08/06/2015 – Scene Magazine – From the heart of LGBTQ+ Life

MindOUT will be running a campaign later this year to highlight LGBTQ mental health issues.

Campaign organisers want LGBT people to get involved and tell them the following:

♦ Why LGBTQ mental health is important to them
♦ What they would like the rest of the world to know
♦ What they would like people to do
♦ What has helped/harmed their mental health
♦ If they use mental health services are they out?

MindOut want you to make short video selfies, write down your thoughts and share your experiences.

They also want friends and family to share how they may have changed their attitudes and learnt about discrimination regarding mental health.

For more information, or to submit your pieces, email:

Or telephone 01273 234839

MindOut will be at Trans* Pride and LGBT Pride, so you can talk to them there.

The historic overwhelming vote for same-sex marriage in Ireland in May 2015, in the face of fierce opposition from the Catholic Church, is examined in-depth in the latest issue of The Pink Humanist published by the UK LGBT Humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust.

WHILE the Catholic Church may have received a major snub over LGBT rights in Ireland, it still manages to maintain a stranglehold on the people of Poland. In a separate article, Sue Cox, co-founder of Survivors Voice Europe and a patron of the Pink Triangle Trust, describes the opposition she and fellow non-believers encountered when they staged an atheist conference in Poland earlier this year.

Other features in the latest issue include:

An op-ed – “From Stonewall to Indiana: The Collision Between Religious Freedom and Gay Rights” – by US-based Dr Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skepticmagazine.

A profile of James Lees Milne, a leading figure in the National Trust, who was recently described by gay writer and broadcaster Matthew Parris as “a silly old queen”.

A report on the work of the Naz and Matt Foundation, a British charity set up with the aim of never allowing religion – any religion – to come in the way of the “unconditional love between parents and their children”.

An examination of LGBT rights in Cuba, where a blessing of gay couples recently took place, even though the country still does not permit same-sex marriage.

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