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Befriending Team Correspondence Vol[ume] 3, 23 Feb 1979 - 29 Jan 1980
File
Identifier: GD61/4/1/3
Scope and Contents
Comprises of correspondence sent and received by the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group’s (SHRG) Befriending Team, which includes:Correspondence between members of the Befriending Team about individual cases and organisational and administrative issues, as well as letters to and from prospective/new members and letters of resignation.Correspondence from clients to the Befriending Team asking for information and advice, contacts for external services, and arranging...
Dates:
23 Feb 1979 - 29 Jan 1980
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Bus Advertising, 1993 - 1997
File
Identifier: GD61/5/1/5
Scope and Contents
Records relating to Edinburgh Gay Switchboard’s (EGS) bus advertising, including: correspondence regarding Lothian Regional Transport’s (LRT) refusal to allow EGS to advertise on their buses; correspondence with external organisations and individuals regarding LRT’s rejection (including Lothian Regional Council and Alistair Darling MP); funding applications; advert designs; invoices; and correspondence relating to a successful campaign with Eastern Buses/Scottish Motor Traction....
Dates:
1993 - 1997
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Co-ordinator's Correspondence, 29 Jan 1987 - 23 Nov 1990
File
Identifier: GD61/4/1/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondence received and sent by the Co-Ordinator of the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard relating to both EGS and Lesbian Line. Topics include: finances and fundraising; staffing (including new applications, requests for breaks from duties, and resignations); training and requests for speakers from external organisations; internal correspondence to the membership; advertising including a radio feature and leaflets; and issues with mail deliveries (Royal Mail). External organisations...
Dates:
29 Jan 1987 - 23 Nov 1990
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Correspondence, 2 Jan 1974 - 29 Jul 2004
Series
Identifier: GD61/4
Scope and Contents
This series contains correspondence sent and received by Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard and its predecessor bodies, as well as correspondence relating to the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group Edinburgh Branch. It includes correspondence from service users and members of LGLS. It also includes correspondence relating to the administration and running of the service, training, statistics, staffing, and campaigning.
Further information is provided at sub-series and file...
Dates:
2 Jan 1974 - 29 Jul 2004
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Edinburgh Gay Switchboard and Edinburgh Lesbian Line Annual Report, 1987 - 1988
Item
Identifier: GD61/3/2
Scope and Contents
The Annual Report contains a Co-ordinator's report which discusses: statistics showing an overall decrease in calls but an increase in serious counselling and details of which types of calls have increased; a grant from the Social Work Department; increase in new trainees for Lesbian Line; report on annual Training Conference; increase in befriending calls following a broadcast on the Community Service Announcement Scheme via Scottish Television (STV); introduction of the AIDS working group;...
Dates:
1987 - 1988
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Edinburgh Gay Switchboard and Edinburgh Lesbian Line Annual Report and Accounts, 1993 - 1994
Item
Identifier: GD61/3/5
Scope and Contents
The Annual Report contains a Mission Statement which details the aims and purposes of the Switchboard as stated in the Trust Deed dated 11/12/1985.A Co-ordinator's summary review is provided which discusses the following: an increase in calls and befriending; negative images of gay people in the media resulting in vulnerable people experiencing low self-esteem and other mental health problems which Switchboard are trying to address; overview of call statistics for Edinburgh Gay...
Dates:
1993 - 1994
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Freedom Pride registration form, 1990s
File
Identifier: GD61/5/3/1
Scope and Contents
A registration form for the advertising company, Freedom Pride.
Dates:
1990s
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Gay Scotland, Issue 5, Nov 1982 - Dec 1982
Item
Identifier: GD61/10/2/6
Scope and Contents
Front cover headlines include: "Tom Robinson Talks to Gay Scotland"; "More Female Trouble from Bryony Lavery"; and "It’s Our Bookshop and It’s Scotland’s First", an article on the opening of Lavender Menace.
Contents include: letters from readers; an editorial; news reports including "Lord Lieutenant Refuses to Intervene", which discusses the Fife branch of the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG) being refused advertising space in newspapers and on buses; Gay Women’s Page; recurring...
Dates:
Nov 1982 - Dec 1982
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Gay Scotland, Issue 15, Jul 1984 - Aug 1984
Item
Identifier: GD61/10/2/17
Scope and Contents
Front cover reads: "Marketing Men… or Myths", and shows an advertisement for Soloflex. This issue includes: a financial update from the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG) which was facing insolvency; an article with the headline "Should We Expose Gay MPs?"; London Gay Switchboard receiving £8,000; an article on an Edinburgh Gay Switchboard social event; an update on Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM); news reports covering Minor Problems (publication), a raid at Gay is the Word bookshop, a...
Dates:
Jul 1984 - Aug 1984
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Gay Scotland, Issue 35, Sep 1987 - Oct 1987
Item
Identifier: GD61/10/2/37
Scope and Contents
The front cover reads “What Next?”This issue includes: coverage of the International Lesbian and Gay Conference; a feature examining the “There is Hope” campaign which promoted heterosexuality and published an article titled “AIDS and the new morality”; an article written by a trans woman on her experience of being a lesbian in Edinburgh and the support and discrimination she has received from the community; an interview with Gus Van Sant; a feature looking at the use of nude...
Dates:
Sep 1987 - Oct 1987
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive