'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• THE SERVICE MAKG SURE YOUNG GAY PEOPLE AREN'T FOTTEN AS LOCKDOWN LEAV CANAL STREET SERTEDTHE LEGACY OF A GAY TEENAGER WHO FELL OM THE ROOF OF THE CHORLTON STREET R PARK 1986 LIV ON, WH A MOVEMENT SUPPORTG YOUNG PEOPLE MANCHTER, LONDON AND BRISTOLMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER08:00, 14 NOV 2020UPDATED09:38, 16 NOV 2020BOOKMARKMANCHTER'S GAY VILLAGE IS MOSTLY SHUT DUE TO ERNMENT GUIL (IMAGE: MANCHTER EVENG NEWS)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

As a social hog provir Riversi is already signed up to the HoeProud Pledge scheme, the profsnal work for LGBTQ+ people workg the hog sector, signed to ensure Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer rints are able to enjoy their hom whout fear of discrimatn. John, a young gay man om Manchter, fled his homophobic father’s attacks after g out to his parents. "He was g my gayns and throwg at me, " Joe says.

More than six 10 LGBTQ young people surveyed said they felt ightened or threatened by their fay members before they beme homels, acrdg to an AKT report, while more than half feared beg evicted om the fay home if they me report also claimed that six 10 faced some form of discrimatn or harassment while accsg rearch took place over six months to January and terviewed 161 LGBTQ people aged 16-25 who had experienced homelsns the past five Joe and Sara said they had faced barriers while accsg servic that were lked to their sexualy, rangg om homophobia om landlords or other homels people, to forms that didn't list their sexualy. As the only gay person his block of sheltered flats Salford, ronavis has heightened his sense of lonels.

Sgle, whout any close fay and cut off om an active social life Manchter’s gay village, he spends most of the day wh only the TV for, 57, has been through a panmic before. ”After years of havg to hi his sexual inty at work, Moss says now as a “proud, gay man”, would jt be easier to live his old age supported by LGBTQ+ people and is not alone.

THE SERVICE MAKG SURE YOUNG GAY PEOPLE AREN'T FOTTEN AS LOCKDOWN LEAV CANAL STREET SERTEDTHE LEGACY OF A GAY TEENAGER WHO FELL OM THE ROOF OF THE CHORLTON STREET R PARK 1986 LIV ON, WH A MOVEMENT SUPPORTG YOUNG PEOPLE MANCHTER, LONDON AND BRISTOLMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER08:00, 14 NOV 2020UPDATED09:38, 16 NOV 2020BOOKMARKMANCHTER'S GAY VILLAGE IS MOSTLY SHUT DUE TO ERNMENT GUIL (IMAGE: MANCHTER EVENG NEWS)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Jt over half (51%) of the 150 plac are to be alloted to LGBTQ+ people aged over 55, who need extra physil or mental two-thirds of re home staff surveyed by Manchter and Nottgham universi 2014 sayg they did not have a gay, lbian, bisexual or trans rint, the scheme uld not e soon enough. Almost two-thirds (64%) lacked support om an LGBTQ+ specific anisatn, 42% wanted mental health support and 8% felt, 55, a gay trans male, who me out ls than three years ago and recently moved to the cy, liv alone and has fibromyalgia, which lims his activy.

”Manchter blazed an ternatnal trail for gay rights wh the buildg of Europe’s first gay centre 1986 and a thrivg gay village. Th, rortg to sofa surfg; sleepg b shelters; g gay snas and hook-up apps. He has agreed to talk if I don't give his real name or reveal too many tails about him or where he years ago, Green me out as gay to his fay and was rejected.

The four-bedroom hoe he has moved to was opened this summer by the chary the Albert Kennedy Tst (AKT), for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) young people. Settg up the hoe, and another London, was a long-held dream of the 24-year-old chary, which was found memory of a 16-year-old gay man who, havg n away om a children's home, was found ad at the bottom of a multi-storey r park Manchter.