Social distancing doesn’t have to mean socially distant
By our Ageing Better Network Enabler (community development worker), Maria Hughes. Lockdown, self-isolation, shielding . . . if your job is to facilitate bringing people aged 50 and over together in social groups, to combat social isolation, a global pandemic can severely hamper your efforts. Research has shown that being socially isolated and lonely lead […]
New Pride in Plovdiv
This blog has been written by one of our newer volunteers, Vinay. As an out and proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, it was definitely difficult moving to a country where homophobia is prevalent, and over the last 6 years I faced many ups and downs with the city where I moved to study. Plovdiv, […]
Delving into the Golden Showers
This post was written by our Trans Sexual Health Outreach Worker, Bethanie Browne. Urolagnia: golden shower, erotic-peeing, wet-sex, uro-sexuality *take a breath* piss play, urophilia, wet-times, pee games, urethral-eroticism, urinism and watersports. Whatever you call it, it’s a thing, and it’s happening all over the world, probably as we speak. Now, I can’t confess to […]
Volunteering at Birmingham LGBT (by Alice Mottram)
When asked about their motivations for volunteering with the Birmingham LGBT Centre, most of the volunteers on my training cohort stated that, besides altruistic responsibility, they wanted to meet new people. Having moved back to my hometown in the Midlands and lacking a social life beyond my parents, I too wanted to connect with others […]
Staying Connected Through Volunteering and Befriending
By Siȃn Finn, our Volunteer & Peer Mentor Coordinator Since lockdown, most people have been having to socially isolate and distance themselves because of Covid-19. We are all now in the position of knowing first-hand what it is like not to have physical access to our support networks. What about those that were already socially isolated and […]
Self Care by Dan Singh
Hi. I am a Sexual Health Outreach Worker, mainly working with and for South Asian & Middle Eastern men, who may identify as gay, bisexual, or who are unsure how to self-identify. The men I work with already experience isolation, and the current situation is not helping with this. But I would like to remind […]
Cervical Screening – by Georgia Pattison
People ignore their cervical screening letter invitation for many reasons; a worry of how long the screening may take, a fear of judgement from the nurse doing the screening, but for many it can be the fear of the unknown. We know that Lesbian and Bisexual Women in particular are up to 10 times less […]
Isolation Information for the LGBT Nation
This post was brought to you by Bethanie Browne, our Trans Sexual Health Outreach Worker. Right now, the world is in isolation, and life is becoming Groundhog Day – or Russian Doll, for those who are not well-versed in their 80s films, but have now watched everything Netflix has to offer. Most people are struggling […]
Trans Day of Visibility (TDoV)
For Trans Day of Visibility I had planned a get together at the LGBT Centre, to celebrate our lives and stand together with one another in community and friendship. The irony doesn’t escape me that a day to celebrate our lives, to ‘be visible,’ comes at a time when it can be difficult to think […]
The Importance of Social Distancing
by Jake McGee The UK is currently on the edge of a Public Health crisis unlike anything we have ever known before. No one expected the speed that our lives would change so dramatically even just a month ago. Many people myself included where laughing and joking about the potential threat posed by the Coronavirus, […]