Meet our new Development Worker for the Glasgow Community Project: Eve Moore

Hi everyone!  My name is Eve (she/her) and I’ve just started in my new role with LGBT Health and Wellbeing on the Community Project in Glasgow.  I’m really excited to be here and I will do my best to help develop the community, and combat isolation. I look forward to meeting all you wonderful people and see how I can get involved.

Prior to starting as Development Worker I worked as a sessional staff member on the project’s Rainbow Nights events, as well as on events for both the Glasgow and Lothian Trans Support Programmes.  Going back before my sessional work, I started volunteering for LGBT Health and Wellbeing in January 2019.

What got me involved?

Coming out in my late 20s, I really struggled to find the language to talk about my identity, and the headspace to allow myself to process it.  I attended my first events in 2018 and remember meeting our wonderful Development Worker in charge of the Glasgow Trans Support Programme: Katrina.  I would come to meetings and sit in a corner, in absolute awe of these wonderful trans folks, just like me.  They were all beginning to accept themselves and to process who they truly are, and I found this inspiring.

After maybe six months of coming to meetings and sitting in a corner, just talking to Katrina and the other staff members, I finally had the courage to be me at an event – something it had taken me years to build up to.  So when everyone else was having their lunch, I went to the bathroom and changed into my clothes.  I remember re-emerging into the room in a starry dress rather than the jeans and t-shirt I’d arrived in.  A huge weight lifted from me.  And as always, staff and attendees so positive and affirming.

What do I get from working with the community?

After eight to ten months of attending occasional events, I became a regular and would stay behind at the end to help tidy up and thank the staff.  This soon turned to volunteering, and from there I realised this is my true passion.

For the last two years I have enjoyed running Rainbow Nights – hosting online games for the community over Zoom, helping people play everything from Trivial Pursuit and Family Fortunes to the Crystal Maze, and my own game – Pride.

OK but who am I?

In my spare time, I enjoy nothing more than time on my couch either catching up on TV (most recently watching Breaking Bad again, Pose, Deep Space 9 and American Horror Story) or occasional gaming.  I also enjoy hillwalking but haven’t been up a Munro in three years now. I also have passions for makeup, Star Trek, heavy metal music, professional wrestling and vegetarian food.

What do I hope to achieve?

I’ve achieved a lot working with the community over the past three years but I feel I have only scratched the surface of the ideas I have.  I’m keen to facilitate events centred around music, culture, art and film – things I feel bring people together and help drive community development.  Before starting, I’d drawn up a huge spider diagram of all my ideas, so I definitely have a lot to work on, but ultimately it depends on what the community wants from me.

Moving on

I’m so excited to be working with the organisation and to have the chance to continue to help support and develop the community, and I look forward to catching up with you all. You can contact me at eve@lgbthealth.org.uk or leave a message for me on the admin phone at 0141 255 1767.