There are some images that never leave you. For Antony Smith, the most enduring one is of a young man in the 1990s who was HIV-positive, telling the world he would rather die young than be a "sad old gay man".
That moment proved to be the trigger for Smith’s brainchild – the UK’s first set of intergenerational projects for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. He acknowledges that the initiative has had "a bit of a long gestation". But the driving force behind it has remained unchanged. It is to ensure that "no young LGBT person should ever think again that dying young is preferable to growing old in our country".
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