Brooks Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Bonsall Street, Manchester M15 6GX

A one day conference exploring how to meet the challenges faced by bisexual and lesbian asylum seekers in the UK.

We want to share our history and experiences through talks, workshops and discussions to encourage other organizations and groups to set up support across the country.

Keynote speaker:  Keelin McCarthy (Barrister, Lamb Building)

Workshops and short panel sessions led by LISG, ReachOut Leeds, No Going Back, UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG) that address questions such as:

• How to support lesbian and bisexual asylum seekers going through the asylum process?
• How to support lesbian and bisexual asylum seekers in detention?
• How to work together in campaigning?
• How to fundraise to support lesbian and bisexual asylum seekers?
• How to evidence sexuality in asylum cases?

Book your ticket via our Eventbrite page

There will be some entertainment after the conference and we will be going for drinks and dinner so please do stay on if you can.

Any queries, please email: lisg.conference@yahoo.co.uk

June 9, 2015

A day conference funded by the Edge Fund for all to attend on Thursday 9 April 2015 10.00am – 4.00pm

• To share our history and experiences through talks, workshops and activities
• To encourage other groups to be set up

At the accessible venue : Birley Building,  Manchester Metropolitan University, Bonsall Street, Manchester M15 6GX

For more information please visit our website: http://lesbianimmigrationsupportgroup.blogspot.co.uk/

Email lisg.manchester(at)yahoo.co.uk or call or text +44 (0) 7503 351922

We are a group of women in Greater Manchester who are lesbian and bisexual asylum seekers and refugees and their supporters. The group was set up in 2007 as an anti-deporta tion campaign and now supports women through the legal process, petitions for individual women to support their fight to stay in Britain, help with grants for women given refugee status, etc

Our aims are

• to provide a social network offering emotional support to lesbians and bisexual women currently applying for asylum and those refugees who have been gr anted leave to stay in the UK;
• to offer practical support and assistance to members with current asylum applications based on sexuality and to ensure that our members are treated equally and with dignity during the often inhuman asylum process.

We meet on a monthly basis at the Pankhurst Centre in Manchester and are involved in many events.

April 22, 2015