Paths Together at the Big Gay Out A gay New Plymouth man has begun a campaign to help adults with disabilities gain access to sex education and experience. Tom McAlpine has started Paths Together and is beginning to get the word out, in both the straight and gay communities, about the initiative. As well as sex ed for disabled people, he would like to see sex therapists and sex workers to be trained to teach disabled people about intimate relationships. It comes after he heard about a programme in Sydney which helps provide sex workers for disabled people, and thought it would be a good thing to start in New Zealand – but with the wider scope. “Hopefully it will get set up as a service and be able to give referrals. We’re starting to do that already with the Prostitutes Collective and so forth … hopefully it will become a national organisation,” he says. “It’s not an lgbt society per se. I am gay, but it’s for anyone, whether they are homosexual or heterosexual, or whatever. But it will definitely be ‘rainbow’ in that it will cater for different sexualities.” If you want to get involved you can find Paths Together on Facebook here
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Wednesday, 26th February 2014 - 2:07pm