Diversas is the LGBTIQA+ association for Tenerife, with its main office on Calle de La Verdad in Puerto de la Cruz and a second one in La Orotava.
It runs four service areas: sexual and integral health, including HIV work and campaigning against serophobia; psychosocial support and counselling; legal advice; and socioeducational work in schools. It coordinates Red Asterisco, a network that pushes local diversity policy through the island's municipalities, and it organises Pride events and publishes guides and glossaries in Spanish.
The association is also the body that speaks publicly when something goes wrong on the island, from a vandalised LGBTIQA+ memorial plaque in Santa Cruz to the cancellation of a local Pride. For a visitor it is the place to go for support, and it takes volunteers.
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