
| 15 Mar 2004 |
Time to take your Pills - Guest Speakers |
| 08 Mar 2004 |
Biological GBH and Responsibility |
| 01 Mar 2004 |
Psychoanalysis and Brass Monkey's balls ... time for a switch of venue for the Monday Group? |
| 23 Feb 2004 |
Say hello to new facilitator; Jamie. Website go-live and Easter Trip to Brighton |
| 09 Feb 2004 |
Managing stress |
| 26 Jan 2004 |
Do we need a GP; do we need a new venue? Next week we say farewell to our facilitator, Billie |
| 12 Jan 2004 |
The Dating Game and Travelling abroad with Meds |
| 29 Dec 2003 |
No meeting held - Christmas break |
| 22 Dec 2003 |
No meeting held - Christmas break |
