Leeds is Yorkshire's largest city and has a vibrant gay scene. Whether you are looking for a social group, support or just to find out more details about the city's thriving gay scene this is the place to be. Below is a list of the services that Yorkshire MESMAC offers in Leeds. We also have links to local groups and information about the commercial gay scene in Leeds as well as details for the Centre for Sexual Health (Leeds GUM clinic).
The specific services in Leeds are listed below, for a list of services that are available at all of our offices please click here.
There are also rooms available for community groups to use free of charge, or for other organisations to hire. To view a copy of the room hire leaflet, please click here.
For more information about any of these groups please click on the name of the group:
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Leeds LGB Network
LGB people who are community activists, unpaid or paid workers, or representatives from LGB organisations/organisations who work with LGB people.
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Rainbow Family Network
Support group for LGB parents in West Yorkshire.
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The Gay scene in Leeds is the largest in Yorkshire, below are the main venues and club-nights in Leeds. Where venues have websites clicking on the name of the venue will open the website in a new window. Yorkshire MESMAC is not responsible for the content of any of the websites and does not recommend any of the venues or club-nights listed below and we provide these details purely for information.
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Religion
174 Lower Briggate, Leeds
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The New Penny
57 Call Lane, Leeds LS1 7BT Tel: 0113 243 8055
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Blayds
3 Blayds Yard, Leeds LS1 4AD Tel: 0113 244 5590
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Working with the Police
Yorkshire MESMAC works closely with the police in Leeds to help ensure that victims of homophobically motivated crimes are treated in a sensitive, supportive and appropriate way. We do this in a number of different ways; through training officers, briefing Police Community Support Officers and sitting on Lay panels, which review the investigations into Homophobic Hate Crime. The Hate Crime Co-ordinators from across Leeds regularly meet with Yorkshire MESMAC staff to help to continue to provide and improve services for the LGB community. If you wish to talk to a member of Yorkshire MESMAC staff about any problems or questions you may have about dealing with West Yorkshire Police in Leeds please contact the Leeds Office. [top]
Hate Incident Reporting
Yorkshire MESMAC in Leeds is also a Hate Incident Reporting Centre – this is a third party reporting scheme which gives the opportunity to report a crime without visiting or contacting the police directly. You can report anonymously so that you can make West Yorkshire Police aware of incidents, this enables West Yorkshire police to target resources into areas where there are problems.
There
are 100 Hate Incident Reporting Centres in the Leeds area and
they take reports for Homophobic and Racist Hate Crime, these
centres all display the logo on the left.
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Inclusive schools
The Inclusive Schools Project is a collaborative project between Yorkshire MESMAC and Education Leeds. Its aim is to get LGB issues onto the agenda of Leeds secondary schools. Briefing days and training for staff in how to implement the recommendations made in the Inclusive Schools document will be taking place over the next year. [top]
The Centre for Sexual Health is the name for the
GUM clinic in Leeds.
Click here
for details
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Yorkshire MESMAC in Leeds
P.O. Box 417
Leeds
LS1 5PN
Tel: 0113 244 4209
Fax: 0113 245 8233
Email: leeds@mesmac.co.uk
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