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Ingrid Young @ingridkyoung.bsky.social · 12d

was really pleased to be invited to be a part of this celebration :) Can't quite believe it's 10 years. Huge congrats to the whole team! @drwilln.bsky.social Marc, Rich & the rest! @thelovetankcic.bsky.social

The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 13d

Celebrating 10 years of PrEPster last week - with allies and comrades @ingridkyoung.bsky.social Winnie Sseruma @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social Marc Thompson and many others.

www.thelovetank.info/news/prepste...

PrEPster celebrates 10 years of educating and agitating for PrEP — The Love Tank CIC

In an often emotional and touching event, the first 10 years of the HIV PrEP programme –  PrEPster  – was celebrated as part of  The Love Tank’s  Love Hub activities last Friday 19...

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 16d

✊🏿 Paid opportunities for Black LGBTQIA+ writers and journalists!

The @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social is joining @WeAreQueerAF.com as our Black History Month UK guest editor

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 13d

Celebrating 10 years of PrEPster last week - with allies and comrades @ingridkyoung.bsky.social Winnie Sseruma @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social Marc Thompson and many others.

www.thelovetank.info/news/prepste...

PrEPster celebrates 10 years of educating and agitating for PrEP — The Love Tank CIC

In an often emotional and touching event, the first 10 years of the HIV PrEP programme –  PrEPster  – was celebrated as part of  The Love Tank’s  Love Hub activities last Friday 19...

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METRO Charity @metrocharity.bsky.social · Sep 2

Get free information on the gonorrhoea and MPOX vaccine, and DoxyPEP this #SexualHealthWeek! 💉
Our Pitstop Clinic team have a fantastic selection of free guides and resources, giving you all the up to date information you need, kindly provided by our friends at @thelovetankcic.bsky.social!

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Eddy - edftmxxx🏳️‍⚧️ @edftmxxx.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm doing the World AIDS Day Red Run in November to raise money for Prepster and @thelovetankcic.bsky.social!

Donate to my JustGiving page here:
www.justgiving.com/page/edftmxxx

Any and all donations appreciated🥰

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 27

Love Hub 2025 programme is live!

This year we're celebrating our SEVENTH Hub in collaboration with @fringefilmfest.bsky.social with a bumper 30 events.

Full programme here -
www.thelovetank.info/news/lovehub25

Love Hub turns 7! — The Love Tank CIC

The Love Tank’s  Love Hub – in partnership with Fringe! Film Festival – today announces its most ambitious programme of free activities and events.

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Ingrid Young @ingridkyoung.bsky.social · Aug 26

Work with me, @drwilln.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social team to explore health activism

Medicine without Doctors @medicinewithoutdoctors.org · Aug 26

Postdoctoral Fellow working on LGBTQ+ Health activism, based in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, working with Dr Ingrid Young @ingridkyoung.bsky.social & Dr Will Nutland ‪@thelovetankcic.bsky.social‬ (The Love Tank).

Apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Fellow LGBTQ

The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a 5-year postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medici...

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 26

What are the drug & alcohol needs of queer people in the UK?

The Love Tank's new research - undertaken by @benvyle.bsky.social - highlights key action-for-change.

www.thelovetank.info/news/dareport

New research highlights drug and alcohol needs of UK queer communities — The Love Tank CIC

New research from  The Love Tank  highlights the complex and on-going drug and alcohol needs of key queer communities in the UK. 

www.thelovetank.info

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 25

Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration.

Closing date 02 Oct 2025.

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Postdoctoral Fellow LGBTQ

The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a 5-year postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medici...

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 22

New research demonstrates acceptability of injectable HIV PrEP amongst key UK populations.

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · Aug 11

I absolutely love my new Prepster t-shirt from @thelovetankcic.bsky.social crew!

Me from behind, still bald, still wearing a black Prepster t-shirt. The back reads 10 years of educating and advocating for PrEP

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 11

There's a new way to get HIV PrEP in North East London, without having to visit a clinic.

The new online service provides all the necessary tests and support, with PrEP delivered to your address.

Find out more here - www.prepster.info/free-prep-ne...

@positiveeast.bsky.social

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 8

It's been a while since we featured our www.longtimenosyph.info programme - and now comrades in Tbilisi, Georgia have translated our materials for use there.

Why duplicate when we can collaborate?

Massive solidarity to the work they're doing there.

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 7

Imagining Palestinian Futures - @ingridkyoung.bsky.social our colleague in the collaborative Doing Disability Futures project, writes about how violence in Palestine is inextricably tied to disability justice.

www.disabilityfutures.uk/blog/ddf03

Imagining Palestinian Futures — Doing Disability Futures

Ingrid Young writes on the importance to be reminded of how the violence in Palestine done in the name of settler-colonialism - a long-standing system of oppression – is inextricably tied to disabilit...

www.disabilityfutures.uk

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 6

Attending UK Black Pride this coming weekend in London?

For the 4th year running we'll be co-hosting a pop-up vaccine bus with NHS colleagues from All East and Homerton sexual health services.

Come find us!

@england.nhs.uk @bashhuk.bsky.social

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Vaccines into bodies at UKBP — The Love Tank CIC

The Love Tank  joins forces with east London NHS sexual health clinics to provide sexual health vaccinations at UK Black Pride.

www.thelovetank.info

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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · Aug 5

I'm going to be doing a 10K run for charity later this year on World AIDS day raising money for @thelovetankcic.bsky.social a fabulous UK sexual health community organisation.

Any and all donations to a very worthwhile cause gratefully received!

2025 World AIDS Day RED RUN - PrEPster

Help Michael Marks raise money to support Positive East

www.justgiving.com

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 4

“The vaccination programme takes us one step closer to reducing one of the most common STIs; one that impacts on key groups of people. We must now ensure that vaccines reach those groups, including people who are least likely to visit clinics." @drwilln.bsky.social

www.gov.uk/government/n...

NHS begins rollout of world-first gonorrhoea vaccine programme

NHS and local authorities begin rollout of world-first gonorrhoea vaccination programme across the country.

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 1

A new gonorrhoea vaccination programme launches today across the UK.

Vaccination is being rolled-out across NHS sexual health clinics.

Find out more about the vaccine here -
www.queerhealth.info/projects/menb

@bashhuk.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk @ukhsa.bsky.social

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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · Jul 23

Nothing better than talking syphilis! Thanks @ukhsa.bsky.social @thelovetankcic.bsky.social @typemat12.bsky.social @nicolelieberman.bsky.social @manikkohli.bsky.social & others who came to kick off my NIHR Professorship. Looking forward to working with you & communities to improve UK Sexual Health

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · Jul 25

"This silencing work – which is patently and cruelly transphobic – significantly undermines the value and applicability of the guidance’s proposed HIV education" - Ben Weil, @thelovetankcic.bsky.social

www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2...

RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum

It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community

www.wearequeeraf.com

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Jul 11

New UK HIV PrEP guidelines from @bashhuk.bsky.social @bhiva.bsky.social offer greater access and equity.

Read our news story here -
www.thelovetank.info/news/prep-gu...

New UK HIV PrEP guidelines offer greater access and equity — The Love Tank CIC

New HIV PrEP guidelines, published by the  British Association for Sexual Health and HIV  (BASHH) and the  British HIV Association  (BHIVA), set out a framework for greater access ...

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Jul 7

Important new research on mpox - this research supports the targeted, routine vaccination of gay and bisexual men in the UK.

NIHR HPRU in Evaluation and Behavioural Science @hpruebs.bsky.social · Jul 3

📰In the news!📰
📢Continuing to #vaccinate for #mpox through a routine targeted programme for #gay & #bisexual men delivered by sexual health services will greatly reduce the number of cases & save the #NHS millions, new research has found.
More➡️ bit.ly/402nw4m @bristoluni.bsky.social

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Jul 6

“Because people know us it's at 3am on the dancefloor when we got the best responses: people come & chat about what we’re doing - ask for water, earplugs or condoms because they’ve just got lucky. We always get the most stunning responses.”

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

Inside Block9 at Glastonbury, where protest, politics, and partying align — oh, and Elon Musk got shot into space

In a notably political year for the festival, activists and guerrilla artists Led By Donkeys took over the site’s coolest late-night spot to finally kick the tech bros off Earth

www.cosmopolitan.com

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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · Jun 24

Come & work with me @benvyle.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Research Assistant with funded PhD within multidisciplinary project on Syphilis & STI control in the UK. Working with us to understand stakeholder & community perspectives on novel STI control strategies

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Love Tank's groundbreaking HIV PrEP programme - PrEPster - relaunches for our 10 year anniversary.

A totally new website brings PrEP info to a whole new generation of PrEP users and those who could use PrEP.

www.thelovetank.info/news/prepster

Groundbreaking HIV PrEP programme relaunches for 10 year anniversary — The Love Tank CIC

HIV prevention programme  PrEPster  - formed by activists in 2015 in response to inaction on education and implementation on HIV PrEP - relaunches today to mark its 10th year since being fou...

www.thelovetank.info

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