Our upcoming Groups and events

Trans Guernsey Get Together
Informal chat in a safe space – all trans, queer, gender non-conforming & questioning peeps welcome.
PM for meeting location and details of how to join the meeting, or email hello@liberate.gg

Lit with Liberate will meet in August to discuss two graphic novels – Light Carries On by Ray Nadine & Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. Multiple copies are available to borrow, please email Beth at bbrown@library.gg to reserve yours.

Come along for pizza, drinks and book chat in the Rowswell Room on the second floor. Zoom attendance possible, please let us know if you want to take part this way and we’ll send you the details. No booking required. If you haven’t read the book but want to come along for a taster of the book group, please do!

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Light Carries On by Ray Nadine

When Leon’s camera unexpectedly breaks, he is forced to borrow a used one from his mom’s antique store. As he snaps the first picture, the ghost of the camera’s former owner is released and the two are inexplicably linked. After taking Leon’s body for an accidental joy ride, the ghost introduces himself as Cody, a queer punk rocker who died decades ago. Of course, he doesn’t remember how he wound up dead but the two decide investigating might be the only way to end the haunting.

Leon has been reeling from a recent break-up with his boyfriend, recovering from his time in the military, and trying to become a photographer who can afford to take pictures of something more than high school proms and weddings. So being the only one able to see and talk to a ghost that died before cellphones, Wikipedia, or iTunes seems like a great way to fill his ample free time. The two get closer as they travel around Chicago showing each other the landmarks of their pasts and trying to unearth the secrets around Cody’s mysterious death. They discover they have much more in common than expected as they explore the complexities of life, love, and afterdeath, taking breaks to jam out to tunes, hang out in planetariums, and slurp down tasty frozen beverages.

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.

Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

Trans Guernsey Get Together
Informal chat in a safe space – all trans, queer, gender non-conforming & questioning peeps welcome.
PM for meeting location and details of how to join the meeting, or email hello@liberate.gg

Liberate is working hard to finalise all the details for this year’s Channel Islands Pride! Click that ‘Interested’ or ‘Going’ button to make sure you get updates, because the full line up and event details will be posted soon!

Channel Islands Pride is the biggest FREE community event in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Not only that, but Pride in the Channel Islands is a fully grassroots event organised by Liberate, the LGBTQ+ charity.

Pride is a celebration of diversity and inclusion – everyone is invited to take part! Join in the festivities, dress to express, bring flags, make banners, and experience the vibrant spirit of this important community celebration.

Website: https://www.channelislandspride.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/channelislandspride/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@channelislandspride
X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CI_Pride
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@channelislandspride8266

#CIPride2024 #Guernsey #ChannelIslands #Pride #LGBTQ

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

Trans Guernsey Get Together
Informal chat in a safe space – all trans, queer, gender non-conforming & questioning peeps welcome.
PM for meeting location and details of how to join the meeting, or email hello@liberate.gg

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

Lit with Liberate will meet in October to discuss Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz. Multiple copies are available to borrow, please email Beth at bbrown@library.gg to reserve yours.

Come along for pizza, drinks and book chat in the Rowswell Room on the second floor. Zoom attendance possible, please let us know if you want to take part this way and we’ll send you the details. No booking required. If you haven’t read the book but want to come along for a taster of the book group, please do!

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Jill Gutowitz’s life—for better and worse—has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There’s the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill’s own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values—always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us.

Girls Can Kiss Now is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. This timely collection of essays helps us make sense of our collective pop-culture past even as it points the way toward a joyous, uproarious, near—and very queer—future.

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

Trans Guernsey Get Together
Informal chat in a safe space – all trans, queer, gender non-conforming & questioning peeps welcome.
PM for meeting location and details of how to join the meeting, or email hello@liberate.gg

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

Trans Guernsey Get Together
Informal chat in a safe space – all trans, queer, gender non-conforming & questioning peeps welcome.
PM for meeting location and details of how to join the meeting, or email hello@liberate.gg

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

Lit with Liberate will meet in December to discuss Radio Silence by Alice Oseman. Multiple copies are available to borrow, please email Beth at bbrown@library.gg to reserve yours.

Come along for pizza, drinks and book chat in the Rowswell Room on the second floor. Zoom attendance possible, please let us know if you want to take part this way and we’ll send you the details. No booking required. If you haven’t read the book but want to come along for a taster of the book group, please do!

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ABOUT THE BOOK

What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside.

But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. He unlocks the door to Real Frances and for the first time she experiences true friendship, unafraid to be herself. Then the podcast goes viral and the fragile trust between them is broken.

Caught between who she was and who she longs to be, Frances’ dreams come crashing down. Suffocating with guilt, she knows that she has to confront her past… She has to confess why Carys disappeared… Meanwhile at uni, Aled is alone, fighting even darker secrets.

It’s only by facing up to your fears that you can overcome them. And it’s only by being your true self that you can find happiness. Frances is going to need every bit of courage she has.

The second novel by the phenomenally talented author of Solitaire, Alice Oseman – the most talked-about YA writer right now. Radio Silence is a YA coming of age read that tackles issues of identity, the pressure to succeed, diversity and freedom to choose, a tour de force by the most exciting writer of her generation.

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too

🌈 Guernsey’s LGBTQ+ Youth Network 🏳️‍🌈

If you’re not out, it’s okay!

It’s a confidential safe space for LGBTQ+ people aged 11-18 to meet, form a community, get involved with events, and link up with mainland groups 🌍

Previously the Network has put on drag character creation workshops – if that sounds like your kinda thing, come along! 💅

While with us you can access LGBTQ+ youth workers to gain the support you need and help set up the youth group that you want.

📆 It’s on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

Bring your friends or come alone, no sign up needed & feel free to DM us or call ahead with any questions 💭

🤝 Run in partnership with the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney

📍 Find us at Unit 3, The Bordage (blue door down from the HUB)

🙋 Get in touch if you’d like more information!

✉️ You can email ellie@liberate.gg to join the mailing list too