This year, Sahir, with funding from Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner’s Community Cashback Fund, delivered quarterly town hall events, where the LGBTQ+ community, and its allies, could come together and discuss important issues that affect them.

With a pilot focused on the LGBTQ+ community’s relationship with Merseyside Police, as well as Peter Tatchell’s ‘Apologise Now’ campaign, taking place in December 2023, the Queer Town Hall was able to grow and develop into something much wider.

You can read the report from our pilot event here: Queer Town Hall- PILOT Merseyside police

The first official LCR Queer Town Hall focused on ‘Pride in the Commnity’, providing a space for the community to talk about what they believe Pride is, what it means to them, and explored various ways it can be celebrated. With an opportunity for regional Pride organisers to engage with the community, it was definitely a thoroughly talked through event, which ultimately lead to the ‘You said, we did’ delivery, from Sahir, of curating 2024’s Access Pride.

You can ready the report from our ‘Pride in the Community’ event here: Queer Town Hall- PRIDE

We are currently working through all the commentary from our ‘LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing post COVID19’ Queer Town Hall, due to the sheer amount of feedback provided – only further demonstrating how important these events are to bring the community together and provide it a voice.

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