35 years since Diana's historic visit to Middlesex Hospital, playwright Bren Goslin has revisited those days to create Moment of Grace
As Gosling explains, this secrecy was an inevitable consequence of a social climate where “gay men were very much blamed for HIV”. James Anderton, chief police constable of Greater Manchester, said in 1987 that people with the virus were “swirling in a human cesspool of their own making”.
Gosling’s research process has also included talking to people who remember Diana’s hospital visit. “At that time in the Eighties, the media were vociferously portraying her as a dumb blonde,” he says. “So it’s actually very enlightening to talk to people who actually met her, because she was very far from that.”
In 1987, the lack of effective treatment for HIV meant that the ward mainly offered palliative care to its patients. But where hit TV series It’s A Sin portrayed young Aids patient Colin as dying in a locked room, starved of human contact, Middlesex Ward pioneered a much kinder approach.
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