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programme director @HealthFdn | chair EAB @socsecscot | board member @ScotPolAuth | vice-chair @dignityindying | chair @EdMorganTrust | runner @EdinburghAC

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Chris Creegan

13 days

My piece for the @edbookfest Words from the Wards series to mark the fesitival's move to its new permanent home at the @UoE_EFI in the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary building.

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Christopher Creegan: One Building, Two Lives

Trigger warning: The text below includes reference to self-harm and suicide. Autumn 2002. I woke to the sound of hushed conversations behind closed curtains. It took a moment to work out where I was...

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Chris Creegan

4 years

On this day, 30 years ago, Keith Haring, brilliant artist and iconic activist, died of AIDS related illness, aged 31.

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As a middle aged gay man who came out in the 70s and marched through the 80s, the idea of having a wedding anniversary still feels quite an odd thing. But two years ago today this happened and tonight we’ll celebrate. In uncertain times that feels like a lovely thing!

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Chris Creegan

5 years

My late partner, Lawrence, would've been 62 today. He died at 37. He was among thousands of gay men of our generation who, because of the scourge of HIV, didn't live to see the changes many of them played a part in creating. Two years ago, I wrote to him.

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It’s 2022, I’m 61, and I first came out, aged 18, in 1979. This evening, after dark, in Edinburgh’s New Town, a man passing me as I unchained the lock on my bike muttered aggressively, ‘fucking gay boy.’ As I’ve said before and will keep saying, we’re not there yet.

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RIP my mum. We parted company when I was weeks old and didn’t meet again until I traced her aged 36. We were in touch for just shy of four years. Adoption reunions are complicated and it wasn’t to last. But this picture has sat by my bedside for the last 20 years.

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So much talk about @NicolaSturgeon ’s photo on the cover of the Sunday Times magazine, a lot of it, predictably, offensive and nasty. Seriously? It’s a major interview. It’s a big interviewer. It’s a magazine. It’s a great photo. If it’s not for you, just don’t read it.

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4 years

One of the legacies of this crisis must be a greater appreciation of the importance of empathy and emotional intelligence to leadership at the highest level. In @NicolaSturgeon we’re lucky to have a First Minister who not only gets that but demonstrates it.

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EXCLUSIVE: First Minister @NicolaSturgeon on @HeartScotland on feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of leading the country through the coronavirus crisis, and having an occasional "meltdown" at home. #HeartNews

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The second time I’ve seen @NicolaSturgeon at a book festival in as many months. And what strikes me even more than her undoubted love of books is what it says about openness and freedom. In the world we live in that’s something we should cherish.

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Nicola Sturgeon in The Bookshop. She was completely charming.

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4 years

They got the message.

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3 years

I came out at 18 in 1979. I campaigned for gay rights at university and took the fight to trade unions in the 80s. I’ve worn badges, demonstrated, written leaflets and articles, organised conferences, led research. But #ItsASin has made me feel proud in a way I never have before.

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The extraordinary impact of #ItsASin continues. I’ve just spent an hour on the phone with one of the nurses who provided Lawrence and me with such amazing care at Barts hospital back in 1995, the first time we’ve spoken since those days.

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3 years

In a city with an embarrassment of riches on the views front, this one takes some beating...

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Chris Creegan

4 years

So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Scott, captured so many hearts and minds earlier this year.

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2 years

My husband, Allan, is 60 today. A better man you could not meet.

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6 years

Easy to scoff at the sentimentality of @CallTheMidwife1 but I sat with my first partner when he died 23 years ago and tonight’s episode was bloody brilliant - ‘talk to her, Tom, she can still hear you.’

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Morning…

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3 years

19/31 ‘GEORGE SQUARE’ by Jackie Kay #poetry #todayspoem #31poems31poets

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2 years

My husband just got home from sitting by the hospital bedside of the mother of a former social care client as she died. Their relationship hadn't been easy but he knew that had he not been there she might have died alone - and that no one should have to. That's why I married him.

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4 years

When I was growing up, moments like this were unimaginable. When I was their age, marriage still seemed impossible. Just a few years ago, it remained prohibited. For some of us, it was a late call. For others, it came too late. Now kids can see this and know it could be them.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

By me: I’m thrilled to be leading an exciting new initiative about civil society in Scotland which will be getting underway very soon.

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Civil society — what next for Scotland?

When I was 15, I got into a bit of a stushie with my mum and dad. A couple of years earlier I’d become a member of my local church. I sang…

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Chris Creegan

5 years

When I set off for a quiet dinner with my husband to celebrate our second wedding anniversary on Friday, I had no idea that more than 12,000 people would want to wish us well. The power of story fuelled by social media at its best. Humbling stuff.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

As a middle aged gay man who came out in the 70s and marched through the 80s, the idea of having a wedding anniversary still feels quite an odd thing. But two years ago today this happened and tonight we’ll celebrate. In uncertain times that feels like a lovely thing!

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3 years

Just finished #ItsASin Thank you @russelldavies63 and every one involved. You told our story and gave voice to those who didn’t make it.

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Chris Creegan

4 years

There's plenty of poison about, especially on here, BUT: Dominic Cummings is not being 'hounded out' - he's being held accountable. We are not a 'mob' - we are citizens, the public, the electorate. The strength of feeling isn't a social media bubble - check You Gov polling.

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Chris Creegan

4 years

Shouting and swearing at people in the workplace is NEVER acceptable behaviour. EVER. There are NO legitimate mitigating factors. NONE.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

New from me: on the searing resonance and cultural significance of Russell T Davies' It's a Sin - unbearable to watch yet utterly life-affirming.

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‘It’s a Sin’ is dramatic art as redress— it tells our story and gives a voice to those who didn’t…

‘The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.’

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Chris Creegan

5 years

My incomparable sister, Rachael, left us 11 years ago today. She was 44, a mother of five and utterly irrepressible. Laughing with her was just the best thing. Cosmic Dancer was the soundtrack to her funeral - and her life, so I’m playing it tonight.

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Chris Creegan

4 years

Poetry every day in 2020 320/366 ‘DEATH IS SMALLER THAN I THOUGHT’ by Adrian Mitchell #poetry #todayspoem #366poems366poets

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Chris Creegan

4 years

I wrote this two years ago about my late partner’s last weekend. It’s come round again. Right on time.

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Some thoughts on living with dying — and remembering

In July 1995, my partner of 10 years, Lawrence, left me. He’d been leaving for a while. First his body and then, in the last few months…

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Chris Creegan

6 years

The discourtesy and ignorance of this sort of tweet is something politics would be significantly better off without.

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Chris Creegan

6 years

Anyone who talks openly about their experience of mental illness and stigma as @RuthDavidsonMSP has done here, is courageous. If your response is to hurl abuse, you’re harming the cause of mental health at a time when it has never been more important to make change happen.

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6 years

I think it helps to talk about mental health. I know it would have helped me. Also, realising that a diagnosis isn't a full stop; nor is it binary. It can be managed over time. If you need to talk, @SAMHtweets does some brilliant work.

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Chris Creegan

6 years

For David Steele to say on @BBCNewsnight that he didn’t know Jeremy Thorpe was gay is scarcely credible. To dismiss allegations against Cyril Smith as ‘scurrilous hearsay’ and ‘tittle tattle’ is appalling.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

Yesterday I went to my Turkish barber’s just down the street. It was closed for refurbishment so I headed to the next nearest. 1./

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3 years

Latest from me: It's 26 years to the day since Lawrence left us so I wrote to tell him how the current plague is going.

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Plagues don’t end unless we care enough to stop them — but we knew that didn’t we?

I’ve been thinking of writing again for a while. I said I might, didn’t I? I even said I’d let you know how this plague ends. But that…

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Chris Creegan

4 years

If you haven’t seen this yet today, you haven’t lived.

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Chris Creegan

4 years

I've read some extraordinary writing about COVID-19 but this, by Rory Kinnear, is brilliant beyond words.

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Chris Creegan

4 years

When everyone’s gone home...

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Chris Creegan

5 years

I’m staggered by the response I’ve had to re-publishing this piece. That it seems to have resonated with so many people is rewarding beyond measure. What Lawrence, who died long before social media was even a thing, would have made of it, goodness only knows.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

My late partner, Lawrence, would've been 62 today. He died at 37. He was among thousands of gay men of our generation who, because of the scourge of HIV, didn't live to see the changes many of them played a part in creating. Two years ago, I wrote to him.

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3 years

Introducing Craigie…

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7 months

Today I had the enormous privilege of being appointed Chair of the @EdMorganTrust and what better way to mark the moment than by sharing my favourite Edwin Morgan poem. 👇

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4 years

I have just run a mile. Okay, it took me 12 minutes. But it was a whole mile. 🏃‍♂️ 🏆 #osteotomy #recovery

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Pittenweem moon…

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Things about having a dog that everyone told you but only make sense when you have one, part one: unconditional love.

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3 years

Those of us who lived, fought and grieved through the years portrayed in #ItsASin - and survived - scarcely imagined it would be the subject of an award winning, chart topping popular TV show. That it is, 40 years on, feels like justice of a sort. Bravo!

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Chris Creegan

4 years

I understand the criticisms of the new blood donation policy. *But* as a gay man who came of age just before HIV, who was an AIDS activist in the early years, who fought for gay rights in the 80s, who lost my partner and many friends to HIV, this moment *is* worth celebrating.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Well, that’s quite the birthday gift in among the post this morning...

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Chris Creegan

2 years

🧵 Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay 20 years ago, following a sustained period of severe depression and spells in psychiatric institutions, I attempted to take my own life.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

When I grow up I want to be Lady Hale.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

These are the stories we need to tell. The everyday stories of Brexit, the ones we take for granted. They need to be heard. 12. ENDS.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

I have just run 500m on a machine in the gym. I can’t tell you how exciting this is. I’m not sure I’ve run that slowly since I was 10. But hey, Rome wasn’t built in a day. #recovery #osteotomy #runchat

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Chris Creegan

1 year

‘So this old world must still be spinning around, And I still love you.’ ‘a marriage of true spirits on the level.’ 31st May 2017

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Chris Creegan

4 years

Spot on @NicolaSturgeon underlining the need for kindness, including to those who make mistakes, as we find our way, together, through the #COVID19 crisis.

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Chris Creegan

7 years

Just married!

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Chris Creegan

5 years

Today is my last day @SCLDNews after six years. I’m proud of the journey we’ve been on. I’ve learnt a lot, made plenty of mistakes too. But now it’s time to go. I’m leaving behind a great team who are looking forward to working with @charlie_mcmil who I know will be brilliant.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

The dissonance on display at this Downing Street press conference is utterly mind boggling. The narrative of slow, steady and cautious appears to be completely at odds with the lifting of restrictions being announced.

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Chris Creegan

6 months

🧵 My birth mother’s husband has died. We first met in May 1997 on a dreich afternoon in Dundee. Our final encounter, in August 2022, was at her funeral in Broughty Ferry, 22 years after we had last spoken. No words were exchanged, only a brief handshake as I left the church. /1

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Chris Creegan

5 years

The ‘answer’ to homosexuality, Ann Widdecombe, is what millions of us do unremarkably everyday which is to get on with our lives. Many of us fought hard for the right to do that. Science has more pressing and nobler causes to address.

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Chris Creegan

1 year

20 years ago today was a first day of the rest of your life day, my first day living in Scotland. A coming home of sorts, and an escape from emotional noise. I’d no idea what would happen next, still less have a plan. Somehow it worked out and I acquired these two along the way.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Well that was a grand day out. And proof that life may begin at 60 after all. Bagging my first, but I’m sure not my last, Munro, Meall nan Tarmachan, with @RCunningham_MMM to whom thanks also for the 📸 #MountainsMendMinds

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Airhead by @maitlis is perfect bed time reading. Each short chapter is completely absorbing. It’s also beautifully written and manages to be both deadly serious *and* make you laugh out loud - and goodness knows we need the latter right now.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

The journey to #Stonewall50 is one of extraordinary gains and profound losses; 24 years ago this week, Lawrence and I went to Pride together for the last time in London’s Victoria Park. It was Pride’s 25th Anniversary. He had just 2 weeks to live. Celebrate *and* commemorate.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

In an uncertain world friendship is a constant. Raise a glass to that tonight.

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Chris Creegan

2 years

Lawrence Buckley 24.08.57 - 10.07.95 Somewhere, in the space between remembering and forgetting, your presence still lingers. #WorldAIDSDay #whatisrememberedlives

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Latest from me: very grateful to ⁦ @thecourieruk ⁩ for carrying this piece reflecting on my experience, and Scotland’s mental health challenge, as I step down after eight years on the ⁦ @SAMHtweets ⁩ trustee board and six years as chair.

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OPINION: We all have a mental health story - here's mine

Attitudes to mental health have changed massively in Chris Creegan's lifetime. As he steps down from SAMH he considers how far we have to go

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Chris Creegan

5 years

THREAD. It’s taken me 12 hours to RT @gareththomas14 ’s remarkable 1 minute 24 second video about his HIV status. I liked it last night had to sleep on it before retweeting. Not because I don’t agree with every plaudit it’s recieved. I do. And some. 1./

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Chris Creegan

6 years

By me: What’s left undone — Remembering Olivia McLeod

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What’s left undone — Remembering Olivia McLeod

Our journey together scarcely left base camp. But the tent pegs in the ground were already secure. In the midst of an ending, we forged a…

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Chris Creegan

3 years

There’s a lot wrong with social media but this morning I connected with the doctor who signed my late partner’s death certificate 25 years ago. I’m not sure I ever really got to thank her properly for all the care and support she gave us back then. Now I can.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Zoom. Teams. Webinar. Mute button. Chat function. Hand raise function. Q&A function.....I am so over you. All of you.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Absolutely delighted to be joining @markdiffley1 and the team @diffleypartners in an associate capacity and very much looking forward to contributing to the great work they are doing.

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3 years

We’re thrilled to announce that we will working with a new associate @Chris_Creegan . Chris is a writer and consultant with 40 years’ experience in the third and public sectors and has spent more than a decade in social research. Welcome to the team, Chris!

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Chris Creegan

4 years

Evening from the West Shore of Pittenweem.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

It’s #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek Every day this week I have posted a picture of someone I have lost but who lives on in me. This is Lawrence, who died of AIDS, aged 37, in 1995. ‘All the way back home at midnight You were sleeping on my shoulder.’ #whatisrememberedlives

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Chris Creegan

3 years

So today I had a lockdown haircut *and* a lockdown meltdown. Luckily the two were entirely unrelated but the second was a reminder that this is tough and that fragility is allowed.

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Chris Creegan

6 years

Delighted and privileged to have been re-elected as chair of @SAMHtweets tonight for a second three year term. And to welcome @jhferguson as vice chair for 2018-19. Many thanks to outgoing vice chair @ianbeattie1 for all his energy and commitment.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

When Allan and I married in 2017, our friend, David Kinloch, wrote us a poem which included the verse: ‘Will he spy the diver, will he stop to salvage the baker, sculptor, homemaker, who’ll save him the trouble of running too far past his life?’ I did, of course. #cakegate

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Thank you to everyone who has responded to my interview about #ItsASin in the @Sunday_Mail Most extraordinary are the private messages from people I have never met. People who have carried memories of grief and stigma ever since that time. *This* is why storytelling matters.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

It’s #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek Every day this week I am posting a picture of someone I have lost but who lives on in me. This is my friend, Olivia, who died with so much of life undone, aged 41, 2018. ‘There is a garden where our hearts converse.’ #whatisrememberedlives

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Chris Creegan

2 years

Allan has moved onto pottery making…

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Chris Creegan

4 years

Pittenweem, it's wonderful to be back!

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Chris Creegan

4 years

#ProudBoys then and now. It’s been a long journey to here. And we’re not there yet.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

In other news, today’s the day I start learning to walk again after six weeks on crutches. Focus on the things you can control, not on the humongous mess which is out of reach.

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Chris Creegan

6 years

By me: on the Sustainable Growth Commission report.

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Big thinking for a small country

On Thursday 18th September 2014, my husband and I walked to the polling station. It was a fine evening and as we walked we shared stories…

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Chris Creegan

3 years

This is remarkable. I read and write about illness, death, and dying a lot. In that endeavour I’ve rarely read anything as fine and moving as this from ⁦ @anandMenon1 ⁩ for ⁦ @tortoise ⁩ If you can read it without breaking down, you’ve beaten me.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

In 2021, thanks to effective treatment, HIV doesn’t mean AIDS or death in the UK. But in the 1980s it upended our world and took the lives of our friends and lovers. I’m grateful to @jem_2 for talking to me in the @Sunday_Mail about #ItsASin and the stories of those we lost.

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Sunday Mail

3 years

Charity boss praises hit show for raising awareness of HIV stigma.

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Chris Creegan

5 years

A week ago, my husband and I basked in the warmth of wedding anniversary wishes from 13,000 people, mostly strangers. This is a cold reminder that change isn’t universal and progress isn’t inevitable. Not just homophobia, but deep rooted misogyny too.

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Chris Creegan

1 year

I’m 62. I discovered I hailed from Dundee when I traced my birth mother in my 30s. But until tonight I’d never been to a concert at the Caird Hall. Now I’m here to see @deaconbluemusic & support for a great cause. And it feels like another moment in a lifetime of homecomings.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

One dark evening long ago I crossed the road in a way that resulted in a woman setting off her rape alarm. For me it wasn’t nice. For her it was clearly terrifying. At that moment, to that woman, I wasn’t known. I was a stranger. I could have been #anyman . That’s why #allmen .

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2 years

Yes - I know it’s soppy and commercial and all the rest. But in this life, the only one I’ll know, I got to love and then to love again. What great luck is that? #ValentinesDay2022

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Chris Creegan

4 years

Well done @PaulJSweeney - as someone who arrived at the starting line of this crisis newly self-employed at 59, having always worked, I’ve had to think hard about claiming benefit for the first time in my life. So far I haven’t had to but there must never be shame in doing so.

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BBC Politics

4 years

"Opportunities have been very far and few between, it has been quite disorientating... there's no shame really in having to resort to social security" Paul Sweeney, who lost his job as a Labour MP at the last election, has applied for Universal Credit

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Goodness this is generous and measured from @GlasgowPam about something that so obviously should not have happened. But it did and it does happen to disabled people everyday. We have to do so, so much better.

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STV News

3 years

A Scottish Parliamentary candidate who uses a wheelchair has spoken of her ordeal in accessing the Glasgow election count after staff took 45-minutes to help her access the Emirates Arena and sit with fellow candidates.

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This is *not* about whether you were right 20 years ago. Or about whether what’s happening proves your pre-existing position. It really isn’t about *you* at all. It’s about people, women and girls, in mortal danger - *now*. Everything else is performative nonsense. #Afghanistan

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Chris Creegan

6 years

By me: on the human calamity of the deaths of Katie Allan and William Lindsay - and why what happened to them - and their families - is about us too.

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Katie and William were not our children — but their tragic deaths are about us

Just another Monday. Even in this increasingly dysfunctional world, we still have them. We go about our business. I’d been meeting a…

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Chris Creegan

2 years

Latest from me: a year ago this weekend I sat down, heart in mouth, to watch Russell T Davies' #ItsASin A year on, I carry it in my heart.

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‘It’s A Sin’ was so much more than a TV show — a year on, I carry it in my heart

In the dead of night over Christmas 1988, I became aware that hardly any of my fingernails had a lunula. I was 27. Until that very moment…

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Chris Creegan

4 years

I never expected Allan to have to cut my hair but he is, of course, a man can turn his hand to pretty much anything - unlike me!

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Thank you to @babbedout from the @MetroUK who saw my tweets about reconnecting with the pioneering HIV staff at @BartsHospital who cared for Lawrence and supported me back in the 90s, after watching #ItsASin , and ran this story.

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'It's A Sin inspired me to connect with the team who cared for my dying partner'

It’s impossible to measure the impact It’s A Sin has had on its audience.

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Chris Creegan

6 years

By me: there should be no place for name calling individuals in the way we tackle obesity

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Obesity needs drastic action — but name calling individuals won’t do

When I passed the 11 plus in 1972, my mum sent me to tea with Charles. Charles was the other boy in my class who would be going to the…

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Final day of #LGBTHM21 and my Unsung Hero is John Curry. He was outed in 1976, the year he won Gold at the European and World Championships, and the Olympics, and was voted BBC sports personality of the year. He died of an AIDS related heart attack in 1994, aged 44.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

I just wandered through to the kitchen to be told by Allan that the very large cake he’s about to put in the oven is for my 60th birthday. This has made its imminence rather too real. I may need to pour a drink. Just as well it’s Christmas.

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Chris Creegan

3 years

It’s #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek Every day this week I will post a picture of someone I have lost but who lives on in me. This is my sister, Rachael, who died of cancer, aged 43, in 2008. Laughter with her was life itself. #whatisrememberedlives

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Chris Creegan

3 years

I’m not going to say much more about #ItsASin until I’ve watched it to the end. But I moved to London a year later, and in the first episode alone so much resonated. One thing I will say is this. 1/

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Chris Creegan

3 years

It's 23 years to the day since I returned to my home city of Manchester to march against Clause 28. A city whose chief constable, James Anderton, had accused us and others of 'swirling in a human cesspit of our own making.' It really was a sin back then.

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On returning home to march for our rights — and Never Going Underground

It’s half a lifetime ago but I can conjure it up in a moment. On February 20th, 1988, more than twenty thousand of us marched through the…

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Chris Creegan

3 years

Latest from me: The brilliant ⁦ @russelldavies63 ⁩ is bringing AIDS in the 1980s to our screens in his new drama, It’s a Sin, starting this Friday. For those of us who lived, loved and lost through those years, it’s going to be a hell of a ride.

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‘It’s a Sin’ could not be more timely — so why am I dreading it?

Russell T Davies’ forthcoming series on Channel 4, It’s a Sin, could not be timelier. This is NOT the first plague in living memory. We…

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