Homophobia is the cause of the suffering of many young homosexuals, that suffering can sometimes lead to suicide.

In order to change social representations of homosexuality and raise awareness of the serious consequences that may homophobia, Inpes and the Ministry of Health, Youth, Sports and Associations organize competitions scenarios: Young and gay in the eyes of others. This operation is part of a broader context where the fight against homophobia was included for the first time in the circular reentry of Education.

The contest, launched yesterday by Madam Minister Roselyne Bachelot, is open to people aged 16 to 30 years and aims to allow the expression of young people who often can not live their situation in silence and isolation.

Participants have until Dec. 2 to file their scenarios on the site www.leregarddesautres.fr

The 4 synopsis winners, selected by a jury chaired by André Téchiné, will be made as short films and broadcast in 2009 on channels Canal .

Competition promotional placard: Download (54)

The 28a:

It is a Gay and Lesbian Center Bi and Transgender (CGLBT) where you are welcomed and listened without trial of any value in anonymity by a person trained (The Gagli adheres to the principles and values of the Charter of LGBT Centers). You can find information on the activities of the association, be oriented to be helped in a process known as a resource to learn ...

A single address:

"On 28 bis" - 28 bis rue Sainte Anne in Orleans
Tuesday to Saturday from 14 to 18.
every Friday from 18h to 20h: one (e) volunteer welcomes you with a smile and is listening to you.

And always by phone 02 36 47 60 88 or 06 78 33 68 04

Warning: The permanence at the Maison des associations no longer exists.

Wellness - Home Listening
To take stock of his sexual identity and / or preferences.
You are a parent and you wonder about homosexuality in your child?
You are a victim of homophobia at work in your personal life and you do not know how you want to be supported by an association in your steps?
You feel alone, isolated, one would say that you do not, a desire to learn more about the activities, simply speak?

Screenings AIDS, STIs, hepatitis
The Gagli, in partnership with the Information Center Screening and Diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Infections of the CHR Orleans (CIDDIST) offers screenings STI AIDS and hepatitis men and women who want to know after taking a risk. May be easier than the hospital or at his doctor, alone or together, you'll be greeted with complete confidentiality "28 bis" in the city center. [All dates]

Women's health with the MFPF
The French Movement for Family Planning (MFPF) will contribute its know-how to deal with women who love women issues relating to health and well-being. Contraception, fulfillment in life sexual and emotional desires of children and accompanying violence in the lesbian couple, prevention of breast cancer and cervical cancer, prevention of STIs ... [all dates]

Workshops health Lesbian Gay Bi and Trans
Workshops for knowledge, expertise and experience gay lesbian bi or trans.
We will listen shared more, meet local players around our practice. Laughter, good humor and seriousness in addressing our concerns of gay, bi, lesbians and transgender people. Workshops "And now you're beautiful / beautiful" workshop "safer sex", "Dredgers in safety at the scene of encounter," workshop "massage and relaxation," ... New appointments to not miss (gradually established - Program online later)

Debates and theme evenings
The "28 bis" will be time for an evening, the arena of ideas. Discuss and compare their views to those of others, defending his views, learn from each other. As an opportunity to better itself and accept a component of his life: his sexuality, his preference but not only.

The GAIES HOURS:

Action Group Gay and Lesbian Loiret, we have men and women trained in the home and listening to hold regular appetizers friendly (gay hours) to break isolation and promote trade.

What happens the 2nd Thursday of the month in a café in the city (reported on the program in partner institutions and the site of Gagli).

These initiatives are now recognized by SIDACTION and by different associations whose suicide prevention network of Loiret and its partners, SOS Homophobia.

Since 2006, the Regional Public Health (GRSP) allocates funds for public health fight against suicide. It finances the training, communication tools, the line listening.

Our partners and sponsors:

We thank the shop-UP Blanchet Dhuismes
for the loan of furniture and decoration.

We relayons the following information:

"At the initiative of Tony Ben LAHOUCINE, deputy mayor of Saint Jean de la Ruelle, a dozen people were gathered on July 2 last at the premises of the Federation of the Socialist Party of Loiret around Dominique Le Guen, national delegate Socialism homosexuality and regional groups to give birth to the group of HES Loiret, the seventh of its kind in France. The association of LGBT Socialists' has a dozen members in the department where the contribution of HES for the next congress of the PS in Reims collected signatures dix-Sept.

First on the agenda: ask all mayors left the department to accept the celebration of PACS in their town hall. "

Contact: 02 38 61 16 37

Here's what can be read in the first part of a series of eight leaflets on the health of homosexual men published by the CRIPS.

It is devoted to sexual orientation and coming out. He responds, for example, these issues quite legitimate and ideas just waiting to be dismantled to feel good, feel gay.

Are we obliged to say that you are gay?

Why the confusion between HIV and homosexuality?

I am gay, attracted but I am not crazy and frankly, I do not recognize myself in the image of consumer sexual sticking to the skin of gays.

A second part deals with the discovery of his homosexuality, whether adult and adolescent. The brochure lays the foundations for a personal reflection on the felt (strong emotions, friendship, physical attraction or love tested when the choices are occurring in adolescence) and the guilt, fear of talking to his wife , Fear not review her children ....

Future issues will focus on sexually transmitted infections, the announcement of HIV, medical advice to patients and doctors, drugs, relations between the couple and domestic violence.

More information: www.be-gay.fr

To be continued ....

Be gay brochure - Sexual orientation - coming out: Download (231)

As part of the week of vaccination from 21 to 27 April 2008, the association Sida Info Service, through its telephone and Internet hepatitis Info Service, with support and advice from the Institute for Prevention and Social Research (PRRO) and CitéGAY.fr, launches website to promote vaccination against hepatitis B to the attention of gay and bisexual men:

www.unvaccinpourlesgays.fr

Hepatitis B is transmitted most often through sexual contact via blood, semen and pre-seminal fluid. In France, 8, 18% of the general population, or nearly 5 million people, has anti-HBc showing contact with hepatitis B. The prevalence rate is 42, 48% in the homosexual population and 15, 64% for reporting against 7 bisexual, 68% for those who declare themselves heterosexual *.

If, for most people, will be spontaneous healing, chronic hepatitis B affects about 300 000 people. Even without symptoms or pain, chronic hepatitis B can lead to cirrhosis or even liver cancer. These complications are more likely in people already infected with HIV.
Despite the current recommendations, vaccination rates against hepatitis B among gay and bisexual men remain particularly weak in France as in most Western industrialized countries, stressed Hervé BAUDOIN, Coordinator of the Shares for Gay AIDS Info Service. Multi-sex partnerships, practices at risk, prevalence rates high and HBV co-infections are factors and data leading to particularly recommend vaccination against hepatitis B to homosexuals and bisexuals.

The beaming of the campaign, "A vaccine for gays?? ", Is assumed facing a public health goal, the fight against hepatitis B, far less within the homosexual community. Hervé BAUDOIN: When we speak of vaccine to the gay community, we usually associate the term to the discovery of a hypothetical vaccine against HIV while there is an offer vaccination, one against hepatitis B, which provides health benefit to all persons with homosexual men, and referred particularly concerned by this campaign.

Philippe Adams, Director of the Institute for Prevention and Social Research (PRRO) adds: While vaccination is a proven benefit in terms of health, some gays do not feel really concerned because they feel protected by virtue of practice the "safer sex" to live as a couple or even to be HIV-positive. Based on the results of research conducted with John de Wit, we produced this site which allows both to correct some false beliefs and thus encourage gays to "make a plan" to go get vaccinated.

Through information and advice to prevent simple to put into practice combined with an interactive quiz, this website aims to intervene on the psychological barriers, social and structural limit the use of vaccination.

An automated system designed by PRRO, first generates messages tailored to each specific situation of users. Participants are encouraged to complete the intervention by a dialogue with a speaker of the hepatitis Info Service using the Web Service Call Back **. This dialogue aims to remove barriers to immunization faced and to help transform an intention to vaccination in a concrete action plan: where, when and how to be vaccinated?

Vaccination against hepatitis B is feasible with his doctor or the Information Center Screening and Diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Infections (CIDIST) at CHR Orleans and it is supported by health insurance and your mutual.

At first, this action is carried out among gay and bisexual men of Ile-de-France in order to achieve empirical assessment before its possible extension to the entire territory. CitéGAY.fr is media broadcaster of the campaign and advised, with the PRRO, Sida Info Service for the design and implementation of this site. The intervention was made possible through funding from the regional grouping of Public Health Paris (GRSP idf) and technical support of the IDF DRASS led by Dr. Christine project Barbier.

The site is edited www.unvaccinpourlesgays.fr the attention of gay and bisexual men. It exists to the attention of the general population a toll-free number, anonymous and free, and a website to have all the answers to questions that the public or persons affected may be asked: 0 800 845 800 and www.hepatites Info service.org

* Estimated prevalence of HCV antibody and markers of hepatitis B among insured under the general scheme of metropolitan France, 2003-2004. InVS, CNAM, Cetaf

** The Web Call Back is a free service allowing the user who wants to be called by listening to a fixed or mobile phone of his choice in order to qualify for immediate maintenance. This service is already operating through the device AIDS Info Service with which 80% of reminders have requested towards laptops.

Under the heading "I hated":
See alongside Fabrice in the classroom.

Under the heading "J'me'm running": listen, see his smiling pranks in microphone Laurent Ruquier Christine Bravo or Michel Drucker.

Under the heading "I'm amazed":
Do not suspect so far this comic actress able to write poetry, tenderness an album for children (probably older children). It is addressed to them with courage, sincerity to address social issues not easy, sometimes taboo: the small hassles of daily life (I do not care for clafoutis), death (grandfather is the scimitar), loves ( My sister is in love), and especially the male and female homosexuality (Tonton is tata).

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To discover: Sophie Forte - Album young audience "MOM SAID THAT NOT BE"
(Niark PRODUCTIONS-VICTORY MUSIC / UNIVERSAL - February 2007)

Article LibéOrléans of 15-02-2008 on the Net

COMPANY. Action Group For Gay and Lesbian (Gagli) of Loiret, the community is not only branchouilles evenings. Here, the caricature of the crazy reckless has no place. In Gagli, reception, listening, prevention, the fight against homophobia are biased. Each month, an aperitif called "gay times" offers new members the possibility of a smooth integration. Thursday evening, between two kisses of Valentine, some twenty members met at the bar L'Atelier. Among them, Sophie, early fifties, came to meet the Gagli for the first time, seeking dialogue and humanity. Meeting.

They all seem happy to meet, glass in hand. Each newcomer is assailed with questions. Here, a passage from consideration, then a change of look. Everyone sits and the discussion quickly agrees. Denis Lefevre, president of the group, tends few poles: "You would be interested in an application to the board of directors?". Quietly sitting on a sofa after, Sophie observes and listens. It does still person. "I live alone in Orleans for two years," says the mother, returned from a first hetero experience. "After my separation and my new life choices, my friends have fled. I feel a bit alone ... ". His nearby bench trying to put her at ease. The sauce takes. Sophie moves to join a group of ancient explain the operation of Gagli "the program of activities is very easy to access. You can participate without being members. For their finances is not top, but for us it's too good ". Laughter, nice atmosphere.

In the group of boys, we welcome the arrival of Marianne, an "old old". She has just returned from a meeting shopping-informatics and occupies the land of the discussion with ease. Denis, he welcomes the news that just fell: Sidaction will finance a full-time position to carry out the tasks of prevention within the group. "We will be able to consider psychological counseling, legal and especially gynecological," stressed the president. "There is an over-mortality cancers of the cervix among lesbians. Many of them are based on the principle that there is no need to consult a gynecological, they do not have sex with men. We must develop a specific prevention. " However, the Gagli still has no permanent local home and listening. "We take the campaign for municipal call the main candidates on this issue," says Denis. "We have an appointment with sweat and Grouard next week. We will share their responses to our members. "

Discreet, almost shy, François, quarantine research friendliness. He comes to appointments of Gagli mainly for entertainment. Former militant invested in the field of prevention, it has now moved away. But still maintains a concerned eye on the life of the community: "I do not understand that we qualified people only by their sexual orientation. It is absurd that we fight for it. Ancient Greece was far more tolerant. "

Here, intolerance, you know. Having accompanied a young gay couple who had been beaten at a bus stop (Liberation of 21 April 2006), the Gagli was recently positioned against holding about gay elected by a Treviso (Italy), twin city with Orleans (Libération.fr of 20 August 2007).

Mr. Gd (photo: flickr.com / philippeleroyer)

> Contacts: website Gagli

The MJC to organize an evening Olivet videos on homosexuality & cinema with "The Celluloid Closet" documentary recounts how was circumvented censorship in Hollywood, followed by the short film "Scorpio Rising".

Thursday 05 April at 20:30
MJC Olivet of "Moulin de la Steam"
127 rue Marcel Belot 45160 Olivet

Free Admission