Gay London Life | Oct '25 Edition - Magazine - Page 2
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Naked Ambition
A group dedicated to banishing
HIV stigma through the arts — HIV
Get Jabbed
The Naked Truth — is hosting a
More than 2,500 gay
World AIDS Day Gala on Tuesday
men have received
2nd December at Bloomsbury
the first dose of the
Central Baptist Church (WC2H
gonorrhea vaccine
8EP). Drag Race UK star Asttina
at 56 Dean Street,
Mandela will be hosting and there’ll
helping to break
be performances from Italian
the transmission of
ballet dancer Mara Galeazzi, R&B
gonorrhea cases
artist Hamzaa, and West End star
in the capital. The
Cameron Bernard Jones, among
Bexsero vaccine was
others. Money raised from ticket
originally designed
sales and the silent auction will go
to protect children
to the HIV charity Positive East,
from meningococcal
which is celebrating its twentieth
B meningitis, but two
anniversary this year. You can buy
doses spaced at least a month apart reduce the chance of catching gonorrhea
tickets from hivthenakedtruth.com.
by 40% — a welcome development given that there were more than 70,000
gonorrhea diagnoses in England in 2024. For more information on the vaccine
and DoxyPEP (medication taken within 72 hours of sex to reduce the risk of
Co-Founders
Steve Gregory
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Chris Colman
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Editorial Contributors
Joe Holyoake, Ifan Llewelyn,
Jason Reid, Taofique Folarin,
Nathaniel Hall, Helen Scott
& Topher Taylor
team@gaylondonlife.co.uk
Design & Photography
Janne Öijer, Joel Ryder,
Nicolas Chinardet
& Richard Holland
team@gaylondonlife.co.uk
catching chlamydia and syphilis by 80%), visit the Soho clinic’s website, dean.st.
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Music for
Change
Friday 10th
October is
World Mental
Health Day,
Just a Second
and to mark
Those who’ve got various bits of metal in
the occasion,
their body may already be familiar with
a special
Pierce Me London’s studio in Covent
concert will
Garden, but the team have recently
be held at St
opened up a second location just up
Giles Church
the road in Holborn. Here, you can get
(EC2Y 8DA)
a wide array of piercings done to the
to bring the LGBTQ+ people together and raise awareness of suicide and
same high standard as you would in the
drug-related deaths within the community. The event is a collaboration
first shop, but you’ll also find verified
between the groups Big Gay Out, Songs in the City, and You Are Loved, and
jewellery, tooth gems, and limited-
will feature live performances from the London Gay Men’s Chorus, London
edition pieces by independent makers
Gay Symphony Orchestra, and Homoparody. Tickets are available from
for sale. You can also get fine welded
tickettailor.com.
jewellery fitted every Monday. Book a
slot at piercemelondon.co.uk today.
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