Elton John’s husband and chair of his Aids foundation on the need to redouble efforts amid rising illiberalism around the globe
Elton John’s husband and chair of his Aids foundation calls for a redoubling of efforts amid rising illiberalism around the globet could be said to be a love that dare not speak its name. Certainly Russia’s president makes little of it when warning of the degrading dangers of western acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights.
This has never been merely a crowd-pleasing sop for the couple but a goal forged out of the pain of losing a swathe of friends. The Russian health minister had Furnish’s number for a reason. He does mean business. It is an unrecognisable situation from today and Ejaf has some major recent successes of which to boast. A project that started in south London where people were asked towhen they were being screened for other conditions has been rolled out across the UK. As a result, 1,600 people with HIV were diagnosed in just the last year, says Anne Aslett, Ejaf’s chief executive.
“Unfortunately, you know, Ukraine, war, politics,” Furnish says of the lack of follow-up. What is known from the World Health Organization is that the country had the highest number of new HIV diagnoses in Europe in 2021. And Russia is only one of the more extreme examples of a trend towards intolerance that Furnish says he fears is turning back much of the good work of recent decades.
“Now listen, I’m all for appropriate sexual education and gender identity and education in schools. I don’t want my kids going to school and being taught ‘this is how gay people have sex, this is how these people have sex’. That’s a conversation for later on in life,” Furnish says. “But the laws are written in a way that what’s right and what’s wrong is not defined at all.
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