The Pride Drop in Centre is now up and running.  We are open three days a week and have regular evening socials.  We are open to all Lesbian, Gay, Bi and transgender members of Wigan Borough.  You can drop in during the week for a cuppa and find out what is happening locally.

We had our first social evening which was a resounding success, it was great meeting new people and making new friends. 

For details of our loction and opening times, contact me at wiganlgf123@aol.com

Borough Pride
We’re a group of people who look for and create our own magic.  The magic of friendship, the magic of change and an end to isolation, to have our voices heard and our needs met in the community.  We range from the generation whose love dare not speak its name before 1968 to the young men and women with their fingers on the zeitgeist.  The group comprises of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and our straight friends.

We are about creating a network of friends and companions across the borough.  For too long we have lived quietly, heads down and have accepted our lot, now we want our voices heard and our needs met.  Our primary aim is to get our message out to the 30000 other LGBTs across the borough, we are here for you, come and join us each one of you will give us the strength for change.

We are all friends who again want and will campaign for change; we meet on the first Saturday of the month and will soon be meeting more often.  We will be arranging coach trips to Manchester, Liverpool and Blackpool.  In December we will be having our first Christmas party.  Contact us at wiganlgf123@aol.com

A masked gang systematically wrecked vehicles belonging to a Wigan taxi firm.  The owner Adrian Parkinson is gay and lives with his civil partner, David Guy.  Adrian Parkinson started the taxi firm with business partner Chris Porter only six months ago.  According to Wigan Evening Post Tuesday October 14 Adrian said: "I'm actually gay and live with my civil partner, and I think there might be some sort of homophobic element to it".

It's disgusting to think that even with the protection and rights that we have fought for all these years that these things still happen.  We're just people going about our every day lives just trying to make a living, keep a roof over our heads and doing harm to nobody.  Many of us are parents we range in age all across the board.  In this borough there are 13000 of us living quietly contributing to society, paying tax and participating in the community.  We're not monsters, abusers or molesters.......Just people.

If you are lesbian, gay, bi or trans and live in the Wigan Borough please get in touch at wiganlgf123@aol.com together we can improve our lives and make a difference.

I've posted adverts on Gumtree and Viva Street for members of the new Wigan & Leigh lesbian, gay and trans community group.  I have had a good response!  Next week I will be meeting with a representative from Wigan Council for Voluntary Services who will give me practicle help and advice about starting the group.  It seems quite complicated, Bank account, aims of group (all written down) insurace and a whole host of other things not to mention funding.......What have I got myself into???????  Still it will be worth it in the end (I hope!).

If you want to join please email me on wiganlgf123@aol.com

If you are any of the above don't be shy join the group and make new friends!

I must send a big thank you to whoever sent me the one about rat sh!t in
the glue on envelopes, because I now have to use a wet sponge with every
envelope that needs sealing.

Also, I now have to wipe the top of every cola and beer can I open for 
the same
reason.

I no longer have a job because I was caught forwarding an email which
gave
$0.03 to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital
for the 1,387,258th time. But my fortunes will change once I receive the
$15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft are sending me for participating in
their special email programs. Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria
who wants to split seven million dollars with me for pretending to be a
long lost relative of a customer who died intestate.

I no longer worry about my soulI  because I have 63,214 angels looking out
for me.

I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward e mails to
seven friends and make a wish within five minutes.

I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer can buy petrol without taking a friend along to watch the
car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm filling up.

I no longer go to shopping centres because someone will drug me with a
perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a
number and then I'll get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda ,
Singapore and Uzbekistan .

I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider
is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my
bum.

I can't even pick up the $5.00 I found dropped in the car park because
it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car
to grab my leg.

If you don't send this email to at least 10 people in the next 7
minutes, a large dove with diarrhoea will sit on your head at 5:00pm
this afternoon, causing you to grow a big hairy hump.

I know this because it actually happened to a friend of my next door
Neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's
beautician.

By the way....a South American scientist after a lengthy study has
discovered that people with low IQ who don't have enough sex, always
read their emails while holding the mouse.

Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late.

This is a funny accident report nothing to do with lgf issues just put it here because it made me laugh.  Don't be afraid to contact me on wiganlgf123@aol.com

Are you lesbian, gay or transexual?  If you are and have somthing to add to the group please contact me.

With the help of the Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF), I am starting a group/community in wigan.  I need your help and participation.  Without YOU there will be no community. 

So, what is this group?

This group is for anyone who is either gay, lesbian, transgendered, bisexual, not sure, or just don't fit into the 'norm' of society.

What Does The Group Do?

The group or rather community will give the following;

Social network;       You will get to meet others from Wigan who don't fit the 'norm'.  You will find out that you are not on your own, there's others                                        who have been there, done that and may have actually bought the T-shirt.  Find others for socialising such as chats or/and                                        nights out.  For example, Saturday night, you don't want to trail up to Manchester again, what do you do?  Through this group                                        you will make friends who will give you company (not the dating site kind).

Information & education

1   Health

2   Housing

3   Education

4   Legal Protection

5   Civil Partnerships

Aims and Objectives

With the help of the LGF this community will;

Have the tools, resources, information to challenge homophobia and isolation in all forms.