Galop Newsletter

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. The online launch of our new report: "Commissioning for inclusion: Delivering services for LGBT+ survivors of domestic abuse" is fast approaching. If you plan to attend, please register to ensure your place. The Zoom link with the log-in details will be sent an hour before the event to all registered delegates. Please join us at the online launch event on November 19th, 2020 10:30am – 12:15pm, register here. We hope that the guidance can be used to facilitate an dialogue at a local, regional and national level on how commissioners, service providers, policymakers and the government can work individually and collectively to better meet the needs of LGBT+ survivors within commissioning and procurement activity, as well as service provision.  Please contact Dr. Jasna Magić, research and policy development at Galop, for any questions on this event. (jasna@galop.org.uk)    Provisional agenda:  10:30 – 10:40: Welcome and introduction  10:40 – 11:00: Headline addresses:  Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner  Lynne Abrams, Head of the Interpersonal Violence Unit, Home Office   11:00 – 11:30: Presentation of key findings: Meghan Field and James Rowlands (authors)  11:30 –12:15: Panel discussion on the role and value of LGBT+ services in addressing domestic abuse and the need for commissioners to respond to the gaps in current commissioning practices.  Confirmed panel speakers:  Meghan Field, Director, Advance Charity James Rowlands, Independent Consultant  Peter Kelley, Head of Domestic Abuse Service, Galop  Prof. Catherine Donovan, Durham University      About Galop   Galop gives advice and support to people who have experienced biphobia, homophobia, transphobia, sexual violence or domestic abuse. In addition to working with individual people, we work to improve the criminal justice system for us all, and to find ways to support victims of crime who do not want to go to the police. We are a completely independent community-led group and we are not connected to the police. Follow Us www.galop.org.uk   Contact Us: National LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0800 999 5428 By email: info@galop.org.uk By mail: 356 Holloway Road, London, N7 6PA    www.galop.org.uk  |  info@galop.org.uk Galop 356 Holloway Road London N7 6PA Copyright (C)  Galop   You are receiving this email because you have signed up via our website or told us you would like to hear from us.

Kick Start Scheme for young people from our member Andrew Waite.

 Hi Jean-Francois,

 

Hope you are well…

This is Andrew a Gay Professional Network member for some years now.

 

My organisation is a “Gateway Intermediary” for the Government’s new kick Start Scheme to provide young people whose salaries are paid for 6 months at minimum wage.

Would it be possible to pass the information around to the gay business community please?

 

It seems such a great opportunity to keep businesses going and helping young people stay in work.

Anyone interested must have a business or charity.

 

If you or organisations you know wish to take part, you/they can register interest at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeExMNBVkgn39yTAeUMBjdGqbAEN6Z3kpNdOiNXJTLp-uIVHg/viewform?usp=sf_link

 

Very much appreciate if you could spread the word amongst members.

 

Kind regards,

Andrew Waite

Chief Executive

                                

2020 Finalist – SME Community Organisation of the Year

2020 Listed – Social Entrepreneur Index Awards.

2019 Finalist – Governance Professional of the Year

2019 Winner: Best Interactive Group Talks & Presentations

Newsletter from the Westminster LGBT Forum - October 2020

View this email in your browser Westminster LGBT Forum Newsletter - October 2020 Dear Friend We are all living in challenging times at present but despite this, the Forum has put together a range of interesting events and activities to keep your spirits up, including a programme of events organised by Outings in Art, our arts and culture partners. Westminster City Council are seeking your views on Housing Policy and Strategy and have issued a Homelessness Strategy, so check these out on our website. We also have some useful Help and Advice resources to support our members.   Subject to Covid-19 restrictions, we hope to hold a real Forum meeting in November. Details will be included on our website and in the next Newsletter.   We are always open to ideas for events and useful information for the benefit of our members, so feel free to contact us and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.   Note: Under current Government restrictions, pre booking for inside events is essential and the numbers attending may be subject to a maximum depending on the venue. Please check the venue’s website when making a booking. Facemasks are required to be worn within venues. The Gay Liberation Front  Fifty years ago on 13 October 1970, the Gay Liberation Front was founded at the London School of Economics. The formation of the GLF was a watershed moment in British LGBT+ history. For the first time, thousands of LGBT+ people protested against our persecutors. Read More    To celebrate the GLF’s trailblazing activism, join a candle lit vigil on Tuesday 13 October 2020 at 6 p.m. outside the London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2B 4RR. Write an Open Letter to Queer Britain Throughout history, the experiences of LGBTQ+ people have been erased, overlooked or marginalised. Queer Britain want future generations to see themselves. History does not live in dusty archives, it is alive in us all in the here and now.   In partnership with Levi’s® and Post Office, members of the LGBTQ+ communities and allies are invited to write an open letter to Queer Britain. These will live in their collection and will record and preserve valuable accounts of what it means to be LGBTQ+ in Britain today.   Be part of history. Read More and see how to take part. Frieze Sculpture in Regent’s Park As parks go, Regent’s Park is well stocked with many interesting things, including a zoo, a boating lake, and an open air theatre. This autumn, they’ve added an armada of art as Frieze Sculpture takes up residence in the park’s English Gardens from 5 to 18 October 2020. It’s well worth a visit. LIVE: A Programme of Sound & Performance for Frieze Week 2020 For the 2020 LIVE Programme, Frieze will present The Institute of Melodic Healing (IMH), an ‘institute of sound and performance’ from 8 to 11 October 2020 and broadcast online from 6 to 11 October 2020.   Curated by Victor Wang (王宗孚) (Artistic Director and Chief Curator of M WOODS Museum, Beijing), LIVE will take place at 9 Cork Street, where Wang, alongside a group of artists, will establish a temporary institute of sound and performance art inaugurated as the Institute of Melodic Healing, during Frieze Week. Read More about the programme and how to access the Frieze Viewing Room.    Summer Exhibition 6 October 2020 to 3 January 2021 For the first time in history, the Summer Exhibition will fall in winter. But at the Royal Academy, summer is a state of mind, not a time of year. Discover a myriad of works by household names and emerging artists inside our joyous festival of art.   This year’s exhibition includes new works by Tracey Emin, Rebecca Horn, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Gillian Wearing, and Ai Weiwei.   Read More about the event and how to book.  The Young Artists Summer Show The Young Artists’ Summer Show is a free, open submission exhibition for young people aged 5 to 19 years, taking place both online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts to recognise talented young artists. All of the artworks are available to view online, with a selection appearing in the on-site exhibition taking place in the RA's Clore Learning Centre between 19 October to 22 November 2020.   The artwork shown above is titled 'We Are Not the Same' by Sahar, age 14. A portrait of his brother about how the modern world contrasts with his family's traditional Afghan culture. Howard Hodgkin: Memories 1 October to 11 December 2020 at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 38 Bury Street SW1Y 6BB from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday   This exhibition is devoted to the art of Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017), who is widely regarded as one of the leading British painters of the last fifty years.   Bringing together nineteen of the artist’s most distinctive paintings, Howard Hodgkin: Memories focuses on the 1980s and 1990s, two decades during which Hodgkin’s art attained the stylistic maturity and expressive vitality that secured international recognition.   No booking required. Read More    The Photographers’ Gallery Untitled: Source The Photographer's Gallery 9 October 2020 to 7 February 2021   The Photographer’s Gallery mounts the first retrospective of New Delhi-born artist Sunil Gupta..   From his involvement in New York’s gay liberation movement during the 1970s to more recent campaigning in India, Gupta employs photography to raise awareness of LGBTQIA+ rights. Read More  Black History Month 1 to 30 October 2020   The Zari Gallery is presenting an exhibition featuring British and International Black Artists in celebration of Black History Month. Their team has carefully curated a number of artists each with their own story.    See Zari Gallery for more information and how to book. My World and Your World This sculpture by Eva Rothschild in Lewis Cubitt Park, Kings Cross, descends from a single point, diverging into branches which sink into the ground. The shape is inspired by the natural world; it could be the branches of an inverted tree, a river basin, a lightning bolt.   The entire artwork is painted in bold stripes using the artist’s distinctive palette of black, purple, pink, orange, green, and red. The stripes confuse the eye, seeming to split the solid structure into parts. See My World and Your World for further information. Zanele Muholi Exhibition 5 November 2020 to 7 March 2021 Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date.   Muholi describes themself as a visual activist. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of South Africa’s black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities.   For more information and how to book, see Tate Modern Exhibition. Thanks for reading and we look forward to seeing you soon. Westminster LGBT Forum www.westminsterlgbtforum.org Copyright © 2020 Westminster LGBT Forum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are a Friend of the Westminster LGBT Community Forum Our mailing address is: Westminster LGBT Forum 7 Francis Walk London, N1 0LJ United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Further update on the "Gay Conversion Therapy," letter from Elizabeth Truss, Equality Minister

We recently signed the petition “Make LGBT conversion therapy illegal in the UK”:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300976

The Petitions Committee has today published a letter from Elizabeth Truss MP, Minister for Women and Equalities. This was in response to the Committee’s request for an update on the Governments plans to ban ‘conversion therapy’.

You can read the response in full here: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2677/documents/26594/default/

You can find the original letter to the Minister here: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2172/documents/20109/default/

Follow the Committee on Twitter for updates on our work on this issue and others: https://www.twitter.com/hocpetitions

GPN talks with Mark Bunyan 28-07-2020

An update on plans to ban ‘conversion therapy’:

An update on plans to ban ‘conversion therapy’:

As you may know in previous years in my speech at the House of Lords Reception, I have expressed my anger and dismay at such barbaric and antiquated method being used in legality in UK.

The current petition of over 200,000 signatures followed another two on this issue. Despite its inclusion in the Government’s 2018 LGBT Action Plan, legislation has still not been introduced.

Read the letter from the Petition Committee To the Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss, minister for Women and Equalities here: 

https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2172/documents/20109/default/

The Network's talks July and August, and our weekly meetings.

Dear Supporters of The Network,

Hope all is well with you.

In July we do not have a speaker, as he thought it best to wait and find out what is happening.

It is too early yet to decide whenever and  whether or not we are going to go back to physical meetings, the Civil Service Club is reopening on Monday but the covid-19 preventative measure make it impossible at the moment with no more than 4 people in a room! It may well be that do a combination of both zoom and physical meeting in the future but time only will tell.

In August Sandra Shevey is talking about Alfred Hitchcock, and it will be online given the present circumstances, you can book and discover more about it on Zoom. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-network-with-sandra-shevey-alfred-hitchcock-registration-75299196925 Please note that the meeting will be in evening gearing us back to normal timings.k

Our weekly meetings continue for members of The Network to catch up. Thursdays 4 to 5pm. Not a member yet?  Join us on https://the-network.one and take advantage of the 50% off the membership fee  for the duration of the pandemic.

Distant socialising! Together we are stronger!

  

A reminder of The Network Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4450647/
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenetworklondon/
• https://twitter.com/thenetworklondo
• https://chat.whatsapp.com/FqVLgy2fZmv1wlS8ZmMzFn
• https://t.me/The1Network (new)

I very much look forward to hearing from and to seeing you again soon.

Best regards, 

Jean-François.

Founder

The Network since 2012

jf@the-network.one

https://the-network.one