For different reasons, many sexually active people don’t want to know whether they are HIV positive or not. They don’t want to even think about it. But if you do know what your status is, one way or the other, you will be making a positive difference to your life. Here’s why…

2020 has drastically altered our daily lives and as an activist it’s easy to put your mental health and wellbeing on the back burner, while you get on with other hugely pressing priorities. On top of this, LGBTI activists can suffer from particular mental health stresses that stream from discrimination, LGBTIphobia, and the uphill battle that working to secure our rights and equality can be. To mark World Mental Health Day, this blog brings you some tools to help you cope with challenges that come your way.

“Sometimes it is necessary to speak clearly from a very personal or intimate point of view,” says intersex activist Ins A Kromminga, co-founder of OII Europe and illustrator of ‘#MyIntersexStory: Personal accounts by intersex people living in Europe’. The 15 beautifully illustrated, but often harrowing stories in this groundbreaking publication speak “a clear and frank language of things that are often hard to speak about”.

‘Nobody Left Outside’ a collective of organisations committed to working together to find solutions to improve access to healthcare for the communities we all represent, […]

Health4LGBTI is an EU funded pilot project aiming at reducing health inequalities experienced by LGBTI people. It has been implemented between March 2016 and March […]

For the last two years, ILGA-Europe have been working on ‘health4lgbti’, a project exploring the healthcare needs and challenges faced by LGBTI people. Sophie Aujean, our […]

As part of our Come Out for Mental Health campaign, we spoke to our friends at Mental Health Europe about some of the challenges that LGBTI people […]

Thank you to TENI (Ireland) for sharing your good practices with us as part of the Come Out for Mental Health campaign! “Our work on mental health […]

Thank you to Gayten-LGBT (Serbia) for sharing your good practices with us as part of the Come Out for Mental Health campaign!

Thank you to Seta (Finland) for sharing your good practices with us as part of the Come Out for Mental Health campaign! Eveliina, a Finnish cross-dressing senior, […]

ILGA-Europe want to come out for mental health. #ComeOut4MentalHealth There are a lot of reports, statistics and analysis out there on the mental health of LGBTI people… […]