North Bristol NHS Trust Celebrates Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) History Month February 2012
We are delighted to announce events to celebrate LGBT History Month 2012. The Pink Exhibition features NBT members of staff and their stories as well as well known people come and see it in the Learning and Research Department throughout February.
This is a chance to tell NBT what you think about our performance under the Equality Delivery System at the workshopsand is important as your comments will help to set our objectives on LGBT matters.
Trans Workshop - Tuesday 28th February 1.00 - 2.30 p.m.
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Workshop - Wednesday 29th February 1.15 - 2.45 p.m.
These events are open to everyone but please book a place as they are limited. For more details contact:
Lesley Mansell, Equality and Diversity Manager
Extension: 06471 E mail: Lesley.Mansell(at)nbt.nhs.uk
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Thursday, 19 January 2012
LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week Event 21st February 2012
Bristol City Council and North Somerset Council combine forces to recruit LGBT adopters, as first-ever LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week launches
Bristol City Council and North Somerset Council will be holding a joint LGBT information evening on Tuesday 21 February, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm at the Colston Hall in a bid to encourage potential gay adopters and foster carers to come forward.
The event will include talks from local LGBT adoptive and foster parents about their own experiences and give those interested information on how to start the process.
Events are being organised across the UK as part of the country’s first-ever LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week. It comes as gay adopters and foster carers are being hailed by social workers for their significant strengths in a survey commissioned by New Family Social, the LGBT network coordinating the week.
At a time when adoption figures are at a 10 year low, a new study shows lesbian and gay people often have the right mix of skills and experience to raise children who have been in care, and give them a great new start in life.
72% of social workers surveyed saw the “amount of energy and enthusiasm” LGBT adopters bring to the process as a significant strength. 76% saw “openness to difference, and supporting a child with a sense of difference” as equally important.
For a long time, LGBT people tended to be seen as a “last resort” when placing children. Now adoption and fostering agencies see them as having a key role to play in meeting the urgent need for more new homes for children in care.
The LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week is a recruitment campaign for prospective LGBT adopters and foster carers with 18 events around the UK hosted by local adoption and fostering agencies.
Hugh Thornbery, Strategic Director of Children’s Services at Action for Children, says "Over the years, our LGBT foster carers and adopters have helped to transform many children’s lives. We welcome more applications from LGBT foster carers and adopters; the main thing is that you are able to give children and young people the care and support they need to be happy and fulfilled.”
Andy Leary-May, Director of New Family Social, says: “More and more LGBT people are choosing adoption and fostering as a way to form a family, and we want prospective parents to see just how rewarding it can be, and how much advice and support is on offer from our huge community of families around the UK”.
Leary-May adds: “The fact that so many agencies want to recruit from the LGBT community show just how far things have come in the past 5 or 6 years. Social workers are becoming more aware of our strengths, and we are being treated more fairly, and are being matched with children more quickly”.
For more information about adoption or fostering, contact North Somerset Council on 01275 888 999 or Bristol City Council on 0117 353 4200. Alternatively visit www.n-somerset.gov.uk/fostering or www.bristol.gov.uk/page/adoption.
Bristol City Council and North Somerset Council will be holding a joint LGBT information evening on Tuesday 21 February, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm at the Colston Hall in a bid to encourage potential gay adopters and foster carers to come forward.
The event will include talks from local LGBT adoptive and foster parents about their own experiences and give those interested information on how to start the process.
Events are being organised across the UK as part of the country’s first-ever LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week. It comes as gay adopters and foster carers are being hailed by social workers for their significant strengths in a survey commissioned by New Family Social, the LGBT network coordinating the week.
At a time when adoption figures are at a 10 year low, a new study shows lesbian and gay people often have the right mix of skills and experience to raise children who have been in care, and give them a great new start in life.
72% of social workers surveyed saw the “amount of energy and enthusiasm” LGBT adopters bring to the process as a significant strength. 76% saw “openness to difference, and supporting a child with a sense of difference” as equally important.
For a long time, LGBT people tended to be seen as a “last resort” when placing children. Now adoption and fostering agencies see them as having a key role to play in meeting the urgent need for more new homes for children in care.
The LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week is a recruitment campaign for prospective LGBT adopters and foster carers with 18 events around the UK hosted by local adoption and fostering agencies.
Hugh Thornbery, Strategic Director of Children’s Services at Action for Children, says "Over the years, our LGBT foster carers and adopters have helped to transform many children’s lives. We welcome more applications from LGBT foster carers and adopters; the main thing is that you are able to give children and young people the care and support they need to be happy and fulfilled.”
Andy Leary-May, Director of New Family Social, says: “More and more LGBT people are choosing adoption and fostering as a way to form a family, and we want prospective parents to see just how rewarding it can be, and how much advice and support is on offer from our huge community of families around the UK”.
Leary-May adds: “The fact that so many agencies want to recruit from the LGBT community show just how far things have come in the past 5 or 6 years. Social workers are becoming more aware of our strengths, and we are being treated more fairly, and are being matched with children more quickly”.
For more information about adoption or fostering, contact North Somerset Council on 01275 888 999 or Bristol City Council on 0117 353 4200. Alternatively visit www.n-somerset.gov.uk/fostering or www.bristol.gov.uk/page/adoption.
Monday, 16 January 2012
OutStories website goes live!
The new OutStories website for those interested in LGBT history, particular in the Bristol area has just gone live at www.outstoriesbristol.org.uk
It includes a list of all the events happening for LGBT history month in the Bristol area.
It includes a list of all the events happening for LGBT history month in the Bristol area.
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Research Project - calling for particpants - women who have relationships with women
The following is from Danielle Pearson, postgraduate student studying for a Masters Degree in Research Methods in Psychology at UWE, Bristol who is currently undertaking qualitative research for her Master's dissertation.
I am looking for participants for my qualitative survey looking at infidelity in women who have relationships with other women.
I am looking for women who have relationships with other women (queer, gay, lesbians, bisexuals etc) to complete an online qualitative survey about their views and experiences of infidelity in same-sex female relationships. To complete the survey, please click on the following link http://uwepsych.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bNHOjSjsdx1MJLu
I would be grateful if you could circulate this information to anyone who might be interested in taking part. There is very little research in this area and I am hoping to get a good sample size. If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact me. danielle.pearson(at)live.uwe.ac.uk
I am looking for participants for my qualitative survey looking at infidelity in women who have relationships with other women.
I am looking for women who have relationships with other women (queer, gay, lesbians, bisexuals etc) to complete an online qualitative survey about their views and experiences of infidelity in same-sex female relationships. To complete the survey, please click on the following link http://uwepsych.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bNHOjSjsdx1MJLu
I would be grateful if you could circulate this information to anyone who might be interested in taking part. There is very little research in this area and I am hoping to get a good sample size. If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact me. danielle.pearson(at)live.uwe.ac.uk
Trans-Related events annonced for LGBT History Month, 2012
Venue: 34 Old Market, Bristol (www.hydrabooks.org) Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Thursday, February 2nd - Changing images of trans people in speculative literature
The availability of magic and advanced science have allowed writers of fantasy and science fiction literature to explore issues of gender in their work. Hugo Award winning critic, Cheryl Morgan, explores how the way in which trans characters have been portrayed in speculative literature has changed as real trans people have become better known to the general public.
Cheryl Morgan is, to her knowledge, the only out trans person ever to have won science fiction’s highest honour, the Hugo Award. Born in Somerset, she has lived in Australia and California and now resides near Bath where she runs a small ebook publishing company and bookstore. She blogs regularly at www.cheryl-morgan.com.
Thursday, February 9th - Transgender before transgender: Cross-dressers and the establishment in Victorian England
The emergence of public cross-dressing in the 19th century industrial city caused great anxiety to the Victorian legal establishment and England's new police forces alike. In this talk, Guardian and New Statesman writer Juliet Jacques (longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011) explores how those who cross-dressed were criminalised, most famously in the scandalous trial of Ernest 'Stella' Boulton and Frederick 'Fanny' Park in 1871, and how contemporary transgender identities began to evolve in response.
Juliet Jacques is a journalist and author, best known for writing A Transgender Journey for The Guardian - the first time that the gender reassignment process has been serialised for a mainstream British publication. She has also written for the New Statesman and TimeOut, and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011.
Thursday, February 16th - Celebrating Trans Lives: Trans People's Contributions to Modern Medicine and Culture
Far from being passive and unwitting subjects of medical experimentation, trans people are here shown to be active agents of change - within the NHS, social justice, and British society as a whole. This talk demonstrates the ways in which trans people have contributed to the development of modern-day healthcare, and how the trans community continues to shape medical understandings of, and social responses to, gender variancy.
Dr Louis Bailey is the Co-Founder of TREC - the Trans Resource and Empowerment Centre (www.transcentre.org.uk) - and represents TREC as a Strategic Executive Partner of the National LGB&T Partnership (Department of Health). Dr Bailey's research concerns the medical history of gender variancy, and issues of trans life course and ageing.
Thursday, February 2nd - Changing images of trans people in speculative literature
The availability of magic and advanced science have allowed writers of fantasy and science fiction literature to explore issues of gender in their work. Hugo Award winning critic, Cheryl Morgan, explores how the way in which trans characters have been portrayed in speculative literature has changed as real trans people have become better known to the general public.
Cheryl Morgan is, to her knowledge, the only out trans person ever to have won science fiction’s highest honour, the Hugo Award. Born in Somerset, she has lived in Australia and California and now resides near Bath where she runs a small ebook publishing company and bookstore. She blogs regularly at www.cheryl-morgan.com.
Thursday, February 9th - Transgender before transgender: Cross-dressers and the establishment in Victorian England
The emergence of public cross-dressing in the 19th century industrial city caused great anxiety to the Victorian legal establishment and England's new police forces alike. In this talk, Guardian and New Statesman writer Juliet Jacques (longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011) explores how those who cross-dressed were criminalised, most famously in the scandalous trial of Ernest 'Stella' Boulton and Frederick 'Fanny' Park in 1871, and how contemporary transgender identities began to evolve in response.
Juliet Jacques is a journalist and author, best known for writing A Transgender Journey for The Guardian - the first time that the gender reassignment process has been serialised for a mainstream British publication. She has also written for the New Statesman and TimeOut, and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011.
Thursday, February 16th - Celebrating Trans Lives: Trans People's Contributions to Modern Medicine and Culture
Far from being passive and unwitting subjects of medical experimentation, trans people are here shown to be active agents of change - within the NHS, social justice, and British society as a whole. This talk demonstrates the ways in which trans people have contributed to the development of modern-day healthcare, and how the trans community continues to shape medical understandings of, and social responses to, gender variancy.
Dr Louis Bailey is the Co-Founder of TREC - the Trans Resource and Empowerment Centre (www.transcentre.org.uk) - and represents TREC as a Strategic Executive Partner of the National LGB&T Partnership (Department of Health). Dr Bailey's research concerns the medical history of gender variancy, and issues of trans life course and ageing.
Friday, 30 December 2011
Monday, 19 December 2011
Friday 23rd December - Pineapple - Grand Opening!
The Pineapple will be back open this Friday! 37 St. Georges Rd, BS1 5UU Bristol
Join us for the grand opening!
We're open from 5pm every night thereafter, including Christmas day.
DJ Mat O'Brian from 9pm.
Join us for the grand opening!
We're open from 5pm every night thereafter, including Christmas day.
DJ Mat O'Brian from 9pm.
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