Simon Callow, Aids and the choir

  Sad story. The London Oratory School - Catholic, state -  has dropped the Terence Higgins Trust as a beneficiary of its World Aids Day concert,  because the charity's "philosophy, aims and practices  [do not] support Christian values. "  Instead their charity is Surf, which helps survivors of the Rwandan genocide who had been "deliberately infected" with Aids.  Simon Callow,  as patron, is threatening to withdraw his support.  Meanwhile, ironically, it emerges that one of the priests at Brompton Oratory, the church attached to the school, was HIV positive and was actually cared for by the THT in the late 90s.
    Admittedly the THT does go large on "safe sex" messages in garish pink boxes,  but the
sadness lies in this distinction being made, explicitly, between the 'innocent' and the gay victims of the same disease.  Both need support.