Stu Fenton will address the many specificities of the LGBT communities and individualities through a multifaceted approach linking identity quest, painful stigmas of Chemsex and addiction, and most importantly the courage and mindfulness of a community facing its challenges with hope and determination. We have so much to learn here. Could it well be that a Minority is actually leading the Majority by example of self-discovery and self-introspection? As Stu Fenton & al. proposed in Berlin in 2018: “Surely gay culture is not just something depressing? It’s also about self-discovery, adventure, relating to a group of peers, have meaningful relations, reaching out to others in order to lift each other up and having all sorts of primal instincts satisfied.”

1. Could a Minority be leading
the majority when it comes to
Self Discovery and Introspection?
“The Courageous LGBT+ community – journey
from stigma to identity and from pain to hope.”

2. Pride in London celebrates 50 years since Stonewall Riots with Jubilee theme: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/04/09/pride-london-celebrates-50-years-stonewall-riots-with-jubilee-theme

3. Stuart Fenton
R12 Programme Director
B.A. Dip. Ed. Grad. Dip. Couns, CSAT Candidate, Master of Gestalt

4. “surely gay culture is not something depressing? It is also about discovery,
adventure, relating to a group of peers, having meaningful relations, reaching
out to others in order to lift each other up and having all sorts of primal
instincts satisfied.”

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8. Source: https://www.biography.com/news/harvey-milk-biography-facts

9. Source: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/04/16/conchita-wurst-dana-international-eurovision-song-contest-2019/

10. Source: https://www.sky.com/watch/title/series/58556f75-a475-4cb6-b43f-7b0805428cc4/

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14. Source: http://news.trust.org/item/20190414195920-rz8dm

15. Source: http://www.newnownext.com/photos-10th-gay-games-kicks-off-in-paris/08/2018/

16. Source: http://www.binghamrufc.co.uk/photos/625381/16330966.html

17. Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-lgbt-marriage/taiwan-celebrates-asias-first-same-sex-marriages-as-couples-tie-knot-idUSKCN1SU0G4

18. Source: https://www.lunion.fr/id61098/article/2019-04-28/julia-boyer-agressee-en-mars-paris-de-nouveau-victime-de-transphobie-nice

19. Source: https://i.redd.it/8jqxjs1skxv21.jpg

21. Joe Kort -
Alan Downes -
Rob Weiss -
David Fawcett -
Matthew Todd -
Ten Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives
The Velvet Rage
Cruise Control
Lust Men and Meth – A gay men’s guide to sex and recovery
Straightjacket – Overcoming Society’s Legacy of gay shame.

22. Source: https://www.brighton-pride.org/

23. Source: https://www.bjp-online.com/2017/11/in-the-ward-gideon-mendel-started-his-career-spanning-battle-against-the-stigma-of-hivaids/

24. “They came from all over the Bay Area: young and old; black and brown and white;
gay and straight; immigrant and native born; men and women and children of all
backgrounds streaming into Castro Street – Harvey’s Street – faces wet with his
hand clutching candles. Hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of fill the
street and begin the long slow march down Market Street to City Hall, a river of
candlelight moving in total silence through the center of the city.”

25. LGBT+ ADVERSITY
The AIDS Crisis. 1980 – 2000
Minority Stress
Chemsex 1995 – 2020

26. Source: https://www.bjp-online.com/2017/11/in-the-ward-gideon-mendel-started-his-career-spanning-battle-against-the-stigma-of-hivaids/

27. Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/3065109/secrets-stress-test-campaign-continues-with-a-transgender-woman-in-the-ladies-room/

28. Making Meaning
Empathy
Resilience
Courage
Creativity
Intelligence

29. The Positive Aspects Study

30. Responses to bullying and stigma by LGBT+ youth

31. Source: https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/03/the-chemsex-scene-was-the-darkest-place-ive-been-but-it-led-to-my-recovery-7759272/

32. Source: https://www.aides.org/actualite/aides-devoile-le-spot-une-toute-nouvelle-offre-en-prevention-et-en-sante-sexuelle

33. Shame Creating Situations

34. Drag queens and kings with Down's syndrome - BBC Stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcautkf_ICI

35. Q&A

36. www.thecabinchiangmai.com www.resort12.com