LGBTQ Social Support in SE
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What’s happening in South East London for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people? This list has been compiled by Susan Hailes on 23rd January 2019. If you have any amends or additions please email [email protected] ONE-OFF EVENTS * Queerama Storytelling workshop – free one-day workshop at Goldsmiths including talks from Filmmakers Campbell X and Daisy Asquith, BFI Archivist Simon McCallum, Historian Professor Lucy Robinson. Lunch provided. 11am-4pm at LG01 Prof Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW. Tickets available on Eventbrite. * Queer Clothes Swap – organised by Deptford Pride. Saturday 2nd February 2019 from 1pm until 5pm at Little Nan’s Bar (Grandad’s Shed), Arches 13-15, Deptford Market Yard, London SE8 4BX. Free event. Swap your fabulous frocks and jazzy jewellery, or just come for Mock/cocktails. Bring up to 10 items of anything you wish to donate. See https://www.outsavvy.com/event/2311/queer-clothes-swap-tickets for more information. * Liberty – part of Deptford Heritage Festival – play by Red Blouse Theatre about LGBTQ civil rights movement establishing itself in 1930s Britain. February 14th until 28th February 2019 at the Zion Baptist Chapel, New Cross Road. Tickets cost £15 (except on opening night when it is £25 due to the celebrity gala) and give free access to all other festival events except the History Tour Bus. Book tickets online www.kathduncan.com or via Festival Box Office: 020 3632 6196 * LGBTQI parent meet-up – Lewisham Maternity Voices Partnership are hosting a social for all local LGBTQI parents and their children (or soon-to-be-parents) at the Good Hope Café at The Place Ladywell, 261 Lewisham High Street, Lewisham SE13 6AY on Saturday 9th February 2019 from 11am until 1pm. Also a chance to meet the Head of Maternity at Lewisham Hospital. Free to attend. * Gentleman Jack – a theatre production by Arrows and Traps Theatre about the lesbian- interest diaries of Anne Lister currently showing at the Brockley Jack Theatre in Crofton Park. Running from 15th January 2019 until 16th February 2019. Tickets are £16 or £13 if you qualify for a concession. Box office: 0333 666 3366. Brockley Jack Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London SE4 2DH https://brockleyjack.co.uk/whats-on/theatre/ * Young LGBTQ People of Colour group – Lewisham LGBT Forum, Eastside Youth and Lewisham BME Network are partnering to set up a new LGBTQ youth group for young people of colour (BAME) LGBT people aged 16-25 in East and Southeast London. They are asking for expressions of interest and intend to set up a first meeting at the Stephen Lawrence Centre in February. Complete your expression of interest at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SS2E3VY * Polari Literary Salon featuring V.G. Lee – Friday 15th February 2019 from 7.30pm until 10.30pm at the Southbank Centre, Level 5 Function Room. VG Lee is releasing her new book Oh You Pretty Thing! Tickets £3.75 (concessions) to £5: https://bit.ly/2CXKLSY. Kenric Lesbian Social Group are intending to meet to see it and can be contacted via their Meetup page if you would like to accompany them. * Canary Wharf Winter Lights Festival walk – London Lesbians Afoot are meeting on Wednesday 23rd January from 6pm until 9pm at the Jubilee Plaza, outside Canary Wharf Tube to walk around the light-fest. It is about an hour’s walk and they will find a pub or restaurant afterwards for dinner/drinks. * My Beautiful Film and Disco – WeDoGoodDisco and The Broadway Theatre in Catford are screening My Beautiful Laundrette and But I’m A Cheerleader followed by a disco for LGBT History Month on Saturday 2nd February 2019 at 7.30pm. Tickets are £15.00 plus £1.50 in fees if booking online For more information see https://www.facebook.com/events/359791491238 or Twitter: @wedogooddisco or Instagram @wedogooddisco * The Way He Looks screening by Deptford Cinema – Deptford Cinema are screening The Way He Looks (2014) by Daniel Ribeiro, a film about gay teenagers. Tickets £6.00 (£4.50 concessions) at 7.30pm on Thursday 14th February 2019. Deptford Cinema is at 39 Deptford Broadway, London SE8 4PQ. For tickets and more info see www.deptfordcinema.org * OUTing the past – Greenwich Lesbian Group are attending the National Maritime Museum Lates on Saturday 9th February 2019 from 6pm until 9pm at the National Maritime Museum, Park Row, Greenwich – an evening of free talks about Queer youth at different points in history. Speakers include Clifford Williams, Peter Scott-Presland, Emily Jeffers, Laura Harmon with host Sculptor Eve Shepherd. * Meet and Mingle – London Lesbians and Queer Women are having a drinks and lunch meet and mingle at Mercato Metropolitano, 42 Newington Causeway, London Se1 6DR on Saturday 9th February 2019 from 12;30pm until 5.30pm. GROUPS/MEETINGS/EVENTS * Lewisham LGBTQI Book Club – monthly book reading group run by Lewisham LGBT Forum which encourages members to read books of LGBTQI interest, with no pressure to read a whole book a month. Regular visits and readings from LGBTQI authors and readings by what other members have enjoyed. Book themes encouraged but no set text. Meets on the last Monday of the month, at Lewisham Library, 199-201 Lewisham High Street, London SE13 6LG at 7pm-8.30pm. Next meeting Monday 28th January 2019. Twitter: @LGBTLewisham Email: [email protected] * Lewisham LGBT Forum – a community meeting (usually bi-monthly) where partners from agencies also attend so information on local LGBT events can be shared and jointly organised and feedback given to and from partnership agencies such as the police, NHS, Metro Charity on incidents which impact on LGBT residents. Follow on Twitter or email to find out when/where the next meeting is. Twitter: @LGBTLewisham or email: [email protected] http://LewishamLGBTForum.wordpress.com or search for Lewisham LGBT Forum on Facebook groups. * TAGS - London Transgender and Gender non-conforming swimming group - meet every Friday at 8pm at the Glassmill Leisure Centre in the café area (Glassmill is opposite Lewisham DLR/Train station). Pool used is a training pool which is made private through use of shutters. Changing rooms separate from main pool and a choice of masculine identified or feminine identified but users can choose which they would feel more comfortable in. Monthly ‘Significant Others’ swims for approved friends/guests of regular swimmers. Cost is £3.65 to swim. http://on.fb.me/1QFo6cs or http://tagswim.co.uk/ (swimming lessons are available at their sister-group which meets in Swiss Cottage – see their Facebook page for details). * Quaggy Pride Project – LGBTQ Young People’s Discussion Group. A support group for LGBTQ young people aged 14-18. A non-judgmental space where sexual orientation and gender identity can be freely expressed, whilst the issues facing our community can be explored. Every Friday 4pm to 5.30pm at The Holy Trinity Centre, Bennett Grove, Lewisham SE13 7RF. Tel: 020 8465 9785. Free to attend. * METRO Live, Shine, Snap, Bridge, Star and Spark - free and confidential youth groups and service for LGBTQ young people aged 16-25 in Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark. Meet weekly in boroughs they represent – please contact for more specific location info. Socials, activities and trips - for more information please contact [email protected] or T02083055004. www.metrocharity.org.uk * Zest - LGBTQ youth group for under 16s from Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich or Lewisham - meet weekly from 4.30pm to 6.30pm (meeting currently in Bexleyheath). Social, activities and trips. Contact [email protected] or T02083055004. www.metrocharity.org.uk * METRO Trans Youth Support – Trans Youth Support Worker and monthly trans youth drop-in held once a month on the last Wednesday of the month in Vauxhall. Contact [email protected] for more information or call 02083055004. www.metrocharity.org.uk * LGBT Mental Health Advocacy Service and social drop-in – weekly drop-in run by Metro Charity where people can socialise, speak to advocates, seek support or discuss mental health issues and gain help accessing services. Monthly programme of events and activities. Every Thursday 12.30pm until 3.30pm at METRO Woolwich, 1st Floor Equitable House, 7 General Gordon Square, London SE18 6FH. Next social drop-in will resume on 10th January 2019. Email: [email protected] or 020 8305 5009 * London Gay and Lesbian Friends Meetup meet every Monday at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown pub in Greenwich on Crooms Hill SE10 8ER from 1400 until 1600. http://meetu.ps/c/3sZz4/hY1gn/a * Opening Doors London Pub Club – monthly social group for older LGBT+ people meeting in an LGBT pub in Greenwich, 7pm until late on the third Thursday of every month at Ye Olde Rose & Crown (Greenwich), 1 Crooms Hill, London SE10 8ER. For more information contact ODL on 020 7239 0400 or visit www.openingdoorslondon.org.uk * Fifty Plus - social and support group on the last Tuesday of every month for LGBT people over the age of fifty. Email Norman on [email protected] or 07912514465 - usually meet from 2pm-4pm at Metro Woolwich, 1st Floor Equitable House, 7 General Gordon Square, Woolwich SE18 6FH. www.metrocharity.org.uk * Charlton Invicta – amateur LGBTQ inclusive/friendly men’s football team who are in current partnership with Charlton Athletic and who are FA affiliated. Train at Charlton Athletic Football grounds weekly. Twitter: @CharltonInvicta https://www.facebook.com/CharltonInvicta * Remnants Women’s Hockey Club - gay/bi women’s hockey club. Training on Monday evenings in Beckenham/Bellingham and play in Kent Women’s league on Saturdays from Sept to March, 7.30pm-9pm and training/friendly games the rest of the year.