The Newport man who helped start HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust after losing dozens of friends
Martyn Butler helped found the Terrence Higgins Trust in 1982, when the world was a very different place for HIV/AIDS sufferers
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Martyn Butler remembers the day his ex-partner died vividly. For the 66-year-old Newport HIV/AIDS activist, talking about it still sticks in the throat.
Even now, almost 40 years later, his voice is peppered with a grief you can tell has never really left him. It s always the difficult one to talk about, he tells me of his late partner, who was only 22 when he died in November 1982.
Maureen Colquhoun, former Labour MP for Northampton North (Getty/Doreen Spooner)
Former Labour MP Maureen Colquhoun, the first out lesbian to sit in the House of Commons, has passed away at the age of 92.
The vocal LGBT+ and women’s rights campaigner, who served as Member of Parliament for Northampton North from 1974 to 1979, passed away on Tuesday (2 February).
Labour MP Angela Eagle, who followed in Colquhoun’s footsteps as only the second out lesbian MP, was among those to pay tribute, saying: “This is very sad news. Maureen Colquhoun was a feminist pioneer and paved the way for all those of us who came after her – RIP.”
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