'The magic of cinema': the club supporting older people with HIV

The Terrence Higgins Trust initiative aims to combat loneliness and encourage discussion through a shared love of film

Inside the Regent Street cinema in Marylebone, London, a group of men and women are in high spirits singing along to a dancing Doris Day. It is a gloomy Wednesday in February but these filmgoers, aged in their 50s to 80s, are determined to enjoy their weekly trip, on this occasion to see the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me.

As members of the Silver Surfers club, they have one thing in common apart from age and a love of cinema – a diagnosis of HIV.

The magic of cinema is you go in as a stranger and come out as friends. It brings you together with others

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Continue reading... February 21, 2018 at 03:29PM