Wander inside this cafe on certain evenings during the month and it feels just like any other club that you’d remember from your youth. The room is alive with the hum and chatter of young and exuberant voices, the source of which is a cluster of teenagers who sit on the chairs and couches that fill the ground floor of the building occupied by GISDA – a homeless charity– on Caernarfon’s main square.

One group of youngsters sit huddled around a board game, others sit cradling hot drinks and talking about their day.</p> <p>I’m pretty sure I can hear the tinny rattle of Britney Spears’ Hit Me Baby One More Time floating faintly out of the sound system. However, there’s one thing that makes this club different to any of the others in the region – all of its members identify themselves as being part of the LGBT community.

What makes it even more unique is that it’s just one of two clubs of its kind in the whole of North Wales, the Viva LGTB group in Rhyl being the other. After a casual exchange of pleasantries and was ushered into a side room to chat with Aled David Griffiths. Aled, along with his friend and colleague Rebecca Davies Chapman – two people who I would later hear being affectionately described as the “parents” of the club - set up the group over a year ago. Both work for the NHS child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) but volunteer their time and expertise to run the club. Read more via Daily Post