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Rocking the Ribbon for World AIDS Day 2021, Erasure and Jimmy Somerville lend their world-famous talent to 27000@25: When We Were Boys, a unique music video with a powerful anti-stigma message (translated into 7 languages including Closed Captions).

The video turns back the clock 25 years to PRIDE 1996 in London where CRUSAID released 27,000 red balloons for everyone with HIV in the UK. Release For Life was accompanied by the original version of 27000 screened from the main stage to 160,000, with Jimmy Somerville, Holly Johnson and Shelia Smith performing the three songs. The video follows a teenage gay man in 1990s London dealing with his HIV+ diagnosis.

Andy Bell says of 27000, "Apart from being very close to my heart, it is also of historical importance, and significance from a worldwide human rights perspective." It's A Sin's Nathaniel Hall, himself diagnosed at only 16, brings a unique perspective on the HIV narrative in 2021.

Never before seen in this special 25th anniversary version.
(1996/2021, 9m 38s, dir: Rob Falconer)

@DeafRainbowUK

STOP PRESS - At time of writing YouTube are restricting access to the video and are asking people to log in to view it, we are trying to contact them now to get that decision overturned, but hopefully by the time you see this everything will be back to normal...