Garry Brough: Peers, Passion, Perseverance

HIV: The Morning After · Feb 27, 2026 · 1h 5m

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Garry Brough grew up in a Welsh mining village in the 1970s and 80s, where being different meant being singled out. He was teased and tormented daily, long before he knew he was gay. His father, the local football team manager, kept trying to take him to matches. It never took. At eleven, Garry dropped Welsh and took Italian, reasoning that a foreign language was his ticket out. He assumed the rest of the UK was as suffocating as the valleys. Perhaps another country would be better.

London, when he arrived, was transformative. Within two weeks…