Reflecting on It's a Sin: A nurse on the Aids crisis of the 80s

Published: March 2, 2021, 4:30 p.m.

New drama It’s a Sin, written by Russell T Davies, follows a group of friends living through the 1980s Aids crisis. Leigh Chislett worked as a HIV nurse at St Mary’s hospital in London during that period. Watching the show, he saw himself not just in the nurses caring for patients but also in the young gay men navigating their lives