Complete confidentiality is assured to everyone attending meetings.

The next Manchester Parents Group Support Meeting is on

Saturday 3rd march 2012 - 2pm to 4pm

Please contact us if you need help before then.

Our meeting place is: The Taurus Bar, Canal street, Manchester.

Meetings are held in a private room.

See Meetings and Events for more details and dates of forthcoming meetings.

Many thanks to Polly and Iain of Taurus bar for the use of their room and their continued support and promotion of our group.

Very little has been written about what actually happens at so called reparative therapy. Chaim Leven enrolled on a Jewish scheme to turn himself straight, but the therapy failed .

Read Chaim's story.

Ben Cohen, Pink News founder, has recorded a video "It Gets Better" about being gay and Jewish, and condeming gay cures.

Watch Ben's video here.

Amal Fashnu, whose Uncle Justin was the first openly gay footballer in the UK, questioned people from the game, on why no British gay footballer has come out since.

Justin Fashnu hanged himself in 1998 after struggling for years with homophobic abuse.

A spokesperson for The Justin Campaign, which was set up by the footballer's niece in February 2010, to combat homophobia in sport, said,

"Football has a long way to go in properly dealing with the problems of homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in sport. However, the more the subject is discussed, and is brought out  of the closet, the easier it will be to adress the problem"

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans History Month takes place every year in February. It is a chance for us to celebrate the lives and achievements of LGBT people throughout history.

For details of events taking place throughout the UK, please see the Lesbian and Gay History Month website

To celebrate Peter Tatchell's 60th birthday today, and 45 years of service to the gay community through his human rights campaigning, QX Magazine posted a timeline of the life of this remarkable man

Happy birthday Peter, and many thanks from all at Manchester Parents Group.

NHS North West and Manchester's Lesbian and Gay Foundation are to launch a new quality benchmark for gay patients.

The scheme will encourage GP's across the UK to ensure their lesbian, gay and bisexual patients are treated fairly. and that their provision is inclusive of LGB people and their needs.

Lady Gaga will officially launch her anti gay bullying charity, The Born This Way Foundation, next month.

Her mother said," My daughter's charity was born out of a passion to create a better world, where people are kinder and nicer to one another, and are accepted for who they are, regardless of how different they may be"

Holocaust Memorial Day provides us with an opportunity to pay tribute to all those from the LGBT community who suffered under the Nazi persecution, and were victims of Nazi prejudice.

The theme for 2012 asks us to think about the rights, responsibilities and duty we all have to speak up, when we see or hear anything which we believe to be wrong. It challenges us to learn about what happens when we don't speak out, and what happens when we use our voice.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"
Desmond Tutu.

 Find out more about Holocaust Memorial Day and the 2012 theme 

Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday that allowing equal marriage rights could threaten the future of humanity.

The Pontiff said, "Pride of place goes to family, based on the marriage of a woman and a man"

To quote Peter Tatchell - "Far from weakening or undermining marriage, many same sex couples seem hell bent on shoring up an institution, that is for many heterosexuals, failing, discredited and irrelevant"