GCN & HIV Ireland are proud to present our annual fundraising event to mark World AIDS Day, an evening of conversation between two legends of the LGBT+ community, Panti Bliss and Gareth Thomas.

This year’s World AIDS Day theme is ‘Communities make the difference’ and we wanted to highlight this with an event that puts the community of people living with HIV at the centre.

Panti will host the trailblazing Gareth Thomas in an hour-long conversation exploring the power of visibility and representation to breakdown stigma around living with HIV and their shared leadership and advocacy for the LGBT+ community in their careers and lives so far keeping people at the centre and leaving no one behind.

The commemoration of World AIDS Day, which takes place annually on 1 December 2019, is an important opportunity to recognize the essential role that communities have played and continue to play in the HIV response at the international, national and local levels.

Gareth Thomas is a Welsh rugby legend who disclosed his status as a person living with HIV in the past year and has shown courage and strength in disclosing his status and is a powerful advocate for PLWHIV.

Panti Bliss is the Queen of Ireland and a national treasure. Her male alter-ego Rory O’Neill is a longtime LGBT+ rights activist in Ireland.

This event is a fundraiser for GCN & HIV Ireland and is proudly supported by GSK, Dublin City Council, HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme, Trinity College Students Union and Guinness.