Blogs

Read how couple Amy and Claire developed from fostering children to welcoming adults with learning disabilities into their home, as part of Shared Lives. After giving a presentation to the Ageing Better LGBT Housing Group at Birmingham LGBT Centre, CVT Shared Lives (part of the national charity, Camphill Village Trust) are keen to explore the […]

Ageing with Pride caught up with one of the groups at the centre doing a lot of good for the older LGBT community, Rainbow Bridge. Rainbow Bridge meets in the cafe at the centre on Tuesdays from 11am until 1pm and on Thursdays 12:30pm to 2.30pm. Providing a safe space for LGBT people to come […]

Join us on the 1st November for the Ageing with Pride community launch. Ageing with Pride, a 12 month campaign from Birmingham LGBT has launched. Ageing with Pride seeks to bring visibility to older LGBT people and tackle some of the issues that we face as we grow older. An important part of the campaign […]

Birmingham LGBT have just launched their newest campaign ‘Ageing with Pride’ Taking place over the next 12 months ‘Ageing with Pride’ will seek to bring much needed visibility to members of the LGBT community who are aged 50 and over. Using outdoor media such as billboards, bus stop shelters and bus posters, as well as […]

Michael* ponders how his life might have been if he’d felt able to come out as gay earlier in life, and how community group support can make a difference now . . .   OK, in retrospect I’ve probably been gay for more than 50 years, but it was around 1967, when I was at […]