Pippa Sterk

Pippa Sterk, an ambassador for British LGBT+ charity Just Like Us, writes for PinkNews about how lesbians in particular have grappled with loneliness amid lockdown. I want to shed light on the mental health crisis among young lesbians, but as I sit down to write this, I realise: how can I adequately capture the loss I’ve felt over the past year?ADVERTISING How can I write about something that is still continuing to impact us, despite the vaccine-shaped light at the end of the tunnel? Let’s begin with the facts. New statistics show LGBT+ young people are twice as likely to feel lonely and more than twice […]