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Care Before Crisis

All of our support volunteers identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ family, and are here to serve the entire collective, by providing free & confidential peer-support, information, and local resources through national hotlines and online programs.

Hotline Hours:
Mon-Fri:
11 AM - 8 PM/pacific time
2 PM - 11 PM/eastern time

Sat:
9 AM - 2 PM/pacific time
Noon - 5 PM/eastern time

LGBT Online Peer Support Chat

Connect one-to-one through instant message (IM) with a peer support volunteer

Join Peer Chat

Weekly Youth Chatrooms

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Advice and Back for LGBT people

Need Help?

It’s significant you get the help and back you need.

If you need help and advice on any issue, the obeying organisations are experienced in dealing with your concerns. Some of these organisations also provide counselling advice.

Always remember, if you are ever in immediate threat you should always call

Equality and human rights issues

Equality Advisory and Sustain Service (England, Scotland, Wales) offer free, confidential advice and support if you feel you possess been discriminated against or if you feel your human rights have been breached.

Travel advice

applications travel advice specifically for LGB&T people travelling abroad. Click here for state or territory specific advice.

Revenge Porn

Revenge Porn Helpline provide free, confidential advice and support for all victims of revenge porn.

Hate crime

True Vision provide advice on hate crime, how to report it, and where to get support .

also provides counsel on how to report hate crime.

Trans health

NHS offers transsexual health advice and support.

The Tavistock

Mental health support if you're lesbian, gay, multi-attracted or trans (LGBTQ+)

Mental health problems such as depression or self-harm can affect any of us, but they're more usual among people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBTQ+).

This may be linked to LGBTQ+ people's experience of discrimination, homophobia or transphobia, bullying, social isolation, or rejection because of their sexuality.

Other things, such as their age, religion, where they stay, and their ethnicity can include extra complications to an already difficult situation.

How talking therapy can help

It might not be easy, but getting help with issues you're struggling to deal with on your own is one of the most important things you can do.

Talking with a therapist who's trained to operate with LGBTQ+ people may help with issues such as:

  • difficulty accepting your sexual orientation
  • coping with other people's reactions to your sexuality
  • feeling your body does not reflect your true gender (gender dysphoria)
  • transitioning
  • low self-esteem
  • self-harm
  • suicidal thoughts
  • depression
  • coping with bullying

    If you are lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual or trans, or you are questioning your sexuality, then there are a number of services, sources of support and activities for you as a Croydon resident.  

    Croydon PrideFest

    London’s second largest Pride Festival – which, now in its third year, has firmly become marked in south London’s LGBTQ+ calendar of events. For more information call on the Croydon pride website.

    LGBT Croydon

    This website is a portal for the various LGBT groups in and around Croydon.

    The Bridge Youth club

    Weekly Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual person and Transgender youth team ages 13 More information.

    Museum of Croydon

    Queer+ Croydon at the Museum of Croydon:

    Advice and information

    Switchboard - LGBT+ helpline

    Switchboard - LGBT+ helpline is an information, support and referral service for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people and anyone who needs to evaluate issues around their sexuality.

    GALOP

    GALOP is an LGBT+ anti-violence aid supporting lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer people who have experienced abhor crime, sexual violence o