Well, I had been opened with a lot of friends from right from the beginning. And I had been open with members of my family. It was difficult at first, and it took five years for me to tell my father because of the stigma around HIV. He was older. But I hadn't been an activist in that sense that I am now. And I had been very careful about who I told. And I was very worried about, especially on a small island like Gozo, very Catholic, very conservative... Yes, it was difficult. So at a certain point, I thought about it a lot. And I talked to my now partner, of 15 years, about it. And he said, "You know, I really think you should, we're ready, we can do this!" He was behind me. I knew he was behind me for many years before I actually did finally become totally public about it. Because it would affect him as it always affects our partners and our loved ones, because there's a reflection on them, isn't there? And he was involved with a lot of local different local networks, to me, more traditional things like local choirs and things like that. So I wanted him to not have a hard time. But then it was actually again, through a real low point, through real adversity, because at the start of the COVID pandemic, which was very difficult for all of us in lots of ways, and imagine being on a small island in lockdown is fantastic, in lots of ways. Because the island was ours again, we didn't have to share it with anybody. And a lovely community was all together and helping each other, and it was amazing in so many ways for us. But the downside of that was an even greater sense of isolation when things go wrong. And what went wrong for me was the supply of antiretrovirals for Malta and Gozo became very short, which meant that I turned up to get my meds one day at the hospital pharmacy during COVID and was told, "we don't have any drugs to give you, because there aren't any." Yeah, it was a bit of a shocker. And as anybody knows, living with HIV, your continuity of supply, adherence to your meds, is something that's drummed into you from day one, you know, you must take them you must take them at the same time. And then to be told, "Well, we don't have any. We can't give you any..." Was was quite devastating to say the least. And I came home and spoke to my partner I said, "What on earth am I going to do?" You know, after screaming and shouting and getting extremely upset, then you sit down and you rush and think what can I do? So I was told I had to phone Malta and speak to the pharmacy at the main big hospital and see if they could help and they said, we have of the drug I was, one of the drugs I was on, "we have 10 tablets, for 10 patients, for 10 days basically." So I started Googling "How can I get my meds online?" You know, get them sent and then you think that's so expensive and, "are they going to arrive," because there was so many problems with the Post at that time, if you remember as well, with with mail getting through and they would obviously be coming from another country. And then I I just Googled, okay, HIV, NGOs or HIV support in Malta and *ping*, up popped up an amazing organization called HIV Malta. I contacted them, and spoke to an amazing activist volunteer who was also Gozotin, but living in Malta. And really, from then he helped, we were basically doing, if you can believe this, this kind of crowdsourcing thing for drugs. Two NGOs, checkpoint, and HIV Malta, and that was all they could do. And you know, I mean, we're open about this, and it's not legal, but what else you're going to do? So, it's like, "Who's got meds? Who can give somebody a few tablets, who is willing to?" You know, and there were literally people pulling up outside, you know, on street corners, handing over paper bags of meds, just to keep people going. And then, you know, we did get over that shortage eventually. But it was a horrific time. And there were a lot of people who really suffered. Because of the stigma, people were too frightened to speak to anybody, and try and get help. So, lots of people in that period just didn't take their meds because there weren't any. And they were also dropping through the net because of COVID as well, that didn't help. So, then in the nature of these things, once this very small amount of activists had got their hands and got their claws into me, they weren't going to let me go easily were they? So from then I found it a lot more, found out how much the need was here to be involved and be able to offer support. And just being open, James, because I learned from them, and I've learned in my journey now, that being silent, especially for those of us who actually have a choice not to be, is perpetuating the stigma and perpetuating a lot of the issues that we face a lot of, you know. We just face them so much here in Gozo and Malta because of the nature of the society. And so I decided, yes, I was going to get involved, and I was going to be open and I did interviews and I did events. And then they asked me if I would join the board of Checkpoint, which I said "yes, of course." And from there just got more and more involved and now involved in the testing program. So I'm doing testing with other volunteers, recruited a team of volunteers for Gozo, which was great. Just doing awareness raising work, and I'm speaking at Human Rights Conference this Autumn, as part of Euro Pride, to a big audience, Pan European audience, about my story and about the work of Checkpoint.