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Phone and website contacts:
Places that can help you if you experience distressed:
Your GP can help you:
Ring the surgery for an out of hours telephone number
Samaritans:
24 hour helpline support for those experiencing distress, despair and/or suicidal feelings
LGBT Foundation: &#; 3 30 30 30 or (10ampm, daily)
Helpline run by Lesbian and gay health charity. Email: [email&#;protected]
LifeSIGNS &#; Self-Injury Guidance & Network Support: Ideas and guidance for anyone affected by self-injury. Small charity run by LGB people with personal experience of self-injury. Anonymous Support Forum, clear fact-sheets, and active across social networks e.g. @LifeSIGNS
Childline:
Free, hour helpline for children and young people in trouble or danger. If the lines are busy, please keep trying
Allsorts: &#; 72 12 11Free helpline, 10am-5pm, Monday – Friday
Allsorts is charity which supports young people under 26 who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or unsure (LGBTQU) of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity
Pace Youth: &#;
Free and confidential coun
We support LGBT+ people who verb experienced abuse and violence
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All of our support volunteers identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ family, and are here to serve the entire community, 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
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Weekly Youth Chatrooms
Moderate
1-on-1 Online Peer Support Chat
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
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There can be times when using the phone to locate support might not feel protected or comfortable.
We provide a confidential space online. Here you can unite with a trained LGBTQIA+ peer support volunteer to have a web-based conversation. We discuss many different issues and concerns including, but not limited to, coming out issues, gender and/or sexuality identities, relationship concerns, bullying, workplace issues, HIV/AIDS anxiety, safer-sex information, suicide, and much more.
Along with peer support, listening, and affirmation, our volunteers can access the largest LGBTQIA+ resource database of its kind in the world () to provide additional resources.
Hotline calls can be answered from the United States and Canada, while online chats are free from anywhere in the world. As long as you verb access to our website and are able to have a conversation in English, we a