GLYNI – Gay and Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland

Lifetime GLYNI member Erin McKenna will appear on the September edition of GCN(Gay Community News) The American Beauty will appear alongside members from BeLonG To! (Dublin) and shOUT! (Galway) in an annual youth GCN photo-shoot. Erin talks briefly about her time at GLYNI and the hard work she has done for Carafriend. Posing with some [… Read More]

GLYNI has received funding to develop two new resources! The funding is to develop a sexual education programme for LGBT youth, as well as developing a resource pack for young women. This is a great chance for GLYNI and its members to decide how future students may be educated! It’s also a great opportunity for [… Read More]

Stonewall held their annual Education for All Conference in London, on Monday 7th July, attended by The Rainbow Project, Cara-Friend GLYNI and NUS-USI LGBT. Participants from all across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland attended a one day long conference in the historical capital, focussing on Homophobia in Education, hosted by Stonewall England. The event, [… Read More]

Hopefully everyone has recovered from what was an outstanding weekend! The heyNIgh residential, the largest Northern Ireland LGBT youth residential so far, was a complete success! I think I can speak for everyone when I say, the content of the residential, and the craic, was top-notch! There’s plenty of photos floating about, I’ll get loads [… Read More]

Hey everybody! After longer than originally hoped, the new website is now active! I encourage everybody to browse it and comment on the forums, it still needs tweaked and filled out in a few places, so please, I really want the help! If you have an idea or suggestion, no matter how big or small, [… Read More]

Gay & Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland, infamously known as GLYNI (pron. glin-E), is an organisation for young people in Northern Ireland who identify as being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or non-heterosexual. We have existed since 1998, and continue to run a popular youth group every Monday night in Belfast City Centre. We also provide befriending and [… Read More]

GLYNI has gone back to its youth (no pun intended) and re-opened its old drop-in service. It is being piloted at the moment with GLYNI members (as well as those undergoing our Outreach Training) to supplement our Monday night group-time which has been dedicated to training for the month of March. During this time, the [… Read More]

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 [… Read More]