I think this situation speaks to the media we have created as a society, where the concepts of 'public interest' and 'what interests the public' are interchangeable in a way that is unacceptable.
The media attention on Mr Thomas is generated by the reprehensible behaviour of a tabloid journalist in revealing Mr Thomas's HIV status to his parents, before he had a chance to tell them himself.
Now by any stretch of the imagination, the fact that a major gay sportsman has HIV can hardly still be the prurient shocking titillating news it would have been twenty years ago, so why does a tabloid still feel that this is actually 'news' that the public needs to know.
I believe the coverage is more about public support for Mr Thomas in having to reveal something entirely personal to the entire world, simply to avoid either being blackmailed, or exposed by the media - and that situation speaks volumes about us as a society, that these two situations can still prevent someone living a private life to which he is entitled.
I think the entire sordid business shames us all.