University of Strathclyde
Research on how the cost-of-living crisis hits LGBTQ+ people, published as an illustrated plain-language summary as well as a paper.
What this means for youBoth evidence and a model: research outputs made for the community that provided the data. Set this as your accessibility bar for research partnerships.
LGBT Foundation
LGBT Foundation's analysis of what ONS data show about LGBTQ+ inequality, and its call for action.
What this means for youCommunity-sector interpretation of the official data — pairs with the ONS releases when you make the case.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Terrence Higgins Trust's stocktake of HIV and STIs in England, documenting the unequal burden carried by particular communities.
What this means for youSexual-health inequality data to pair with mental-health evidence when making the whole-person case.
NAZ Project London
NAZ's peer-support group for Black and mixed-heritage GBTQ+ men of African and Caribbean heritage — building wellbeing and knowledge around sexual health.
What this means for youA Black and racialised-communities sexual-health organisation with decades of trust — a natural partner, not a competitor.
Qalliance
A directory of national mental-health resources, including LGBTQ+-specific services.
What this means for youThe referral map — where to signpost people while your own service is at capacity.
TransActual
TransActual's list of trans-inclusive organisations supporting trans people in the UK, with routes to searchable local directories (TranzWiki, Trans Unite).
What this means for youThe trans support map — part of building a service that meets people in full.
The Trevor Project
Over 9,600 LGBTQ+ young people aged 13–24 across the UK: 58% seriously considered suicide in the past year and 19% attempted it. Two-thirds reported discrimination due to sexual orientation (66%) or gender identity (68%). Young people in schools very accepting of LGBTQ+ people attempted suicide at less than half the rate of those in non-accepting schools — 13% against 35%.
What this means for youThe scale evidence for any work with Black queer young people — and proof that affirming, accepting spaces are protective, not just kind.
HIV i-Base
The plain-English guide to HIV PrEP: oral PrEP is now free from sexual health clinics across the UK and no longer restricted to people assessed as high risk; injectable PrEP (cabotegravir) was approved in England and Wales in October 2025 (and slightly earlier in Scotland) for about 1,000 people a year who cannot use oral PrEP.
What this means for youCurrent, accurate signposting for sexual health conversations in your community — including what to do when a clinic wrongly refuses PrEP.
DIVA, reporting UK Black Pride's survey with Stonewall
UK Black Pride's survey of over 1,400 LGBTQI Black people and people of colour: only 25% felt their local LGBTQI spaces were welcoming for Black people and people of colour; 82% did not feel represented by UK LGBTQI media; 53% said their mental wellbeing declined during lockdown; 61% avoided certain areas for fear of attack.
What this means for youThe community's own evidence that mainstream queer spaces don't hold us — the statistic behind any Black queer space, service or platform you're building.
Birmingham City Council
A local authority's own health profile of gay men and other men who have sex with men: Birmingham demographics down to neighbourhood level, mental health evidence (54% of gay men experienced anxiety; 46% of GBT men experienced depression against 13% of men in the general population), and a frank account of how census categories limit what can be known.
What this means for youProof a council can profile queer men's health properly — take it to your own local authority as the template, and use its gathered statistics meanwhile.
Queerwell
A UK charity established so that LGBTQIA+ people in most need, with the least resources, have early access to mental health support. In its first 12 months its research was adopted by the Department of Health and NHS England to inform their national review of LGBTQIA+ health inequalities.
What this means for youA potential partner and a proof point: community-founded mental health provision can shape national policy within a year.
BASHH/BHIVA (St George's, University of London)
A South London clinic review of 2,705 gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, of whom 24% were from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds: Black and Asian men were more than twice as likely to be recorded as bisexual, and men of Black ethnicity had 1.5 times the odds of a new STI diagnosis and 2.5 times the odds of an HIV diagnosis.
What this means for youUK clinical evidence that Black queer men sit at a compounding intersection in sexual health — the case for services designed for that intersection, not either identity alone.
NHS
The NHS's own guidance acknowledges that mental health problems such as depression and self-harm are more common among LGBTQ+ people, links this to discrimination, homophobia or transphobia, bullying, social isolation and rejection — and notes that ethnicity can 'add extra complications'. It lists national support organisations including LGBT Foundation, London Friend and Pink Therapy.
What this means for youMainstream signposting to give members alongside your own support — and an NHS acknowledgment of the discrimination-to-mental-health link, in the NHS's own words.
Expert report to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry (Prof Laia Bécares)
Expert evidence to the Covid-19 Inquiry: the pandemic hit LGBTQ+ people through disrupted access to sexual health and gender identity services, financial damage to the LGBTQ+ third sector, unsupportive housing, domestic abuse, isolation, and discrimination — each route carrying consequences for mental health, and compounded for those also facing racism.
What this means for youInquiry-grade evidence that crisis response fails LGBTQ+ communities when services and community organisations aren't protected — for pandemic-preparedness and resilience arguments in bids.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine (US)
A US population study quantifying the health inequities carried at the intersection of being Black and gender minority — the intersection of multiple marginalised populations, and one few studies focus on.
What this means for youWhere UK data is silent, this is the best available evidence of what the Black + trans intersection carries — and its rarity is itself the argument for funding UK research that counts this community.
Kalda
A self-guided mental wellbeing app built by queer clinicians, using LGBTQIA+ affirmative CBT and minority stress research — bite-sized video modules, mood tracking and clinician-designed check-ins based on PHQ-9 and GAD-7, the same scans therapists use, accessible immediately without a waiting list or judgment.
What this means for youA signposting option for members who can't or won't join an NHS waiting list — affirming support built for queer lives rather than adapted to them.
LGBT Foundation
The UK's leading LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing charity, marking its 50th anniversary, supported over 53,000 people in a year: a national helpline in its 50th year, 1,440 hours of counselling, the NHS adult trans healthcare partnership for Greater Manchester, and a Pride in Practice programme working with over 1,100 healthcare providers and having trained more than 25,000 professionals in affirming care.
What this means for youWhat LGBTQ+ community health infrastructure looks like at scale — a partner, a referral route, and a model for community organisations that want to change mainstream services rather than only fill their gaps.
Stonewall
YouGov research with 5,000 LGBT people across Britain: half (52%) said they experienced depression in the last year; one in eight aged 18–24 (13%) said they attempted to take their own life in that year; one in seven (14%) avoided treatment for fear of discrimination; one in eight (13%) experienced some form of unequal treatment from healthcare staff.
What this means for youStill the most-cited UK baseline for LGBT mental health inequality — the numbers commissioners already recognise, for the context section of any bid.
LGBT Foundation
Survey evidence on LGBTQ+ experiences at the GP: 56% said their GP met their needs as an LGBTQ+ person, down from 68% in 2018 — and only 50% of queer, trans and intersex people of colour said so, against 57% of white respondents. Patients who felt able to share their sexual orientation with their GP were far more likely to have their needs met (70% against 43%).
What this means for youEvidence that primary care is going backwards for LGBTQ+ patients and that people of colour feel it most — the case for culturally competent, affirming primary care work in your area.
Student Minds
UK research with current university students, recent graduates and members of University/ Students’ Union staff on the intersection of LGBTQ+ identity and mental health difficulty at university — covering community involvement, peer support, help-seeking attitudes and experiences of services, with recommendations supported by the Office for Students.
What this means for youFor work with Black queer students: the sector evidence on what LGBTQ+ students need from support services — and where universities fall short.
MindOut
A mental health service run by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people: advocacy, peer support groups and counselling in Sussex, plus an online chat service available nationally — with weekly sessions that aim to be staffed by volunteers of colour and by trans and non-binary volunteers.
What this means for youProof of concept for by-and-for mental health provision — and a national online service you can signpost members to today.
Yorkshire & Humber Public Health Network
Public health guidance on older LGBT+ people: gay and bisexual men are almost three times more likely to be single than heterosexual men, 41% of older LGB people live alone (against 28% of heterosexual peers), and far fewer see biological family weekly — though many build strong 'families of friends'. Generations now in their 60s to 90s lived through eras from the criminalisation of sex between men to Section 28.
What this means for youEvidence for work with Black queer elders — the isolation numbers, the history that shaped them, and the case for community as chosen family.
UK Black Pride
The world's largest celebration for LGBTQI+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern descent — an annual celebration during Pride month and activities throughout the year that promote and advocate for the spiritual, emotional and intellectual health and wellbeing of the communities it represents.
What this means for youCelebration as infrastructure: the reference point for arguing that Black queer joy, visibility and gathering are themselves wellbeing interventions.
Out with Prostate Cancer
A peer support group for gay and bisexual men, trans women and non-binary people navigating prostate cancer — mutual support, shared experience and practical information, whether newly diagnosed, weighing treatment, or living in remission. Meets the first Saturday of every month, in central Manchester and on Zoom.
What this means for youA ready referral for members facing prostate cancer who don't want to be the only queer person in the room — and a model for condition-specific queer peer support.
Plum Village UK
An online weekly mindfulness practice group for LGBTQIA+ people — meditation, deep listening and community 'where we don't need to assess risks of showing who we truly are' — with a monthly gender-diverse sangha alongside, open to any level of meditation experience.
What this means for youA free, ongoing, affirming wellbeing space to signpost members to — contemplative practice without the heteronormative room.
London LGBTQ+ Community Centre
Monthly groups at the Bankside centre include a queer walking group, over-50s socials — including Melanin Vybz for Black people and people of colour over 50, 50+ Trans and Non-Binary Social, and Trans Social Meetup — and sober spaces such as the LGBTQ+ Indian Network's monthly meetup, alongside other health and wellbeing, community, arts and crafts, and writing groups.
What this means for youLive examples of community provision across the full age range — and specific groups your older Black queer members can join this month.
NHS
The NHS's own guidance for men who have sex with men: an STI and HIV test every 3 months if having sex without condoms with new partners (otherwise at least once a year), vaccination guidance for hepatitis A and B, and plain-language coverage of the infections and where to get tested.
What this means for youThe clinical baseline for sexual health signposting — pair it with community-led conversation that the NHS page can't do.
akt (evidence to Parliament)
The national LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity's evidence: in 2024/25, 23% of all new referrals to akt were Black young people, and in London, Black, Brown and people of colour LGBTQ+ young people accounted for 71% of all cases. Family rejection interlinked with faith and culture is a key driver — and being housed near community can mean fear of being outed, narrowing options further.
What this means for youThe intersection in hard numbers: Black queer young people carry a disproportionate share of LGBTQ+ homelessness, and standard housing responses don't fit the danger they navigate.
Sexual Health journal (US study)
A US study (Jackson, Mississippi and Atlanta, Georgia) of 386 Black gay, bisexual and other sexual minority men, examining how disclosing one's sexuality to a health provider relates to health-care access and use — one of the few studies to isolate that dynamic for Black queer men.
What this means for youUS evidence on a question UK data rarely isolates — whether Black queer men feel able to be out to their clinicians, and what it costs their care when they can't. Read the numbers as US, the dynamic as shared.