JONATHAN BLAKE At that point, HIV and AIDS were only attacking homosexuals and they were deemed expendable. I mean, who cared about us? That was the attitude: who cares? The only reason that changed was because of the health minister Norman Fowler, who is the one person, among all the Tories, that I do have any time for. He told Margaret Thatcher that it was in the heterosexual community and she freaked. What he didn’t tell her was that this was the intravenous heterosexual drug-using community of Edinburgh. Because if she’d have known that, she’d have said, ‘Let ’em die.’ But because HIV and
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