Brighton Gay and Lesbian Switchboard
Encyclopedia
Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard, Brighton & Hove's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Information, Support and Counselling Service is a British
listening service, or hotline
, for the LGBT
communities based in Brighton
. It has been in operation since April 1975.
It receives over 5,000 calls a year and its website handles 80,000 visitors per year.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
listening service, or hotline
Hotline
In telecommunication, a hotline is a point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically directed to the preselected destination without any additional action by the user when the end instrument goes off-hook...
, for the LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
communities based in Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
. It has been in operation since April 1975.
It receives over 5,000 calls a year and its website handles 80,000 visitors per year.