GLYNI – Gay and Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland

Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week is brought to you by BeLonG To Youth Services the national youth service for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Young People.

SPRING! Less spending on oil, gas and plumbing repairs…more on queer artsy goodness, woo hoo! Here’s some great LGBT cinema and theatre coming your way in the next month… Check out CROOKED, a new lesbian-themed play by Queen’s University Drama students Brian Friel Theatre (QFT Building) 23rd-25th March 7.30pm £6/£4 “CROOKED takes an intimate look [...]

See our calendar for events in GLYNI over the next few months. We have everything, from the special screening of Stonewall’s new FIT film, to creating an effective Anti-Homophobic Bullying Campaign for NI, from meeting with the NIABF Coordinator to meetings with Family Ties and Brook Clinic, as well as inviting the Children’s Commissioner to meet the [...]

A conservative US state senator who has voted against gay rights consistently during his 14 years in government has came ‘out of the closet’ – he is gay! Republican Roy Ashburn came out during a radio interview in California, for KERN radio, where he said, “I am gay… those are the words that have been [...]

The Coming Out Resource, compiled by GLYNI and funded by The Youth Council for Northern Ireland, is ready to go to the designers!! However, we still need input from you, the young people. What we would like, are your stories and those of your families and friends, your experiences of coming out, the positives the [...]