Southern Gay Men's Health Project Resources List

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Coming Out
This leaflet gives information on:

• Coming Out
• Telling Someone
• Who To Tell
• Bullying/Homophobia
• The Law
• Sexual Health

This piece of literature is not just 'gay' orientated - it's for people who might be gay, bisexual, curious or not sure. No naked images ensure that it can be placed in youth clubs, community centres etc. without causing offence.

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Training & Workshops
This pamphlet, which folds out into A3 size, gives information on all workshops (13 in total) that can be delivered by the project:

• Developing A User-Friendly/Equality Based Service
• Holistic Health Promotion
• Training for Youth, Community, and Social Workers
• One In the Family
• Combating/Challenging Homophobia
• Addictions
• Personal Development Courses
• And many more

There is also a section on the importance of "Equality and Training".

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What Has Hepatitis B got to do with me?
This health information leaflet, which has areas to include your own organisations details on it, gives the reader the stats and information around the area of hepatitis B.

• What is hepatitis?
• How to get vaccinated.
• Info on the vaccination.

This publication also comes in an A3 poster, again, with an area to include your own organisation's details on it. Both leaflets have being requested by most gay health projects in Ireland and the UK.

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Hepatitis B ALERT Card!
A wallet size card with the bulleted facts about the hepatitis B virus and vaccination. Great for brief interventions, club/pub outreaches.

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IT'S HOMOPHOBIA THAT'S QUEER
This A2 poster has being seen across the country in Garda stations, doctor's surgeries, and has been framed in the HQ of The Equality Authority. It highlights the issue of homophobia with a striking heading and text. The absence of images makes this publication suitable for all locations (community centres, schools;,etc.)

Irish AIDS Day 2003 Posters For Irish AIDS Day 2003, are a series of posters designed and distributed by us to gay bars and the 'club' in Cork. We had spent quite some time coming up with messages and choosing images. We were conscious that many gay publications had images of hairless, toned, young gay men, so energy was put into obtaining and using images that were not just the 'normal' drop-dead gorgeous hunks. There was a huge response to these posters as they were something different "eye-catchin", "could see myself in the posters", "not all body beautiful" .

These posters were requested by other organisations across the gay community and other sexual health organisations. Click on irishaidsday for the article that was submitted to GayCork.com on Irish AIDS day 2003.

Positive Sex Messages
After the success of the Irish AIDS day posters, we decided to take a similar approach to another issue - sex. Not the usual STI doom and gloom. We felt that it was time to give affirmative messages about sex. So we set about to come up with messages and images to give gay men upbeat messages about sex, and about the different types of sex, and different types of 'types': chickens, bears, leather, lace etc.

There was an enormous reaction to these posters (not all positive - this is not taken negatively, as the posters were actually seen and got a reaction). The positive feedback was mainly from older, 'bearish' men, who thought it erotic to see 'their' types used in gay material and it also make the younger 'scene queens' realise that there was more to the gay scene than just them. We didn't only use real images. In this particular campaign we used cartoon images of chickens and bears to get the message across of the assorted types of gay men and fetishes.