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We are recruiting LGBTQIA+ people with experiences of Conversion Practices (also known as conversion therapies, reparative therapies, and cure therapies) to take part in interviews about their experience. Call out for individuals to be interviewed about their experiences with conversion practices (also known as conversion therapies or reparative therapies). These practices encompasses all medical, psychological, …

Research Participants required for Department for Communities research on Conversion Therapy Read More »

LGBTQI+ Awareness Week will take place this year from 16th – 22nd of May. With a whole range of events to choose from please check out, like, and share the programme with friends and family. The programme can be found here: www.yumpu.com/s/4zbXkQ17n2eM9iqa

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Eimear Willis is The Rainbow Project’s Health and Wellbeing Officer in the Western Area. Heya, it’s Eimear here. I work with the adult groups in the Derry office. It’s Lesbian Visibility Week, and I wanted to take some time out to talk a bit about being a gay woman living in the North West as …

Lesbian Visibility Week: I need a Shero!! Read More »

Three women from across Northern Ireland share their stories of coming to terms with their sexual orientation and coming out. Annie Hi my name is Annie, I’m a 32 year old, finally out and proud lesbian, in the Causeway Coast and Glens area. It’s Lesbian Visibility Week and I would like to share a bit …

Lesbian Visibility Week: Three women, three stories of coming out Read More »

Rebecca Toolan is a lesbian from Belfast who currently works in marketing and occasionally writes about pop culture, politics, and LGBT issues. You can follow her on Twitter at @rebtool     “Lesbians really do exist!” exclaimed Derry Girls’ Orla McCool against the backdrop of the North of Ireland in the mid-1990s, around the same time …

With visibility comes community, empowerment and self-confidence for young lesbians Read More »

Our counsellor Nat Creighton talks about notable trans & non-binary icons and why visibility is important!

Iíve been working as a Counsellor at the Rainbow Project for eight years now and the impending Pride season is in danger of being treated by me rather like some people treat their long term partners…loved but alas not shown much love.