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A reflection on the recent High Court ruling and what its implications might be for homelessness services going forwards.

For LGBTQ+ History month, we highlight the ongoing challenges that LGBTQ+ individuals experiencing homelessness face, and share our resources for making services more inclusive.

During pride month, we want to share our existing resources to support homelessness services in providing inclusive services, and tailored support to the LGBTQI+ community.

Four resources aim to support homelessness staff to take action on EDI.

LGBTQIA+ History Month allows time for reflection. It is clear that people from these communities are more likely to find themselves homeless. But do homeless services know how best to support them?

Sharing your identity as someone who is LGBTQIA+ can be a positive experience but can also be scary and lead to trauma and homelessness. This blog explains how homelessness staff can ensure services are supportive.

During Pride month, we at Homeless Link want to focus on acceptance, equality and celebrating the work of LGBTQIA+ people, education in LGBTQIA+ history and raising awareness of issues affecting the LGBTQIA+ community.

This day marks a time to celebrate trans and non-binary people, to raise awareness of the discrimination faced by the community and an opportunity for allies to learn more about how they can support. We spoke to akt about their Trans Pathway Project.

Trans awareness week allows for a time of reflection, celebration and to come together to raise awareness and highlight the issues faced by trans, non-binary and gender diverse people. This week gives us an opportunity to give a platform to the lives of trans people and learn about what it means to be trans.

Lee Buss Blair, a Director of Riverside Housing, talks about his own personal experience of being gay in the military and how this can lead to veterans facing homelessness. He encourages members and their clients to respond to a new government inquiry.

Bex Shorunke, Senior Media Officer at akt writes about the importance of recognising the diversity of young people experiencing homelessness and the specific experiences of young people from LGBTQ+ groups found in their new research.

New guidance published on how services can better support young trans people in homelessness settings.

Today, we launch 'Commitment to Change', our Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy.

To mark LGBTQI+ history month, CEO at Micro Rainbow Sebastian Rocca writes about why some LGBTQI+ non-UK nationals experience homeless and the best way to provide people with meaningful support.

In the first of a new series shining a spotlight on Homeless Link’s members, we explore how two organisations are engaging young trans people who experience homelessness.

As part of LGBTQ+ history month, Harry Jefferson from Stonewall Housing, writes about the needs of older adults and how services can better support them.