February 24, 2009
Sarah Boles, current LGBT Soc President, will be running for VP Equality and Diversity in the elections next week. If elected she will be the first openly gay candidate to serve on the SU Executive at Queen’s, a title she says has been too long in coming.
We’ve waited a long time to have someone represent us at the highest level in the Students Union and I would love to be the first person to do so. LGBT issues have come a long way in the past couple of years and I’ve had the privilege to be involved with the society and the larger LGBT community for the past three years.
Highlighting the need for a safe space to report hate crime and gender neutral facilities, Boles further added
We need to create an open minded Union where everyone can feel safe and secure without having to face those drunken comments from random people walking home or to be able to walk hand in hand with the people we love without verbal persecution.
Sarah’s manifesto as well as the other candidates are available online via the su website www.qubsu.org
Student elections take place next Tuesday and Wednesday (3-4th March) on Queen’s Online.
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February 24, 2009
Presented by Amnesty International NI and Queen’s University Belfast, School of Law.
Modern Liberty Convention, Belfast
Venue: Room 212, Peter Froggatt Centre Queen’s
Belfast will be live-linked to the Convention on Modern Liberty, a major event taking place in London on Saturday 28 February 2009. The Belfast event is sponsored by Amnesty International and Queen’s University School of Law. The central event is being sponsored by Rowntree Foundation, openDemocracy, Liberty and The Guardian.
Belfast will join by live, big-screen, link, a plenary session in the morning with a panel of nationally distinguished speakers from across the political spectrum discussing ‘Citizens and the state: the crisis of liberty’.
Meanwhile, in Belfast, there will be two sets of four parallel sessions in the morning and afternoon, each focused on a different question relating to modern liberty and human rights in Northern Ireland, nationally or internationally. The panels are being sponsored and organised by a range of interested organisations and bring together activists, academics, politicians and others.
There will be a final plenary session live from London on ‘How do we secure modern liberty?’ with another great line-up of speakers. We hope to round off the day’s discussions with a drinks reception.
Tickets £12/£6 Student
Find out more here
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Posted by sarahboles
February 16, 2009
Dear Friend,
As you may be aware the Rainbow Project, with the support of the Northern Ireland Policing Board LGBT Reference and PSNI LGBT Independent Advisory Group, are currently carrying out research into homophobic hate crime in Northern Ireland.
For any of you who have Gaydar or Gaydar girls profiles, you will get one weeks free membership for completing the survey. Please take a few moments to complete it with as much detail as possible to ensure the best result, and to give us the best opportunity for the changes which we are trying to implement in relation to Policing in Northern Ireland.
Also, can I ask all those organisations to forward this link out on your own mailing lists. I, along with the steering group, am concerned that we will have low numbers of women completing the survey due to the majority of the publicity being through Gaydar and Gaydar Girls and Gaydar having a much higher membership. Because of this can I ask LASI and Lesbian Line to try their best to get as many of their members/service users to complete this as possible.
Thank you all for your support to date on this issue and I look forward to having a strong response to report to you on.
The link to the survey is http://survey.qsoft.co.uk/wsb.dll/4/rainbowproject.htm
John
John O’Doherty
(Equality Officer)
The Rainbow Project
2-8 Commercial Court
Belfast
BT1 2NB
t: (028) 9031 9030
f: (028) 9031 9031
e: john@rainbow-project.org
w: www.rainbow-project.org
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Posted by sarahboles
February 16, 2009
This Thursday, 19th Feb, at 8pm we’re meeting with the VP Equality & Diversity, Shane Brogan to talk over LGBT issues in the union. He’s kindly providing sandwiches, tea and coffee so come along and share you’re opinion.
At this meeting we’ll also be discussing our social calendar if there’s anything you want to do come along and share, we’ve a massive budget this semester so if you want to go down to Dublin, go ice skating, bowling or even to the zoo then bring all of your suggestions with you and tell us how to spend the money!
Afterwards we’ll head down to Bar Sub like usual for a wee social tipple. See you on the Top Floor of the SU at 8!
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Posted by sarahboles
February 16, 2009
This week final year drama undergraduates are producing gay playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding at the Drama and Film Centre. This is a great opportunity to see a widely underproduced but beautifully lyrical play. The play runs from Tuesday 17th – Thursday 19th Feb at 7:30. £5/3 conc.
We’re going to see it on Wednesday 18th and meeting in the foyer of the QFT at 7pm, don’t miss out!
**This was first advertised at ‘Yerma’ but I got the plays wrong, same playwright, different play! -Sarah
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Posted by sarahboles
February 3, 2009
Welcome back and best of luck in the Spring Semester.
Just to keep you updated our first meeting is on Wednesday 4th at 12pm in Bar Sub (Basement of SU) so come and chill out and chat with a drink and some lunch.
Also on Wednesday at 6:30pm we’re going to catch a screening of ‘Milk’ at the QFT so why not join us?
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