This presentation will examine how the policies adopted in the United Kingdom during the crisis years of AIDS, which applied to England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, did not consider the concerns of queer people. Specifically, through close readings of legislation passed by parliament, publications from the National Health Service, and oral histories from the Queer Britain museum’s Queer Pandemic collection, it will explore how the UK government ignored the importance of nightlife and sex to queer community and relationship building, queer people’s chosen families, and queer people’s need for easy access to non-discriminatory healthcare, because of the queerphobic Conservative Party’s primacy in politics. It will also detail how these policies, which were presented as reasonable responses to the AIDS crisis, helped to normalize governmental queerphobia and its codification in official policy, directly leading to the UK government’s adoption of similarly queerphobic policies and rhetoric during the COVID-19 pandemic.