We support openly
I'm LGBTQ+
We're a community: we help all our people from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan — with a doctor, paperwork, housing, English, work. It's just that we're one of those communities where LGBTQ+ people are supported openly, not tolerated in silence.
Many of us left because being ourselves at home is dangerous. So here nobody will test you, try to talk you out of it or 'cure' you. If you've come, you're one of us, and nobody will ask why you came.
If you haven't told anyone yet and don't intend to — that's your right. Nobody will ask, nobody will 'out' you, and being here doesn't mean declaring anything about yourself. If you need to be careful — join from a separate account without your own number or photo.
What we help with
Asylum based on sexual orientation
Sexual orientation is a lawful ground for protection under the 1951 Convention. The whole journey is broken down step by step: screening, waiting, interview, decision, evidence, refusal.
Open →Blackmail and digital safety
Phone, messages, intimate photos, threats to tell people back home. What to do straight away and why you must never pay.
Open →STIs: symptoms and tests
Eleven infections in one table. What's included in a standard test and what you need to ask for separately.
Open →Free vaccinations
Eight vaccines people back home usually don't get. HPV, hepatitis, mpox — free and with no documents.
Open →Life here
Doctor, mental health, dating, housing, rights at work. HIV, PrEP, chemsex — no moralising and no judgement.
Open →What all these words mean
GP, eVisa, share code, ILR, ASPEN, ESOL, U=U and thirty more terms that make your head spin at first.
Open →Helplines where you don't have to explain who you are
Danger right now
999Police, ambulance, fire. Can't speak — call and press 55.
24 hours
LGBTQ+ support line
0800 0119 100Switchboard. A conversation about anything: coming out, loneliness, fear. Can be completely anonymous.
Daily 10:00–22:00
Violence, blackmail, threats
0800 999 5428Galop. A helpline for LGBT+ people.
Mon–Tue 9:15–20:00, Wed–Fri 9:15–16:30
Asylum and LGBTQI+
020 3752 5801Rainbow Migration. 18+, you're in the UK, you have your own lawyer.
Services are free
HIV and sexual health
0808 802 1221THT Direct. Testing, treatment, PrEP, rights at work.
Mon–Fri 10:00–18:00
Survived sexual violence
0808 801 0332SurvivorsUK. For men, trans and non-binary people.
Mon–Fri 10:00–12:00, webchat 12:00–20:00
Personal plan · free · 24 hours
Your own route: a doctor, safety, a lawyer with experience of cases like yours
Rainbow Migration, clinics, PrEP, organisations near you — in one PDF for your situation.