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My husband gets abuse because I am living with HIV
The Sunday Mirror
|February 16, 2025
Rugby star Gareth on his fight to tackle virus stigma
HE is an inspiration for being the first openly gay professional rugby player, yet Gareth Thomas and his family still face hate because he is living with HIV.
The former Wales rugby union captain revealed to the Sunday Mirror in 2019 that he had been diagnosed with the virus.
Nearly six years on, Gareth, 50, says there is still a stigma around HIV, revealing he and his husband of nine years, Stephen WilliamsThomas, have been shunned.
Gareth says: "In a way, sadly, [my family] are sometimes guilty by association with me. You know, my husband sometimes has difficulties at work or difficulties in society because he's married to me.
SHUNNED "My husband is HIV negative, but because I'm HIV positive people assume that he's bound to be HIV positive because they don't understand treatment.
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