Men’s Health Week #4: Sexual Health Stress

This men’s health week, remember your sexual health. There are very few amongst us who can say they don’t worry or get stressed, quite often worry and stress can be worse than facing up to and dealing with a situation. Unfortunately, sexual health is one of the areas where men worry but often do very […]

Men’s Health Week #3: South Asian Men

Let’s beat stress together! As Men’s Health week is here I am reminded how much my mental and physical health were affected by my anxiety around accepting my sexuality and how difficult I found this from a cultural perspective. My biggest fear was being rejected by family and close friends. At 19 (way before the […]

Men’s Health Week #2: PrEP, Let’s talk about it.

  As a Sexual Health Outreach worker at Birmingham LGBT I like to keep up-to-date with any information that can help me with my work, part of my role involves sexual health advice, whilst on an internet outreach session, some people asked me how best they can protect themselves against Sexually transmitted infections, if they […]

Sun, Sea and Safe sex

There are a number of factors to consider when it comes to practising safer sex and being on holiday. People generally go on holiday to have a good time, relax, let their hair-down and try new experiences.  We might lose some of the inhibition’s we would normally have at home this factored in with perhaps […]

New Independent Rape and Sexual Violence Advocate for LGBT people

Bev Higgins writes about her new role working with the LGBT Community I became an ISVA to help survivors to have their say, and get the help and support to overcome the impact of sexual abuse, and not face prejudice or mistreatment. As a member of the LGBT community myself and as a professional, I […]

Peer Mentoring

Here at Birmingham LGBT we are very excited at the response we have had to launching the New LGBT & MSM Volunteer Sexual Health Peer Mentor role. From my own experience of attending and then being trained up as a facilitator of the Positive Self-Management Program (PSMP) and Expert Patients Program (EPP); I have firsthand […]