Posts in 'Health' Category
Mental Health & Wellbeing
All of us from time to time will have days when we just can’t find a smile to put on our face. Having a blue day, feeling under the weather, (particularly if that weather is stormy and grey) a bit depressing. Thankfully the majority of the time we find that by the end of the [...]
Brighton Pride Podcasts
On Brighton Pride Day we chatted to some of the groups at Preston Park who had a stall. Find out more about who they are in this podcast and what information they were handing out: This podcast includes: Brighton & Hove Carers Centre – Reaching Out (LGBT Carers Group) http://www.thecarerscentre.org/ Brighton LGBT Green Party http://www.lgbtgreens.org.uk/brighton/ [...]
BRIGHTON & HOVE LGBT SWITCHBOARD LAUNCHES EMERGENCY FUNDRAISING APPEAL
If 1000 people donated just £3 a month, they could help save Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard. Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard provides a telephone help-line service and a counselling service to more than 1000 people per year. It costs the charity £250 per day to operate and with funding becoming harder to secure. Switchboard [...]
30 Year Ban on Gay Men Giving Blood to be Lifted.
After thirty years, the lifelong ban on gay and bisexual men giving blood is set to be lifted late this year…with certain conditions attached. The main one being that a gay/bisexual man will only be allowed to donate blood as long as he has abstained from any sexual intercourse with another man for twelve months. [...]
Sussex Beacon Fundraising
Well, Pride gets you thinking about various things … giving back to the community … and looking good on the day! Well, I’ve probably left it a little late for the second part of that, given it’s a week (ish) away now, but the impetus to look good … or be healthier, is still there. [...]
Everything You Wanted To Know About S&M Gay Sex But Were Too Afraid To Ask
Red and Yellow and Black and Blue…. For those who know there hanky code, the list of coloured hankies may well prick up their ears (was the last word a typing error?) For the experienced, and novices alike when it comes to all things S&M, THT and CHAPS have re-launched the excellent Hardcell Hardcell (http://www.hardcell.org) is an extremely well informed [...]
Fundraising @ THT
Fundraising at THT As part of their ongoing strategy to keep the message of safer sex and HIV in the public’s mind, the team at Terrence Higgins Trust have embarked on a range of fun fundraising activities. On the 15th May THT joined the event “Brighton’s Hero’s Run”, organised by the charity “Passing It On”, [...]
LGBTQ Hate Crime Exists in Brighton & Hove: Let Us Not Be Complacent & Invisible
If estimated statistics are correct, the 20,000 LGBT residents of Brighton & Hove that day were predominantly invisible. Apathy was prevailing and our city bubble mentality preventing many from feeling the need to make any noise. Let ‘us’ not be our biggest enemy. 72 crimes and incidents of LGBT hate crime within our ‘Brighton bubble’ in one year is reason enough to for us to not become invisible through complacency, a shrug of our shoulders and a mis-guided belief that ‘it doesn’t effect me’.
New LGBT Project for Brighton
A new and exciting project has started in Brighton & Hove. Nick Douglas is the LGBT Health Involvement Project (HIP) Coordinator and is responsible for a new initiative working with LGBT organisations in Brighton, (LGBT switchboard, THT South, Mind Out, Allsorts Youth Project, Brighton Both Ways and the Claire Project) to get a better understanding [...]
Update on Terrence Higgins Trust HIV Brighton Services.
June 2011 has marked the 30th Anniversary of the AIDS epidemic. So much has changed from those early days when volunteers like Father Marcus opened up his kitchen for those affected by HIV. There is still a need for emotional support for those newly diagnosed and to others living with HIV for a number of years, here I update, discuss and overview all the groups and services at THT Brighton and Eastbourne.
