Youth

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Topics discussed include: a potential affiliation with National Friend; cleaning arrangements; Friends of Gay Switchboard (FROGS); training weekend; a youthline set up by the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG); an extension of Lesbian Line; establishing Body Positive in Edinburgh; and reports of muggings on Regent Road and in Regent Road Park.

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Topics discussed include: a weekend training conference; a Friend conference in Manchester; training; Friends of Gay Switchboard (FROGS); Edinburgh University Gaysoc; West Lothian Young People's Advisory Service; and Switchboard receiving concerns about Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM).

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Topics discussed include: Radio Forth; an update on the Northern Switchboards Conference; the establishment of the Lesbian Line; information on the Youth Enquiry Service (YES) based in Leith; and feedback on a follow up meeting for the 'TV' service.

Note: TV is an abbreviated form of the historical term transvestite used to describe individuals who wear clothes associated with a gender other than their gender assigned at birth.

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Topics discussed include: the community service announcement; an update on training; the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) annual general meeting (AGM); the Stonewall Youth Group; an update on Scottish AIDS Monitor's (SAM) move to new premises; statistics, St. Andrew's Nightline; an article about elderly gay people for publication in the Scotsman; and a complaint about the way EGS has been mentioned in the Young Scot Magazine.

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Topics discussed include: the Social Work Department grant application; the future training programme for both the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard (EGS) and Lesbian Line; Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM) moving premises; press interest in EGS including a community service announcement and the Scottish Parent Enquiry; the EGS youth strategy; and the EGS one-day conference.

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Topics discussed include: Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM) moving premises; the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) youth strategy; Scottish Parents Enquiry; a Friends of Gay Switchboard (FROGS) party; and the EGS one day conference.

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Topics discussed include: Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM) moving premises; the University of Edinburgh's Gaysoc; the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) youth strategy; and a party for Friends of Gay Switchboard (FROGS).

EGS training is discussed including training evenings on religion, promiscuity, bereavement, and incest. Lesbian Line training is also discussed and a list of trainees and mentors for both Lesbian Line and EGS is provided.

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Topics discussed include: annual reports; VAT owed on rent; insurance; training; the Dunblane Conference; an update on Body Positive; the Social Work Department grant for 1990; Fife Switchboard; and advertising.

Also discussed was the Stonewall Youth Group and a separate sheet is attached detailing this discussion and the procedure for referring callers to the Group.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: calls; Lesbian Line report; the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) Residential Weekend and Annual General Meeting; in-service training; services for the hearing impaired; membership update; the Lothian Lesbian and Gay Youth Movement; and mentor groups.A note on the murder of Andrew Kerr is also provided and a proposal to introduce the tracing of phone calls made to EGS. Andrew Kerr was a gay man who was murdered in his flat in Edinburgh by a man he had...

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Topics discussed include: a request for help from Borders Gay Group regarding the establishment of a helpline; an update on AIDS related work; advertising; attending a talk at Christ Church Youth Fellowship; training; and a proposal for extension of Switchboard's hours.