Centro Gis is an LGBTI support service in central Matosinhos, run by the association Plano i out of the old town hall building on Rua de Brito Capelo. It has been working since January 2017 with LGBTI people who have experienced domestic or gender-based violence, including violence between partners of the same sex and violence against trans and intersex people.
The centre gives psychological support, legal advice, social work, and medical assessment and referral. It runs groups where people who have been through the same thing meet each other, and a telephone support line. It also trains people who work in social services, law, health, education and the media, and writes its own information material. The name is in memory of a trans woman who was murdered in Porto in 2006.
A mobile health unit, the Gabinete Itinerante de Saude, works out of the centre and takes testing and prevention for sexually transmitted infections around the municipality.
This is a support service rather than somewhere to go out. The premises are in the old town hall, next to the Brito Capelo metro stop and a short walk from Matosinhos market.
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