{"id":1437,"date":"2008-10-03T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:06","slug":"lesbian-information-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"LESBIAN INFORMATION SERVICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Challenging Homophobia <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linked with <a href=\"http:\/\/word.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/2473\">Suzanne Pharr &#8211; USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesbianinformationservice.org\/history.htm\">History<\/a>: Lesbian Information Service is an independent organisation. Set up in July 1987 by Jan Bridget (Foster) and Sandra Lucille, it has provided one-to-one support to lesbians of all ages and backgrounds throughout Britain via face-to-face work, support groups, helplines, publications, newsletter, pen-pal schemes, telephone and correspondence counselling, residentials, campaigns, training, projects &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesbianinformationservice.org\/history.htm\">(full long list of links<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>This website seems have been updated until 2004. But some articles and researches are still available.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesbianinformationservice.org\/news.htm\">News<\/a> (updated 20.1.04);<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesbianinformationservice.org\/pubs.htm\">publications<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesbianinformationservice.org\/battabs.htm\">Battering<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesbianinformationservice.org\/research.htm\">research<\/a>;<br \/>\nAddress: P.O. Box 8, Todmorden, Lancashire, OL14 5TZ;<br \/>\nContact: Tel: 01706.817235<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesbianinformationservice.org\/\">Homepage<\/a>: Established in 1987, Lesbian Information Service:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>has developed a unique training programme which looks at Homophobia Awareness from a Multi-Oppression Perspective and provided training to hundreds of service providers (youth, mental health, health, alcohol, social work, education, housing, clergy, police, voluntary organisations)<\/li>\n<li>develops publications to back-up its work in helping service providers, researchers and individuals<\/li>\n<li>probably has one of the best research libraries in Britain on lesbian and gay health and social issues (especially lesbian and gay youth, alcohol, mental health)<\/li>\n<li>has conducted research around young lesbians and gays, alcohol, lesbians and housing<\/li>\n<li>has supported thousands of lesbians, in particular young lesbians and lesbians who are coming out; LIS can no longer offer a support service to individual lesbians<\/li>\n<li>has provided information and support to thousands of service providers (youth, mental health, health, education, social services, counselling and advice), researchers and journalists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesbianinformationservice.org\/\">full text<\/a> Homepage).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenging Homophobia Linked with Suzanne Pharr &#8211; USA. History: Lesbian Information Service is an independent organisation. Set up in July 1987 by Jan Bridget (Foster) and Sandra Lucille, it has provided one-to-one support to lesbians of all ages and backgrounds throughout Britain via face-to-face work, support groups, helplines, publications, newsletter, pen-pal schemes, telephone and correspondence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1437\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;LESBIAN INFORMATION SERVICE&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15515,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/15515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}