A helping hand

Live Through This, founded by Stewart O’Callaghan, expressly supports LGBTQ+ people with cancer

Words Kanune Morrissey

“It was late 2016, over the“ Christmas period when I was diagnosed,” remembers Stewart O’Callaghan, founder and director of cancer support and advocacy charity Live Through This (LTT), of when they were told they have chronic myeloid leukaemia. “I was living in Germany at the time. I was a tattoo artist. It was a very different life.” O’Callaghan was just 29 at the time. “I have an incurable type of cancer; quite a rare cancer to get this young,” they explain of the disease, which is more common in adults aged 60-65. O’Callaghan came back to England for treatment, “naively hoping that I would get the support I was looking for”. They didn’t immediately find it. “Queer culture is my culture — I wanted to be able to be a queer person…

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Attitude (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2022

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