LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.^[4] Activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.

Information on Hate Crime.

 

http://www.safespacesussex.org.uk/pages/Hate+crime

Brighton and Hove LGBTQ+ Switchboard was founded in 1975 and has been providing services to the LGBTQ+ community in Brighton and beyond ever since. Originally operating as a helpline Switchboard has expanded over the years to include a face-to-face counseling service and to provide diversity, awareness and LGBTQ+ affirmative practice training to local organisations..

Recent Website Outage

We are very sorry the site has been unavailable for the last few weeks.

This was due to a hardware failure at our hosting company.

We have restored most of the site and there are still some items missing, which I hope to recover over the next week or so.

We have also taken the opportunity to upgrade the site to the latest version, which includes some new features,

which we hope to implement over the same period.

There has been a major upgrade in our security, to prevent 'hacks' to the site.  This will help us to identify individuals / sites which

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