Developing Communities: Gay And Leasbian Issues And Local Development Draft Article

Developing Communities: Gay And Leasbian Issues And Local Development Draft Article

Community development

LGBTQ+ discrimination

AIDS (Disease)

HIV (Viruses)

Gay men

Lesbians

Draft of article by Kieran Rose for Annual Review of Community Workers Co-operative, dated October 1997 and entitled "Developing Communities: Gay and Lesbian Issues And Local Development". Page 2 is a Table of Contents. Page 3 is "Introduction" and "Poverty: Lesbian and Gay Men". Discusses the "surprisingly little progress and some resistance to including gay/lesbian issues with mainstream community development programmes," which seem to "have existed in parallel universes." Notes that "there is a need to develop a strategy for inclusion to combat lesbian/gay disadvantage". References a study that "shows that discrimination and prejudice result in lesbians and gay men being disadvantaged and excluded from full participation in society." Page 3 continues with discussing the report "Poverty: Lesbians and Gay Men; The Economic and Social Effects of Discrimination." Page 4 discusses "Community Development" and is continued on Page 5. Mentions "GLEN/Nexus study". Also discusses "Gay HIV Strategies" which is continued on Page 6. Mentions a needs/strategy analysis published in 1994 by the Department of Health entitled "HIV Prevention Strategies and the Gay Community: Phase One Report; A Baseline Study". Page 6 also covers "Lesbian Education and Awareness (LEA)". Continued on Page 7, 8 and ends on Page 9. Also discusses "Legal Progress". Continued on Page 10. Also discusses "Practice" and ends on eleventh page. Page 11 discusses "Barriers". Page 12 discusses "Accessibility" and "Recommendations". Continued on Page 13 and ends on Page 14. Page 15 is "Appendix One: Reference and Resources". Page 16, 17 and 18 is Appendix Two: Contacts.

Kieran Rose

Arthur Leahy Collection

1997-10

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