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Ian Walker is the Manager of Integrated Support Serivces at the WA AIDS Council and is an occupational therapist. He discusses his early life in Northern Ireland and move to Perth; his family; being diagnosed with HIV in the 1980s and coming to terms with his sexuality; his experience with the WA medical system and HIV; working with the WA AIDS Council; working in occupational therapy; moving overseas to London and New York, and then to Sydney; his court case against the Perth City Council over establishing a drop-in centre; the stigma of HIV and the LGBTQIA+ community; and changes in the community's attitudes towards both HIV and the LGBTQIA+ community.
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- HIV-positive gay men -- Western Australia -- Interviews.
- Occupational therapists -- Western Australia -- Interviews.
- LGBTQ+ communities.
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