February: LGBTQ+ History Month

30 Jan February: LGBTQ+ History Month

LGBTQ+ support for Hammersmith’s Employees 

February marks LGBTQ+ History Month and celebrates the history of gay, bisexual, and transgender rights. At Hammersmith BID, we support the LGBTQ+ community, recognising that employees thrive if they can bring their authentic selves to work.

To mark LGBTQ+ History Month 2023, we have collated some resources offering support for the LGBTQ+ community, and allies who want to gain insight into how they can best offer support.

RESOURCES 

• Charity:
  • • Stonewall: Stonewall is the leading LGBTQ+ charity in Europe and supports the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and Stonewall’s best practices, tool-kits, and resources, and are designed to help empower senior leaders and support the creation of LGBTQ+ inclusive workplaces.
    • Global Human Rights: The Fund for Global Human Rights is a charity fighting for LGBTQ+ equality in a world where being open and out often leads to discrimination, harassment, or worse. The fund fights for equality by ensuring access to health and safety, promoting legal protections, championing economic empowerment, building community support, and providing free legal aid.

• Definitions:
  • • Stonewall Glossary: Stonewall has provided a list of LGBTQ+ terms to accommodate informed discussions that make LGBTQ+ people feel as comfortable as possible.

• Apps: 
  • • Zoteria: Zoteria is designed to support the LGBTQ+ community and tackle hate crimes. The app provides a platform for reporting LGBTQ+ hate crimes to create a precise and detailed picture of what is happening. Gaining a global and local perspective can ultimately help support social and policy change. If you see or experience an anti-LGBTQ+ hate incident, flag it with Zoteria.

• Media: 
  • • Gay Times: Gay Times is the World’s Leading LGBTQ+ Media Company, and the Gay Times Group specialises in delivering industry-leading strategy, brand content, and experiential production that directly connects with LGBTQ+ and global audiences.

• Mental Health Support:
  • • MindOut: MindOut is an LGBTQ+ mental health service run by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people and seeks to improve the mental health and well-being of the community.
    • Rainbow Mind: Rainbow Mind is an LGBTQ+ mental health service led and staffed by LGBTQ+ people.
    • Mind LGBTQ+ Mental Health support: Mind provides information about mental health support for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer, or questioning.

• Support:
  • • Hate Crime: Crimes committed against someone because of their disability, gender or gender identity, race, religion, belief, or sexual orientation are hate crimes and should be reported to the police. Follow the link here to report Hate Crimes in Hammersmith.