making Scotland a place where
LGBTQ+young people CAN FLOURISH AND THRIVE
making Scotland
a place where
LGBTQ+ young people
CAN FLOURISH
AND THRIVE
We are Scotland’s national charity for LGBTQ+ young people, aged 13-25. We support young people in all aspects of their lives through the provision of amazing youth work, and we support them to use their voice to create change in equality and human rights.
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In late July, on the one day we had hot, sunny weather, some of the Borders Involved and Evolved young people headed down to Mauldsheugh Woods in Selkirk to find a big surprise…of picnic rugs, food, natural crafts, a whole lot of beauty all around, and several LGBTQ+ red squirrels scattered around the woods for them to find. They had a great adventure looking around the pond, the bird hide, amongst the trees, to find every one of our “Squirrel Club” mascots. What a perfect Pride Picnic.
Keith
- Scottish Borders
The Forth Valley young people took part in two mask making sessions to create their own masqueraded masks, either through a historic lens or a futuristic one of their creation.
The first session taught the young people about the history of Stirling Castle and the eccentric ball’s that were held on the grounds by various royals throughout history. With a special mention to Mary Queen of Scott’s who used to attend masquerade balls presenting male.
Lou
- Forth Valley
Digital Team on tour! We celebrated Bute Pride after several years hiatus, and we were blessed with a lovely sunny celebration! It was wonderful to see the support on show on the day, if you’ve never been to a smaller Pride before – you’re missing out!
Laura
- Isle of Bute
Our Stirling youth group took part in a drag themed comic strip workshop with their youth worker.
This session was split into the history of drag in Scotland and the wider world, coming off of international drag day.
The Stirling young people were them given three panels to either turn a drawing of themselves or a character of their choosing into a wonderful drag king/queen/in-between.
All this work took place in two hours, as you can see our Stirling lot are very artistically talented!
Lou
- Stirling
The Allsorts of Spectrum group had a visit from Comic Youth! During this session they crated these cool quick comics where they had a limited amount of time to draw in their square and then had to pass it on to the person next to them to do the next square! There were lots of twists and turns to the stories! Here’s some of the Comics created by the group.
Allsorts of Spectrum Group
- Dundee
A huge thank you to everyone who made the Pride Edinburgh Youth Space 2024 so amazing!!
We partnered with Canongate Youth, Lifelong Learning, Totally Sound and Reel Youth Media.
934 people visited us, for live music, delicious food from the Scran Academy, smoothies from the Scouts, stalls from The Junction, Crew, Chalmers, Healthy Respect, Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh Uni, (Un)seen, (Un)heard. There was arts and photography, facepainting and an incredible amount of love and joy!!
Pride month is over, but the joy from Edinburgh Pride is lingering with me. The past few months have been really hard – but being in the march with thousands of people supporting us, flanked on the pavements with so many more excited to see us? That’s healing, and gives me hope.
Nari
- Edinburgh
As part of LEAP sports Festival Fortnight the GLOW group in Perth got to visit Willowgate Activity Centre so our young people could try out Archery! Despite some rain we all had a great time!
GLOW Group
- Perth
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