I'll give you the short version: they sponsored & supported the most influential AIDS denialist group of the 2000's, resulting in national policies in South Africa that caused an estimated 330,000 deaths there.

They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did.
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always remember: Terry Pratchett said trans rights

this book was written in 1996 by a 48 year old British man and no cis person in 2025 has a single goddamn excuse to behave differently

I should reread that.

Imagine perfecting your craft over years and years in France and Spain, driving yourself to madness, building up your credibility with the worlds elite and then in the moment of your greatest glory this motherfucker hands you a ribbon