BREAKING NEWS: After sixteen years, NSW opens its first Pride Center at Tyo…..
Twenty10, an LGBT community organization that offers social support and counseling, will be the building’s primary tenant.a safer place for the community is a true honor for Twenty10,” co-chair Mon Schafter of the organization said to the assemblyiend, Sydney’s first LGBT counseling service.
“My partner and I started a phone service, it was called Phone a Friend in 1973 in our front room of the house where I still live,” said De Waal.th a vital lifeline.
“It was a wonderful thing to do, but it was difficult.”
“I can attest firsthand that the phone service has saved many lives. There were so many men—mainly men—who sounded so hopeless that they had nowhere to turn.”
Tilly was with her parents, Krisandra Knight and Katie Lambert, for the opening.
In their home room in Balmain, Mr. De Waal and his partner launched Phone a Friend, the first LGBT counseling service in Sydney.
“My partner and I started a phone service, it was called Phone a Friend in 1973 in our front room of the house where I still live,” said De Waal.
Although difficult at the time, he claimed that it provided many people with a vital lifeline.
“It was a wonderful thing to do, but it was difficult.”
