Oxfordshire's
Homophobia Awareness Liaison Team
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HALT EVENTS
HALT Oxford meets every two months in the afternoon, in central Oxford.
Next  meeting scheduled: Tuesday 7 September 2010 at the Oxford Town Hall.
If you have any issues to raise or would like to attend a meeting please contact us in advance at:- Halt.oxford@hotmail.co.uk

HALT also holds outreach events to help encourage people to report homophobic, biphobic and transphobic incidents and to find out if there are other issues affecting LGBT people in the county. Details of future outreach events will be posted here.

LOCAL EVENTS  
If you know of a local event which may be of interest to LGBT people in the county, please let us know and we can look to add details here. Drop us an email (using the address above).

PRIDES AND MARDI GRAS
All over the country each summer a number of Pride events take place. Since the summer of 1972, when the first was held in London and just 700 people marched through London, thousands of people have taken the opportunity to celebrate LGBT life in all its diversity.
HALT was at Oxford Pride this year to tell people about their work and encourage people to report homophobic/biphobic and transphobic incidents. We also carried out our annual survey to better understand the issues facing LGBT people when they use local services.

Local and national pride events planned for 2010....
•  Swindon and Wiltshire Pride - 14 August, Old Town Gardens in Swindon (for more information, please visit www.swindonpride.com).
•  Reading Pride - 4 September, Kings Meadow Park in Reading (for more information, please visit www.readingpride.co.uk).










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HALT stand at Oxford Pride

IDAHO
17 May marked International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia - for 2010, HALT partners like Thames Valley Police ran awareness raising initiatives. The partnership itself used a regional LGBT publication to get the message out to people about the need to report incidents and the support available to them via HALT. For more information about IDAHO, visit www.dayagainsthomophobia.org.