Despite unprecedented societal transformation in Ireland, frontline service provision for the LGBT+ community remains virtually non-existent. This is particularly evident to those people living here who need supports urgently; LGBT+ asylum seekers, refugees and migrants - a minority within a minority whose living situations can render individuals isolated and silent. Through both users of Outhouse and preliminary research on migrant and refugee LGBT+ populations here, the need to provide a self-organised safe space became evident.
In 2017, the peer support group Safe Space emerged, meeting every Saturday in Outhouse, and has grown in confidence and capacity since.