Like last year QUB LGBT are invited to attend the Inside and Out Investment Banking Conference held in London. It’s a chance for any LGBT identified students on any pathway interested in investment banking to meet the leaders of major banks across the world.
It will be held on Monday the 10th November at the Savoy hotel and all travel will be fully reimbursed. They also provide a drinks selection, finger food and a goody bag jam packed with information and freebies.
This is a fantastic opportunity, not least to see London for free, but for graduate employment as well. Email president@qublgbt.org.uk for more details or to apply!
In the first national survey of its kind, Equality Challenge Unit has commissioned research into the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGB&T) staff and students in higher education.
Led by Professor Gill Valentine, Professor Paul Plummer and Dr. Nichola Wood from the University of Leeds, the research will identify any barriers or other issues specifically affecting LGB&T staff and students. The research findings, due to be published in March 2009, will establish whether the higher education sector needs to take further action to engage with and support these groups.
You can have your say by visiting equalsurvey.co.uk and also enter the competition to be in with a chance of winning an MP3 player.
Chill and Chat in Bar Sub this Wednesday at 1pm in the Students Union. Come along, grab a drink and catch up with everything and everyone
There is also a meeting this week on Thursday at 8pm on the Top Floor of the Student’s Union. The Rainbow Project are our guest speakers and there’ll be a few nibbles and soft drinks available on us After the meeting we’ll be heading down to Bar Sub for a bit of a social and we’ve also lined up Free Entry into Mynt for Mish Mash so come along and enjoy a night out
Finally, High School Musical 3 won our Bebo poll as the event most of you would like to go to so we’re going to go on “crazy Tuesday” next week to see it for a meagre £3 Now doesn’t that sound like a cheap night out?! Yup. We’ll post the times when we know them and we’ll all meet outside the SU and walk down together Tuesday Night.
Labour re-affirm their commitment to LGBT rights as Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, promises to further tackle homophobic bullying in schools.
In his conference speech, ED Balls said, “No child should be bullied or held back because of their race, their disability or their sexuality,” he said.
Just to remind those of you thinking David Cameron’s conservative government makes more sense, here’s what a Conservative MPs in previous years have said when Labour brought in more gay friendly policies into schools:
Conservative MP Philip Davies described recommendations such as clamping down on homophobic language in schools and running gay awareness campaigns as “barmy, politically correct nonsense.”
He told The Sun that it would, “brainwash kids.”
“Schools should concentrate on teaching children the 3Rs,” he said.
At least Ed Balls offers the LGBT community a shred of hope.
As our first Activist Meeting is coming up this Thursday 16th Oct (8pm Club Room 1 Student’s Union) we’ve been looking around for inspiration from other campaigns. Pink News have reported this one, a major initiative across 33,000 media stations in the USA with celebrities such as Hilary Duff and Wanda Sykes.
A new campaign that aims to raise awareness among straight teenagers about the consequences of homophobic language in American schools has been launched.
Which continues
Homophobic remarks such as “that’s so gay” are the most commonly heard type of biased remarks in US schools.
Research shows that these slurs are often unintentional and are a part of teens’ vernacular.
Most do not recognise the consequences, but the casual use of this language often carries over into more overt harassment.
Certainly some interesting materials and ideas can also be found on the website www.ThinkB4YouSpeak.com
A public lecture is to take place on Saturday the 18th October at St George’s Church Hall, Hight St. Belfast at 2.15pm. Entitled “Living Sexuality and Spirituality Positively” and delivered by Dr Andrew Yip of Nottingham University who is an internationally known sociologist of religion on the subject of religion and homosexuality. His book “Gay Male Christian Couples: Life Stories” is just one of dozens of articles, reports and books which he has written.
The event is grant aided by the Good Relations Unit of Belfast City Council and organised by Changing Attitude Ireland which is a network of persons, gay and straight, working for the inclusion of LGBT persons within our churches.
More info about Changing Attitude Ireland can be found here.
QUB LGBT aims to get as many of its members as possible elected into the Student Council every year to maximise the LGBT voters in the union. To help the LGBT community at Queen’s get as much support as possible please fill out a Student Council nomination form (available from www.qubsu.org or on the 2nd floor reception in the Union) and hand it into the 2nd floor reception by 5pm this Wednesday the 15th October.
The council meets once a month, provides a lovely platter of free sandwiches and looks great on your CV so get those nomination forms in and we’ll help you campaign if your faculty has many entrants.
Herbert Smith are coming to QUB on Monday the 20th of October and are inviting LGBT students along to a presentation and drinks reception in the Council Chamber/Canada Room 6.30 – 8.30 and is open to students from any discipline. This is a fantastic opportunity, Hubert Smith is a law firm based trhought the world, with an international client base including Coca Cola, BSkyB, O2 and Price Waterhouse Cooper. The firm is dedicated to diversity and fairness in the employment sector.
Come along and make some useful graduate employment contacts and grab your free drink.
Everyone is invited to attend, if you’d like more information please email president@qublgbt.org.uk
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