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Mark Ashton
The HIV Podcast
English - November 04, 2022 07:32 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBNon-Profit Business Health & Fitness Mental Health hiv nonprofit sexualhealth charity volunteer selfcare heroes history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
At 26 years old, Mark Ashton was diagnosed with HIV and died shortly afterwards. He was a leading figure in the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) group during the 1984 miners' strike and this is the focus of our episode this week. As a political activist and campaigner he had such an impact that in 2018, 31 years after his passing, a garden in Paris was renamed to honour him, and a year earlier, on what would have been his 57th birthday, a blue plaque was hung above the bookshop where Mark and his friends met to organise political rallies.
Sources
Remembering Mark Ashton: A proud advocate of socialism and gay rights (epicchq.com)
Mark Ashton: The Life and Legacy of an LGBT Legend | LGBT Lawyers
UK miners' strike (1984–85) - Wikipedia
Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners (lgsm.org)
Further Information
The Communards - For A Friend (Official Video) - YouTube
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