LGBTQ+ Pride
If you are LGBTQ+ you may have questions about if this will affect your risk of cancer, or the screening or treatment you may need.
Sexual orientation and gender identity should not affect your access to the right healthcare. But we know that sometimes LGBTQ+ people may face extra challenges in getting the right help.
Read our information for LGBTQ+ people about cancer and find out about the support that is available to you.
Why is Pride important for people living with cancer?
Although sexual orientation and gender identity should not affect your access to the right healthcare, we know that sometimes LGBTQ+ people may face extra challenges in getting the right help.
If feel you or someone you know is being treated unfairly or being discriminated against, read our information being treated differently if you are LGBTQ+.
This includes advice about where you can get support and how to give feedback or make a complaint.
Information for LGBTQ+ people with cancer
We have information and advice about cancer for LGBTQ+ people that we created in partnership with OUTpatients – a cancer support and advocacy charity for the LGBTQ+ community.
LGBTQ+ people and cancer treatment
Our cancer information for LGBTQ+ people has advice about talking to your healthcare team, information about coping with cancer and the support and treatment that you should receive. You may worry about being treated differently. But if you are treated unfairly there are things you can do.
Find out who you can talk to, including LGBTQ+ cancer support groups.
Transgender and non binary people and cancer
If you are transgender (trans), non-binary, or both, our cancer information includes guidance about things like cancer risk, symptoms and screening, and treatment.
There is also advice about talking to your healthcare team, what to do if you are treated unfairly, and support that is available to you.
Information to help you whatever you're going through
Support for LGBTQ+ people with cancer
Talk to Macmillan
Talk to other LGBTQ+ people on our Online Community
LGBTQ+ cancer support groups
Join Macmillan at local Pride events
This year a great group of Macmillan staff and the LGBTQIA+ network is bringing Macmillan to local Pride parades up and down the country and would love to invite you and all our supporters to get involved.
We will be proudly sharing messages of solidarity and inclusivity and highlighting our services for the community.
Here's how to support Macmillan at a Pride event near you this year:
- Saturday 22 June 2024 - Edinburgh. Sign up here to take part in the parade.
- Saturday 29 June 2024 - London. Sign up here to take part in the parade.
- Sunday 21 July 2024 - Leeds. Sign up here to take part in the parade.
We will be adding more volunteering opportunities at Prides around the UK so if you don’t see one near you, come back soon to check.
To order your Pride T-shirts, flags and other merchandise visit Be.Macmillan.