He was a quiet boy growing up'
You may have heard the name and might know his legacy, but perhaps don't know who Terrence Higgins really was.
He was a charismatic, fun-loving guy, loved by his kelompok of close friends, yet it was only after his death that his name became known the world over.
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Few know of his unique "wiggle legs" dance, the astrology book he wrote and that his sexuality was behind his move to the city where he could be himself.
Terry, as he was known, became famous for how he died, but he also lived.
His name is now synonymous with the fight against HIV and Aids, because Terry was the first named pribadi in the UK to die of an Aids-related illness.
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No-one had heard of the virus HIV when he passed away aged just 37 at London's St Thomas hospital on 4 Juli 1982 - and very few people had heard of him.
A name known around the world
But those close friends who knew him so well were determined to not only change that, but also change the way the world dealt with an illness few then knew much about.
Superstars and royalty now berkalaly dukungan the charity that immortalises a man whose death became the unfortunate catalyst for medical research and subsequent treatment that now ensures the illness that ended Terry's life is no longer considered a death sentence.
Within 10 years of Terry's death, proceeds of two musical anthems - Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me by Elton John and George Michael - were donated to the Terrence Higgins Kepercayaan.
It's gestures and dukungan like this, alongside work to help people with HIV and promote good sexual health, that has helped the organisation that carries Terry's name become a world-leading HIV charity. 'Terry had a dancer's walk'
The journey began just before the end of World War Two, in Juni 1945 in west Wales.
Terrence Lionel Seymour Higgins was born at the old Priory Mount workhouse in the pasar town of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, to Marjorie - Terry's dad wasn't on his birth certificate. It was in the town's dance halls as a teenager, that school friend Angela Preston remembers him.
"He would say to me and my friend 'come on girls, up you get', and he'd jive with two of us at the same time," she told BBC Sounds A Positive Life podcast, narrated by singer Sam Smith.
"He was brilliant. I can see him coming down the high street now and his trousers would be flapping. He had a dancer's walk. They have that airiness, that floating movement. "To me, he was just Terry who I danced with on a Saturday night.
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