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	LGBT Self-help Support Group (Launch 8th September 2004 in Truro) Click here     Survey 2000 Feature     Homophobia in Schools Guide Feature   Lesbians & Homelessness (Help required for student). Feature If you have a feature or information you feel Outback should cover, please send to one of the emails at the bottom of the page. (please allow 14 days for details to be added once received - Thank You!). Special Features Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Self-help Support Group Launch September 8th - Truro. Having to cope with mental health problems is bad enough, but if you add problems around your sexuality you get a double whammy Our sexuality is invosoble, no one can tell your sexual prefernce and in today's society, though much improved, being attracted to someone of your own sex is still taboo, it is not something you can easily be open about. Mental health problems can be very isolating, add the fact that you keep a part of yourself secret and it can isolate you even further. The gay 'scene' can be a difficult place for someone with poor mental health to access. Our sexuality is often, if not always, (especially here in cornwall), never mentioned or even taken into account being seen by our doctors, CPN's or other health workers. Its as if that part of our lives did not exist. The aim of the group is to offer a safe place where we can meet and where our sexuality and mental health will not be an issue. We would be able to share our experiences, support each other and see how we can help each other in recovery. We can also look at how we can educate mental health workers as to our specific needs. Perhaps we can explore alternative ways of supporting our mental health, arrange outings and activities especially for thowse of us who find it difficult to get out of the house. Paul Tremant LGB Mental Health Support Group Launch & Information Day Wednesday September 8th 12 noon to 3pm 6, Walsingham Place, Truro. Drop In and join us for a buffet lunch. Pick up some information, talk to members, plan together the way ahead. The group is NEEDED but we can't do it without YOU! Travel expenses will be reimbursed For more information Contact: Marie Dixon (01872) 222141   Special Feature 1: Survey 2000. A survey showed the happiest people in society are married men, the next happeist are single women, then married women and the least happiest are single men. As Germaine Greer commented - 'It would be beneficial for everyone to have a wife, but for no-one to actually be a wife'. 15% of UK women are having Lesbian Sex and 71% would like to try it! - The New Hite Report 2000 Special Feature 2: Homophobia in Schools Guide: Challenging Homophobia in Schools and Colleges. A new guide has been launched to aid teachers regarding homophobia in schools and colleges. It was produced with a £220,000 grant from the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. for more details of how to obtain a copy. Contact - ALLSORTS (Brighton) 01273 721211
	Special Feature 3: Lesbians and Homelessness - Help required for student My name is Dani Boucher and I am a PHD student at Cardiff University currently embarking on research on Lesbian homelessness in the UK. I am writing to ask you for your help. My research is looking at statutory homelessness policy and the ways in which it affects their vulnerability to literal homelessness. I am also interested in exploring the ways in which lesbians can become vulnerable to homelessness (Where the notion of homelessness includes feeling that you don't have a 'home' despite having shelter) by looking at the nature of housing difficulties they experience as well as looking at how individuals experience, negotiate, manage and understand their experience of home and homelessness. The overall aim is to highlight the issues around lesbian homelessness (which have been so marginized, ignored and neglected) to both the academic and policy communities, of which have key members in the department I am currently working in. I believe this is a very valid research to contribute to the lesbian communities of the UK, because it seems that housing constitutes a chronic practical problem for many lesbians, on one level or another. I am at the stage of my research now where i should be conducting interviews etc... but after a year of trying, I simply can not find a means to access such people. I have already asked both Stonewall Housing and The Albert Kennedy Trust to act as gatekeepers, but neither could. I am getting quite desperate now as my research will be worthless without empirical evidence - this is why i am writing to you! Do you have any means of advertising my need for people who are willing to talk to me about their experiences of home, feeling that they don't belong at home or experiences of homelessness. Do you know anyone or any organisation that might be willing or able to help? Is there possibly anyone affiliated to your organisation that might have experienced housing difficulties, isolation associated with their housing or homelessness - on any level - that might be willing to talk to me? I would be grateful for any advice or help you could give me. thank you for your time Dani Boucher. Contact Dani via (email) Outback   Add your own pictures on the new 'Outback Gallery' page.
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