What's new on the website?

You can hear an interview with some of those attending the Feb. 28th 2012 Celebration and awards evening by clicking HERE

There is a report on LGBT HIstory Month 2012 - along with a slide show of pictures - which you can see by clicking HERE

Nottinghamshire's Rainbow Heritage has collaborated with NHS Nottinghamshire to produce "In the Pink", a booklet for GPs and other health workers. It aims to highlight areas where LGBT people have been disadvantaged by the NHS and to set out guidelines for good practice which, we hope, will remedy this. To read it, click HERE The booklet includes guidance on the monitoring of sexual orientation - an expansion of some of the points raised can be read HERE

The Nottingham Map contains links to nearly 60 places used by LGBT people for social and support purposes.

Three documents relevant to older LGB people have been added. From Age UK there are "The whole of me" and "Planning for later life"; from Stonewall there is "LGB people in later life". To see all 3 click HERE. Our display on Section 28 can now be downloaded - click HERE

Our Nottinghamshire is a community histpry website which opened in October 2011. It already has several contributions from Nottinghamshire's Rainbow Heritage. The website is at http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/index.aspx. Go to Places, then to Nottingham City.

There's a slideshow of pics from this year's Nottinghamshire Pride. Click HERE.

A stunning reply to the Daily Mail-type anti-gay school of journalism has been written by Johann Hari. Click HERE to read.

Lots of the materials we and others have produced can be downloaded from the website. Most are in the NRH's Resources section. The latest are "Prevention and response to identity-based bullying", "Living my life" (information for trans people), "Transgender - the facts", "Different Families - children with lesbian and gay parents" and "Supporting young LGB people" and a leaflet describing Tony Bilton's Seven Deadly (Gay) Sins tour ... for the latter, click HERE

Our bars, clubs section has, until now, lacked a photo of the Roebuck pub (long demolished). You can now see a photo in the bars.clubs and venues page 2.

There are a few selected YouTube videos to be seen HERE

TRAINING, PRESENTATIONS ETC

NRH's resources have been fundamental to 10 training sessions for the whole of the staff of Nottinghamshire Connexions; for a workshop on homophobic bullying for Nottingham schools; for an LGB Awareness session for Nottingham CVS and a workshop on Homophobia for East Midlands Open University.

NRH's "Proud to be Gay" LGB Awareness training sessions in November 2009 were oversubscribed and received excellent evaluations, so we did an extra session this May and a further session in November 2010. The latest session is on November 16th 2011 - that too is oversubscribed.

We have also been involved in providing training/presentations for Rushcliffe Council, Newark and Sherwood Council, Waterloo Housing, Bright Ideas, Let's Build and Trent University, Centre Place ...