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Dear Friends,
Holidays
The brilliant May weather made us all think of holidays, of relaxing, of travelling to new places and meeting new friends. Keep a nice place in your suitcase not only for the latest swimsuit, protective sun cream, books that you did not find the time to read, music you will finally be able to listen to……. but also for a nice selection of your favourite condoms/femidoms, lube and your preferred flavour of dams. You can order condoms from THT and we will post them to you – completely free! Or you can call in to our centre in Inverness and make your own “pick-and-mix” selection. Make it a really nice holiday with only happy memories, and no unwanted souvenirs!!
Parenting
Some important legal news! On 19th May, single women and lesbian couples won landmark parental rights as MPs voted to remove the requirement that fertility clinics consider a child’s need for a father. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will replace the rule with a “need for supportive parenting”. The decision means that the legislation will grant the most significant extension to homosexual family rights since gay adoption was sanctioned. It will stop fertility clinics turning away lesbians and single women on the grounds that their children will not have a father or male role model.
Music festivals
The Sexual Health Marquee, a collaboration between NHS Highland, Brook and THT, will be present at the following music festivals this year: Rock Ness (7-8 June), Belladrum (8-9 August) and Connect (30-31 August). Please feel free to come and say hello, to browse through the brochures and to pick up condoms, femidoms, lube and dams. If you would like to volunteer for any of these events, then please get in touch with me. You are very welcome.
Enjoy, have a great month!
Agnes Boes
Health Promotion Specialist - Highland
Terrence Higgins Trust Scotland
Highland Programme June 2008
Social gatherings
Wednesday 11 7-9pm at THT T group Evening around ‘style’ with specialist Gloria. A social evening for those who identify as Transgender – in all its variety
Thursday 12 6.30-9pm Thurso LGBT CAITHNESS social group. Community Learning
and Leisure Office, Princess Street, Thurso. All lgbt people welcome.
Contact Jon on 07749 517826 or Rob on 07511 199066 for more information.
Monday 16 12-2pm at THT LGBT lunch drop-in
Come and have your lunch at THT with your friends or meet some new ones. Browse through the brochures, ask us questions. Tea, coffee and soup provided by THT
Wednesday 18 6-8pm at THT HepC positive Support Group
A group to meet other people who are HepC+, whether on treatment or not.
Tuesday 24 6.30-8.30pm at THT Movie: ‘Aimee and Jaguar’. Come and watch this movie together with friends.
Wednesday 25 6-8pm at THT HIV positive support group.
Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lgbtnorthscotland and join the online community for LGBT people in the North of Scotland
You can also find this info. and more on our blog http://thtscotland-highlandservices.blogspot.com/
Sexual Health
Free, anonymous and confidential testing
By appointment: Every Tuesday from 5-7pm at THT
Drop-in: Every weekday from Monday to Friday from 1.30pm-4pm at THT
Needle exchange: Every weekday from Monday to Friday from 1.30pm-4pm at THT
Drop-in for sex workers: Monday 2 and Monday 23 June from 12noon-2pm at THT
THT: Terrence Higgins Trust Scotland, 34 Waterloo Place, Inverness IV1 1NB Tel: 01463 711 585
Tuesday 24 June 2008 6.30pmAimee and Jaguar
Nominated for a Golden Globe and German’s offical submission for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, Max Farberbock’s Aimee & Jaguar is the tender accont of a forbidden love affair set against the backdrop of wartime Germany.
In performances that garnered them Silver bears at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival, Julian Kohler (Lily Wust) and Maria Schrader (Felice Schragenheim) play the epynomous Aimee & Jaguar, an exampler of Nazi motherhood and a politically committed Jewess respecively who embark on a transgressive love affair that will ultimately shatter their lives.
Based on a true story and powerfully dramatised, it is an uplifting love story totally unlike any other.
