LGBTQ+ youth

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: social events; training questionnaires; Dunblane Conference; support groups; reduction in number of women working on Lesbian Line; the Central Region Gay Group; and the Stonewall Youth Project.

Also noted is that the Trust Deed was available for team members to consult in the filing cabinet and a copy of the Trust Deed is attached to this set of minutes.

An agenda is provided for the Team Meeting of 19/07/1989.

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: office equipment; Fife Switchboard; training; Body Positive; the Dunblane Conference; Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM); recent calls; and a warning about scandal-seeking journalists and disclosing information to befrienders.

Also discussed is the Stonewall Youth Project and a flow-chart is provided which shows when to refer a caller.

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: Stonewall Youth Group; draft of new leaflets; Edinburgh Gay Switchboard (EGS) 1990 Conference; advertising; Icebreakers; reverse charges on telephone bill; trainees; and a request for a speaker from the University of Edinburgh Nightline.

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: the training officer's report; Fife Friend; the rota; request for speakers at a meeting of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM); Icebreakers; the Social Work Department grant; a new volunteer application form; interviews for trainees; contact with the media; and the Stonewall Youth Group.

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: letterheads and leaflets; training questionnaire; the Stonewall Youth Project; the Lothian Gay Youth Group; the training officer's report; the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) Annual Conference; a request from the Metropolitan Community Church to use EGS's PO Box; the Scottish and Northern England Switchboard Conference; and Icebreakers.

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: reports from the training officer and treasurer; team member groups; job descriptions; Icebreakers; Welcome Group; proposed changes to the code of conduct; membership questions; request for a speaker to talk to nurses; review of leave of absence option; the Conference of Scottish and Northern English Switchboards; an informational update on gay friendly venues and events; and an update on the Stonewall Youth Group.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: membership questions; a new advertising officer; the new information system; Forth Friend; feedback on a Lesbian Line social event; job descriptions; Icebreakers; discussion of cards; training report; Stonewall Youth Group; and an update on the 'TV/TS' Group (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, and TS refers to an abbreviated...

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...

Scope and Contents The minutes begin with a report on a presentation from Lothian and Borders Police concerning the new Lesbian and Gay Police Liaison in the Serious Crimes Squad (Police Scotland Headquarters at Fettes Avenue). There is further discussions concerning public relations and launching the scheme. Concerns amongst members about police and community relationships are also raised and discussed.Other topics discussed include: call cards; befriending issues concerning a meeting with a...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: a correspondence course on inter-personal skills offered by the University of Wales; the dissolution of the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard Trust; premises for the Stonewall Youth Project; a funding application to the Transitional Relief Fund due to the reorganisation of the council; comments and concerns relating to moving premises; the Busy Line Tracking System and statistics; a Lesbian Line report covering feedback on training on domestic violence; a training...