Supporting LGBTQ+ Staff
Please note that University guidance and policy related to trans and non-binary inclusion are currently being reviewed in light of the ruling by the Office for Students of 26 March 2025.
- LGBTQ+ Staff NetworkWe are here to support you in your time at the University and help to create an LGBTQ+ community by listening to your ideas and work with the University to make changes - whether that be through creating inclusive policies, supporting Pride, creating more inclusive toilets or ensuring LGBTQ+ visibility across the University. All LGBTQ+ members of staff at the University are welcome to join, including postgraduate researchers.
- Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex Voices GroupThe Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex Voices Group is a group within the LGBTQ+ Staff Network run by and for Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex staff members, where anyone who feels their experience lies outside the gender binary is very welcome to connect with colleagues in a relaxed, friendly group. The group members can also provide valuable personal perspectives to the University which help make our culture and community more inclusive for everyone. To join the group, please email staff-lgbtx-committee@bristol.ac.uk to be added to our confidential mailing list, and let us know if you'd prefer to be Cc'd or Bcc'd into emails to the group.
Supporting our LGBTQ+ Staff Community
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2025 dates: 28 JUNE – 13 JULY; PRIDE DAY: SAT 12 JULY
We are proud to sponsor Bristol Pride, a unique and important event in our city that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community offering the chance to connect people. As well as showcasing our wonderfully diverse community, Pride is about overcoming prejudice, hatred, reducing isolation, and showing members of the LGBTQ+ community that they are not alone.
Embracing being LGBTQ+ can have a positive impact on someone’s mental well-being: they may have more confidence, a sense of belonging to a community, feelings of relief and self-acceptance, and better relationships with friends and family. Being LGBTQ+ does not automatically mean that someone will have mental health issues. But some things LGBTQ+ people go through can affect their mental health, such as discrimination, homophobia or transphobia, social isolation, rejection, and difficult experiences of coming out.
The Mental Health Foundation has a range of resources available: LGBTIQ+ people: statistics | Mental Health Foundation
Mind also offer help and support for LGBTQ+ mental health: LGBTQIA+ mental health - Mind
Mindline Trans+, available Friday evenings (0300 330 5468): Mindline Trans+
Switchboard National LGBTQIA+ Support Line, available 10am – 10pm (0800 0119100): Switchboard
LGBT Foundation Support Line, available weekdays 9am – 6pm (0345 3 30 30 30): LGBT Foundation Support Line
The University Staff Counselling Service has a specialist LGBTQ+ counsellor for colleagues that may be struggling with issues relating to sexuality or gender identity. There is an option to select this on the referral form.
Zoteria is a free app developed by Vodafone Foundation in partnership with UK LGBTQ+ anti-abuse and rights charities Galop and Stonewall. It enables people to report hate incidents, either against themselves or on behalf of someone else, and access support from LGBTQ+ charities. It also provides educational information, news and events, and aims to improve the reporting of trends relating to LGBTQ+ hate incidents to build a more accurate picture of the issue across the UK.