I was aware of HIV and felt like I knew how to protect myself – to use condoms and test regularly… “I guess I was lucky, my mum was quite forward-thinking and gave me some extra sex education about condoms and things. We were told it was OK to be gay but not to have gay sex.” We were taught, in terms of heterosexual sex, not to use condoms. “Our sexual health education in school was taught through religious education and was very limited.