I'm going to expand on this a little. Note, I don't really want to tell you how to vote, but I do think people should carefully consider the impact of their choices, and issues like PrEP and HIV treatment are very important.

https://twitter.com/BLUFclub/status/1199692590360256514

If you followed the campaigning for access to #PrEP in the UK, you'll remember there were many vocal people against it (even amongst the gay community).

Their argument, essentially, why should the NHS pay for gay men to have unprotected sex.

People have been talking a lot about Pride, especially the Manchester one, and the big stars, social exclusion etc.

For what it's worth, I think it all started to go wrong in 1992. /1 Prior to that, the Pride marches I went on in London were pretty loose affairs - you turned up at the Embankment, found a place with your mates, marched to Westminster and ended up in Kennington, where Tom Robinson would play a set. Approk 45k in all. /2

We started 2018 with our first event #BLUFclub stand at Leather Pride in Belgium, which was great fun.

We also launched our first iPhone app, added a US gear store, and hosted almost 200 events in 30 cities - thanks to our volunteers around the world for that We turned 21, and over 400 people joined the club this year.

And, of course, we had our legal problems in Berlin. I'm tremendously grateful to all who helped with that, both financially and giving me moral support

OK, so where does #BLUFclub stand on trans issues, and things like self-ID? Well, broadly speaking, since it's not a democracy, it stands more or less where I do, since I set policy. So, let's look more at that, shall we? Firstly, the vast majority of applications to BLUF have always been done online, without an applicant having to be seen in person. Nor have we ever required proof of identification, still less of gender.

Time to give feedback on the Gender Recognition Act.
gov.uk/government/con… This is my personal response to Q3, on whether a medical diagnosis should be a requirement.