Cass Mann Memorial

Welcome

cassmannmemorial — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:21:22 +0000

NEWS OF THE DEATH in April 2009 from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma of Cass Mann, HIV/AIDS activist and co-founder of Positively Healthy UK, is slowly percolating through his large network of friends, patients and fellow activists around the world.

Diagnosed with HIV in 1985, in 1986 Cass co-founded with Dietmar Bolle what was to become Britain’s only gay men’s holistic HIV/AIDS charity, Positively Healthy.

Cass’s lectures

cassmannmemorial — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:17:30 +0000

A year before his death Cass was commissioned by AidsVideos.org to make a number of short films encapsulating Positively Healthy’s message. The 18 videos went live on YouTube in March 2008 to an overwhelmingly positive response and are now recommended by HIV/AIDS advocacy organisations all over the world.

We have compiled a list of those 18 short lectures, which you will find here.

Cass Mann (1948-2009)

cassmannmemorial — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:05:33 +0000

‘Don’t accept that having HIV or AIDS is a death sentence. Question the medical knowledge and scientific accuracy of all AIDS data you have been presented with. Find out what people living healthily with HIV/AIDS are doing with their lives. Only have in your life that which supports and celebrates your aims and purposes, and detach immediately from everything that doesn’t.’

‘For all those who have condemned us to die, the following message: LIVING IS THE BEST REVENGE!’

Cass Mann, AIDS activist and gay men’s health educator

from ‘Deadly Counsels: The Necrophiliacs of AIDS’,

in Lauritsen, J. & Young, I. [Eds] (1997) The AIDS Cult, Essays on the Gay Health Crisis.

Provincetown, Asklepios/Pagan Press.