GayCon 2010: Gay Men's Sexual Health and Wellbeing - 3rd National Conference for Scotland 20th and 21st October 2010 at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

List of external links:

• Alzheimer's Society's LGBT Support Group for people with dementia and their carers
• Befrienders Highland is a voluntary organisation and charity which provides a confidential befriending service for people across the Highland Council Region who have experience of mental ill health and who feel lonely and isolated, both socially and/or geographically.
• Breathing Space a free phone-line for people experiencing low mood and depression in Scotland.
  Their web site has a useful list of Scottish support groups
• Brook - 77 Church Street, Inverness. Tel: 01463 242434. No appointments needed. Free and confidential counselling and sexual health services to young people under 25 (including any aspect of sexuality, sex and relationships). Contraception, emergency contraception, pregnancy testing, infection screening, etc. Ask Brook free helpline number 0808 802 1234. Text service on 81222 also available - click here for details.
• Choose Life Highland - helping to prevent suicide
• Centre for Women's Health (Glasgow)
• Connected Scotland - a website dedicated to gay and bisexual men living with HIV, their partners, family and friends
• Depression Alliance Scotland
• Gay Men's Health - Scotland's charity for gay men with offices in Edinburgh & Glasgow offering counselling, advice, testing, remote reporting, information
• Gender Identity Research and Education Society
• Get Rubbered - free condoms and lube by post for gay and bisexual men in Scotland
• 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
• Highland Community Care Forum
• Highland Home Carers - providing a flexible, quality home care and support service, enabling individuals to remain in their own home with assistance in maintaining their current lifestyle and promoting independence where possible. Registered with the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care to provide Care at Home and Housing Support Services.
• Highland Users Group - collective advocacy group, which represents the interests of users of mental health services across the Highlands
• HIV Scotland - the leading national policy and strategic HIV charity
• HIV Wake-up - information about the importance of HIV testing. NHS Sexual Health Information Line: 0800 121 4590 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
• Julia Gordon - counselling service (based in Inverness)
• LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing (Edinburgh) - meeting place for lots of groups and social activities. 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.
• Men's Health Highland
• Raigmore Hospital G.U.M. Clinic - telephone: 01463 704202
• ROAM Outreach - working with cruising men and male sex workers and provides information and support including confidential testing.
• Sexual Health Scotland
• 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

Useful links also include:

Domestic Abuse

• Scotland's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Domestic Abuse Project
• Broken Rainbow