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The meeting was called to discuss possible support systems for members and there are additional sheets detailing the following ideas for team support: a mentor-group model, a team mentor or 'befriender's befriender' model and a proposed structure for team support.

Also included is a sheet detailing which terms to avoid in relation to AIDS as well as Edinburgh Gay Switchboard job specifications.

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Topics discussed include: membership questions; job descriptions; register of interests within membership; the Dunblane Conference; mentor groups; a training report; and a discussion of calls.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: the death of a former member who died following complications related to AIDS; membership questions; Welcome Group; the National Bisexual Conference; phone duty commitment; new arrangements for the team mentors scheme; Icebreakers; the Dunblane Conference; job descriptions; training report; and questions relating to Dundee contacts and the organisation, At Ease, which provides advice and information to members of the Armed Forces.Additional pages include...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: affiliation with the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG); minimum phone duty commitment required of members; new call card design; the Welcome Group; Icebreakers; discussion of cards; training report; mentors group; fundraising officer; 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...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: affiliation with the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG); the Welcome Group; Icebreakers; request for a talk at EULAGS and LAGS on older lesbians and gay men in Scotland; a request for speakers on the subject of gay community/disunity at the University of Edinburgh's Nightline; room occupied by Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM); advertising report; fundraising officer; membership questions; the Annual Conference; a discussion of cards; a training report; mentor...

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Topics discussed include: a Lesbian Line update; training report; discussion of informing trainees that they have been selected; Tay Friend - Perth Phone Line; heating system; a new Stonewall phone line; disabled volunteers and expenses; advertising; and mentor groups.

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Topics discussed include: calls; trainees; a Lesbian Line update; mentor groups; training group; Icebreakers; a Christmas Party; the 1992 Residential Training Weekend and Annual General Meeting; and World AIDS Day.

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...