Major breach of confidentiality by George House Trust, Manchester

Well, and we thought it was just Body Positive North West that was run by incompetents!

The following e-mail was sent out to members of GHT's ‘gay group’ –

From: Dunkan Maclean
Date: 6 July 2006 11:46:25 BDT
To: Ooo Errr - this space had everyone's e-mail address disclosed!!!!
Subject: Gay Men's BBQ 10th July

Dear all,

Just a reminder that this years Gay Men's BBQ will be held at the offices of George House Trust Monday 10th July. As with previous events food and refreshments will be provided.

The event itself gives positive Gay men the chance to socialise with peers and staff members, it's open to any Gay Man already registered with George House Trust.

So if you're a regular attender, or someone who would just like the opportunity to come and meet people from the group, then you are more than welcome to come along on Monday.

If you have any questions you can contact me on the number given below or by email to this address

Hope to see you Monday

Kind regards,

Dunkan K MacLean
Services Adviser
George House Trust
77 Ardwick Green North
Manchester
M12 6FX

dunkan@ght.org.uk
Tel 0161 274 4499
Fax 0161 274 3355
www.ght.org.uk

Supporting people living with and affected by HIV across the North West of England

Here’s the bad news GHT – you failed to put e-mail recipients in the “BCC:” box, but rather pasted them all into the “To:” box. Congratulations – you’ve just outed a group of people presumably living with and/or affected by HIV.

Maybe GHT is “Supporting people living with and affected by HIV across the North West of England”, what a pity it doesn’t give a shit about confidentiality! Time, we think, for Dunkan MacLean to be fired/removed from office…. There again, probably just a minor reprimand for the fuckwit - it's only a group of homos after all: bless poppet.

On a separate note: stop engaging in apartheid and separating gay men out from other groups - just because we're puffs with HIV doesn't mean our 'peers' are all gay men too! Some of us actually class ourselves as human beings living with HIV who don't want our peer group defined according to our sexuality. In the case of GHT, and our friends at BPNW too, bigotry seems to begin at home.