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New Stuff

• Transgender or Trans - A practical guide for the NHS: http://lancashirecare.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/transgender-or-trans-a-practical-guide-for-the-nhs/
• Gay Britain website launched, aimed at migrant gay men http://www.gaybritain.chapsonline.org.uk/index.htm The site includes leaflets to download in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Polish. It also includes information such as guidelines for organisations working with migrants and an audit tool for professionals who work with migrants to help reduce their vulnerability to HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. CHAPS is a partnership of community-based organisations, co-ordinated by Terrence Higgins Trust, carrying out HIV health promotion with gay men in England and Wales. (WTYL 22/09/08 and Refugee Council news review)

Trainers & Relevant Agencies

• To subscribe to OutSpoken, the newsletter of the Consortium of LGBT 3rd Sector Organisations (Voluntary & Community), email Tim Eastwood at membership@lgbtconsortium.org.uk (Issue 01 May 2008 sent by Mary Harrington at Doncaster Libraries)
• Stonewall (tackling homophobia in education): http://www.stonewall.org.uk/education_for_all/about_us/ The Stonewall, Tower Building, York Road, London, SE1 7NX. or email education@stonewall.org.uk or telephone 020 7593 1861.
• Sheffield Centre for HIV & Sexual Health: Contacts are Tony Atkin, Sexual Health Promotion Specialist, tony.atkin@chiv.nhs.uk 0114 229 1908, or Matt Harrison, Sexual Health Support Worker, matt.harrison@chiv.nhs.uk 0114 229 1919.
• Rennie Brown of South Yorkshire Police has now set up her own training consultancy offering courses in 'Introducing LGB & T into the workplace' Tel; 01302 729044, Email; catreni4@btinternet.com or email Gilly for a copy of the flyer.
• John Vincent, The Network - ('tackling social exclusion in libraries, museums, archives and galleries') john@nadder.org.uk

Stock & Information Resources

• Gay Pride Events: see www.gaytoz.com/united/prides.html (New Internationalist June 2008)
• This website about Transgender Health issues is American (Brown University, Rhode Island), but looks useful and easy to negotiate: 'Transgender students at Brown often have health concerns that other students may not. They may have concerns about housing, “coming out,” name changes, bathroom use, pronoun use, and safety, among many other things. This page is meant to provide guidance for students who identify as transgender so they may take steps to be in control of their health. See: http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Health_Services/Health_Education/general_health/lgbt_trans.htm
• Sheffield Archives & Local Studies section of Sheffield Libraries, Archives & Information celebrated LGBT History month (Feb) 2008 with a new study guide which gives 'Sources for the study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities'. (NB the sources cover the 19th-21st centuries and are those available in Sheffield's collections such as Edward Carpenter's papers, criminalisation and court reports, places to meet, 1967 decriminalisation, and Section 28 amongst others.) To download a copy, go to: http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/archives-and-local-studies/publications and scroll down the page to the 'Downloads'. (Sheffield City Council's DEL News [staff] Feb 2008)
• Sheffield factory worker Dean Dudley and his wife Robyn, have found themselves catapulted into the media spotlight ever since Dean decided to go public with his alter-ego Deanne. For years transvestite Dean, from Barnsley, kept his secret life as a cross-dresser under wraps for fear of being ridiculed or mocked. But after biting the bullet and wearing a dress to his own wedding reception, Dean says he has been showered with nothing but compliments. Dean and American wife Robyn, 28, have helped to set up an internet forum for cross dressers. The site - which can be found by logging on to https://groups.msn.com/lefemmes - offers support to other transvestites as well as listing local events and nights out for the community to enjoy. (The Star online 26/01/08: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Celebrity-lifestyle-for-transvestite-Dean.3712896.jp )
• Black Pride Gay Pride: A history of black LGBT in the capital A small exhibition Outside Edge opens at Museum in Docklands on 7 February 2008 and is a journey through black British lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history of the last 30 years. A study day is being held in conjunction with the display on Saturday 23 February and will explore London’s black LGBT history through talks, discussion and debate with Ajamu from rukus! Lynette Goddard, Historian and Steven G Fullwood, project director of Black, Gay and Lesbian Archive, New York. The rukus! black LGBT Archive was launched in 2005. Its aim is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and make otherwise available to the public historical, cultural, and artistic materials related to the black LGBT communities in the United Kingdom. www.untoldlondon.org.uk the website about the diverse history of London will run an in-depth feature on rukus! to launch the new LGBT history section. (extract from press release forwarded by Mary Harrington, Doncaster Libraries 28/01/08, email Gilly for the full copy of the press release, and a flyer for the events)
• MySalaam.com www.mysalaam.com/site This a new on-line resource for Asian and Arab LGBT communities and their friends. It includes features, articles, blogs, message boards, community news and listings and aims to fill the current void for people from these communities. It provides a free, up-to-date and safe environment for users to interact, and get information. [WTYL 04/06/07]
• Topics available for swapping booklists on Blackwell's Online Bookshop include 'Gay/ Lesbian' and 'Religion' amongst others:
  www.just-published.co.uk (UM July/ August 2006)
• The National Archives now has an LGBT history portal called 'Out There': http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/partnerprojects/outthere/ (UM April 2006)
• 'Services and Groups for Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexual People in Sheffield 2004' produced by the Centre for HIV & Sexual Health (Tel: 0114 226 1900)
• Manchester Libraries had lots of event for LGBT month (no contacts given), but a record of a 'Herstory' reminiscence session will be held at the Central Library's Archives and Local Studies Unit. (UM May 2006)
• To find out more about LGBT history and archive collections, go to the National Archives' 1967 and all that project website: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/partnerprojects/a4a/projects/1967.htm

Research/ Background Information

• Consultation on the new Equality Framework for Local Government (http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=8488097 IDeA have produced an updated version of the Framework for consultation (http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/8493290 ) – they want views from local authorities that have implemented the Equality Standard, and the deadline is 16 Aug 2008. This new version picks up particularly on changes in local demography (including migration), and simplifies the process, whilst also broadening the definitions “which includes the groups that enjoy legal protection against discrimination – race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age – but also encourages authorities to work with other groups who may face disadvantage and discrimination, such as white working class boys, looked after children and groups like Gypsies and Travellers whose needs have often been ignored.” (WTYL 07/07/08)
• In Far Off Librarian's blog (an academic distance learning librarian), there is a posting on transgender and conformity issues and distance learning: http://farofflibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/06/confluence-of-transgender-and-distance.html (http://farofflibrarian.blogspot.com/ 4th June 2006)
• For a copy of Stonewall's report Serves You Right - Lesbian and Gay People's expectations of discrimination by Ruth Hunt and Sam Dick, email Gilly. (Sent by Mary Harrington, Doncaster Libraries)
• The Journal Information for Social Change (ISC: http://libr.org/isc/index.html ) had a Special Issue on Libraries & Social Exclusion (issue 26 Winter 07-08): http://libr.org/isc/issues/ISC26/ISC%2026%20full%20issue.pdf (whole issue) Individual articles in the issue include: He didn’t have to say he was gay (John Vincent) (Library Juice Blog 03/03/08: http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=377 )
• To access a copy of Pink Perceptions: the information needs of LGBT library users as perceived by public librarians and by the LGBT communities within Sheffield UK and Denver, Co, USA by Megan O'Leary September 2005 (MA Librarianship student thesis from the Dept of Information Studies, University of Sheffield), go to http://cplis.shef.ac.uk/publications.htm (scroll down the page to Student Master Dissertations 2005).