Gay support services

We foster partnerships with an extensive range of mental health and community sector services, healthcare providers (including hospitals), early childhood learning process providers, primary and secondary schools, as well as local government child and family, youth, and aged care services and programs.

At Queerspace, we are dedicated to promoting LGBTIQA+ inclusion and celebrating the diversity of gender, age, race, faith, and abilities. Our Carlton location is constructed with inclusivity in consciousness, featuring all-gender bathrooms, ramps, an elevator, and reachable meeting rooms equipped with hearing loops. Additionally, explaining services can be arranged upon request at all of our sites.

We are honoured to house some of Victoria&#;s most prominent LGBTIQA+ community advocacy groups, such as Transgender Victoria and Inclusive Rainbow Voices, at our Queerspace headquarters located at Drummond Highway, Carlton. With multiple locations spread throughout Victoria, we strive to make Queerspace an accessible and welcoming space for all.

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Mental health problems such as depression or self-harm can alter any of us, but they're more common among people who are female homosexual, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBTQ+).

This may be linked to LGBTQ+ people's exposure of discrimination, homophobia or transphobia, bullying, social isolation, or rejection because of their sexuality.

Other things, such as their age, religion, where they live, and their ethnicity can include extra complications to an already complex situation.

How talking therapy can help

It might not be easy, but getting help with issues you're struggling to deal with on your retain is one of the most essential things you can do.

Talking with a therapist who's trained to work with LGBTQ+ people may help with issues such as:

• difficulty accepting your sexual orientation
• coping with other people's reactions to your sexuality
• feeling your body does not convey your true gender (gender dysphoria)
• transitioning
• low self-esteem
• self-harm
• suicidal thoughts
• depression
• coping with bullying
  

  We're more than

  just hotlines. Find

  support online too:

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  June - We are saddened by the brutal decision to end the operation of the LGBTQ+ youth specific services on   Please realize that our services and help are not affected.

  For nearly 30 years we have served the LGBTQ+ community and we're not going anywhere.  We are involved in growing and expanding services in the face of the current climate.

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  Care Before Crisis

  All of our support volunteers identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ family, and are here to serve the entire group, by providing free & confidential peer-support, information, and local resources through national hotlines and online programs.
  
  Hotline Hours:
  Mon-Fri:
  11 AM - 8 PM/pacific time
  2 PM - 11 PM/eastern time
  
  Sat:
  9 AM - 2 PM/pacific time
  Noon - 5 PM/eastern time

  LGBT Online Peer Support Chat

  Connect one-to-one through instant message (IM) with a peer support volunteer

  Join Peer Chat

  Weekly Youth Chatrooms

  Moderate

  We support LGBT+ people who have experienced abuse and violence

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  How can we help you today?

  Get help

  Our team has decades of experience in supporting LGBT+ people who are victims of domestic overuse, sexual violence, hate crime, so-called conversion therapies, honour-based abuse, forced marriage, and other forms of abuse.

  More ways to get help

  At some point in our lives, all of us experience some form of hate. We can doubt it, together.