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GAY BRITISH-MEXICAN MAN CONVICTED IN QATAR AFTER GRINDR STING IN ‘GROSSLY UNFAIR TRIAL’ Manuel Guerrero Aviña's suspended six-month prison-term follows him being denied HIV meds and pressured to name his sexual partners to authorities Manuel Guerrero Aviña, a gay man and British-Mexican national, has been sentenced to a suspended six-month prison-term in Qatar after a Grindr sting earlier this year. Guerrero Aviña also received a fine after what the National AIDS Trust has called a “grossly unfair trial”. The sentencing took place Wednesday 5th June 2024 at Al Sadd Criminal Court in the capital, Doha. If Guerrero Aviña decides to appeal, his travel ban will continue. But if he accepts the charges and pays the fine, he will be deported. READ MORE DR MARK PERERA ON COMING OUT, TESTICLE ART, AND BEING THE LGBTQ+ DOCTOR HE NEEDED GROWING UP Exclusive: "This is why I’m passionate about LGBTQ+ care and empowering patients with education" I grew up in Greenwich and went to school in the suburbs of London. As a child in a pre-internet age, I was often occupied with finding ways to not be bored. One example would be jumping into a box for my brothers to then push down the stairs. It was fun, though one time I did end up in hospital and had to have stitches. School was tough. They wanted me to play rugby, and the headteacher openly used homophobic slurs. As a closeted queer person of colour who was lanky with big curly hair and glasses, I was effectively at the intersection of the Venn diagram of reasons to be a target. When the growth spurt hit in my early teens, I shot up to 6 feet and I didn’t like the fact that I visibly stuck out in a line-up. I was also aware that with my longer limbs I could more easily be clocked as LGBTQ+. To blend in, I copied my older brothers and their 1990s curtains hairstyles. This was an epic fail and wasn’t authentic. READ MORE LAST CHANCE! GRAB ONE OF THESE CUSTOM-MADE GOODIES ON US All you have to do is enter – no pun intended. DANNII MINOGUE ON MADONNA ALLOWING ‘INTO THE GROOVE’ AND ‘DON’T WANNA LOSE THIS FEELING’ MASHUP "She'd never allowed her music to go out ever to anyone" BABY REINDEER STAR JESSICA GUNNING COMES OUT PUBLICLY AS ‘A BIG OLD GAY’ "I did a play with Cate Blanchett where I got to kiss her every night on stage - I should have known then!" TWO MEN ENJOY INTIMATE MOMENT IN THIS EXTRACT FROM NEW QUEER SHAKESPEARE BOOK Dr. Will Tosh is the Head of Research at Shakespeare’s Globe and author of Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare THE GLORY TO RETURN AT FREE RIVER STAGE FESTIVAL ON LONDON’S SOUTH BANK THIS SUMMER The legendary East London club night will be making a comeback between 5 and 7 July

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