Positive start to party season
Positive Life NSW will hold both a Christmas and a New Year’s barbecue to ensure all members of the HIV positive community are included in festivities.
The first of two barbecues will be held on Saturday December 27, at the Newtown community garden, for positive people to celebrate Christmas with friends and supporters. This will be followed by a second New Year’s barbecue on January 4 in Centennial Park.
It’s for people with HIV who might be on their own at Christmas, said Positive Life spokesman Rob Lake.
This is the first time we’ve done this, and once again, it’s about acknowledging and thinking a bit more clearly about the fact that we go on about social isolation, and then at what can be the most isolating time of the year everything closes down. So we’re trying to make sure there is something happening.
It probably won’t be a huge thing. It’s not a mega event, it’s just somewhere to come and catch up. Isolation can of course be an issue around this time, particularly for older people with HIV who are living on their own who might be estranged from their family.
info: To find out barbecue times go to http://positivelife.org.au
