HIGHLAND LGBT FORUM & SOCIAL GROUP Making the LGBT community more visible in the Highlands

Health Links - external web sites

Please note that these links are provided for information
and that the web sites concerned do not necessarily represent the views of the Highland LGBT Forum
and we are not responsible for their content.

Health

• Breathing Space a free phone-line for people experiencing low mood and depression in Scotland
• Centre for Women's Health (Glasgow)
• Connected Scotland - a website dedicated to gay and bisexual men living with HIV, their partners, family and friends
• Gender Identity Research and Education Society
• GMFA - the gay men's health charity
• Healthy Gay Scotland - sexual advice for gay and bisexual men - includes the Cocktales comics and free condoms by mail order
• HIV Scotland - the leading national policy and strategic HIV charity
• Julia Gordon - counselling service (based in Inverness)
• LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing (Edinburgh) - includes T-Time (on the third Saturday of every month) a friendly, informal social event for transgendered folk of every kind. Changing facilities available.
• LGBT Health Scotland - web site includes research publications and Good LGBT Practice in the NHS
• LGBT Youth Scotland - includes lots of info pages and support
• Lothian Gay & Lesbian Switchboard - offers an e-mail support service, an Icebreaker social group, face to face befriending, remote crime reporting, sexual health promotion and social events as well as the main helpline and Lesbian Line.
• Raigmore Hospital G.U.M. Clinic - telephone: 01463 704202
• Terrence Higgins Trust (UK-wide) includes the THT Inverness office (tel: 01463 711 585) which offers free confidential information and advice (on HIV, STI’s, safer sex and other related issues), testing and free condoms / lube.
• Trans Men Scotland - a self help support group for all female to male transgender people, with monthly meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow