Terminating

This Wednesday (18th) there is a great opportunity to catch one of the Outburst Queer Arts Festival highlights for absolutely free and as a private viewing for Queen’s LGBT students, staff and friends.

So what’s the play??…

TERMINATING
by Tony Kushner
Directed by Alyson Campbell (wreckedallprods)
Inspired by Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 75,” this 30-minute play is classic Kushner in its robust tirades against everything from human ambivalence and existential paradoxes to window curtains and the smell of anal sex.

This is a fantastic opportunity to meet the LGBT Staff Network, witness some fastastic theatre and have a social drink afterwards.

All welcome, free entry. 7:30pm The Snack Bar, 3rd Floor of the SU (next to Queen’s Radio).

3 Meetings Next Week

Hope everyone enjoyed last night, what a success! Come back again for Taboo on Wednesday 1st Dec

So…next week is an action packed affair with 3 very different events. Firstly there’s the first official campaign meeting in the McClay Library on Tuesday (Nov 9th)(you’ll need to have a valid Queen’s Student Card to attend this one i’m afraid but there is a general open campaign meeting in two weeks for anyone to attend!) We’ll meet outside the Library at 7:50pm for 8pm start in one of the private study rooms.

Then on Thursday Nov 11 there’ll be another social night but this time headed towards the Limelight! Meet in Bar Sub at 9pm everyone welcome!

Finally as part of the Outburst Queer Arts Festival we are going to head to a free showing of ‘For the Bible Tells Me So’ on Sunday, Nov 14. Meet outside the SU at 4:45pm or make your own way to All Souls Church (opposite the MBC on Elmwood Avenue) for 5pm.

Free movie and Taboo

Wednesday 03 Nov 2010
7pm The Space (room 2) free screening of ‘Breakfast on Pluto’

Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 Irish comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe. This dark comedy stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender orphan searching for love and her long-lost mother in small town Ireland and London in the 1970s.

At 10pm Taboo -The Student’s Union Gay Night kicks off in the Bunatee Bar (basement SU) it’s £2 in and it’s going to be fan-flippin-tastic!

Meetings coming up…

There are two meetings coming up.
The first is our coffee meeting which will take place on Wednesday 13th October in Bar sub at lunch time 12-2pm. Come along, grab a drink and maybe a sandwich and come chat about nothing in particular!

Our next full meeting will be on Tuesday 19th October, 8pm in Club Room 5, Top Floor of the SU. We’ll have a presentation by a local LGBT group to learn about some facilities available to us and the work that they do. We’ll head down to the bar afterwards for a post-meeting social too.

Join our facebook group to keep up to date with our events (link is on the top left!)

First Meeting TOMORROW

Just a quick reminder that the first meeting is taking place tomorrow (Thursday 7th Oct). It’s in Club Room 1 (Top floor of the students union) at 8pm and absolutely everyone is welcome to come along, gay, straight, questioning, Queen’s student or general member of the public.

Can’t wait to see you all there.

Cohesion, Sharing and Integration Consultation

The Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister have agreed to host an LGB&T specific sectoral consultation event regarding their draft Programme for Cohesion, Sharing and Integration.

Throughout the document there are references to creating a culture of rights, responsibility and respect. Officials from OFMdFM are keen to emphasise that this document is designed to compliment and not replace existing equality legislation.

Please do take a read through the document and give us your views at lgbt@qub.ac.uk and we can pass them on at the meeting, or if you’d like to come along just send us a quick email to show your interest.

This meeting will take place on Tuesday 19 October 2010, 7.45 p.m – 10.00 pm in the Olympic 1 Suite, Holiday Inn, 22 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HS.

Read the Programme for Cohesion, Sharing and Integration Consultation Document

Student Council Nominations

LGBT views are incredibly under-represented at Queen’s and we’re fed up of anti-gay decisions being pushed through our students union. HOWEVER now is YOUR opportunity to change this and get elected onto the student council. Stand up and be counted and most importantly help LGBT students to really have a voice and get things done for us in our student union.

First year students are much more likely to be elected, as well as postgrads and those on engineering and science courses. Arts, humanities and social sciences students face tough competition and will probably need to campaign and get a large number of people on their respective courses to vote for them!

The council only meets once every couple of months and there’s always free tea and coffee and some lovely sandwiches, worth it for the free food alone!

Online polling (via Queen’s Online) shall take place on Tuesday 19 October 2010, with the exception of the Open and Open First Year constituencies, for which online polling shall take place on Tuesday 26 October 2010.

Completed nomination forms must be returned in person to the 2nd Floor Reception in the Students’ Union. You may be asked to produce your student card in order to confirm your identity. Completed nomination forms may also be presented to Dominic Doherty (the Returning Officer). You are also required to return an equal opportunities monitoring form with your nomination form.

Nominations close at 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday 13 October 2010. Please note that nominations for the Open constituency and the Open First Year constituency close at 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday 20 October 2010.

Nomination Form
Monitoring Form
Info for Applicants

Fresher’s Bazaar

Just a reminder about Wednesday this week (29th Sept), the Fresher’s Bazaar will take place in the Students Union between 10-3 and we’ve lots of goodies to give away to anyone who signs up to the society. You can get your hands on a free GayDar membership, whistle, ipod sock, rainbow ring AND a lolly pop! Now that’s worth £3 aint it?!

Plus of course you’ll also get a discount off our events and hoodies as a member of the society so come and sign up. We just need to see your student id, if you’re a member of another University or Institute of Higher Education we’ll need your student id and your join up fee will be £5 or if you’re not a student you need to be over 18 (valid id required) and £10 to join.

Freshers’ Bazaar & First Meeting

Hello to everyone on Welcome and Orientation Week @ Queen’s University Belfast!

We’re geared up and really rather excited about the up and coming Freshers’ events so if you want to join the society, come along to a meeting and have some fun then you’re in for a treat. The Freshers’ Bazaar is on Wednesday the 29th of Sept between 10-3pm, here there will be lots of stalls representing most of the clubs and societies at Queen’s so you can see what they are about and sign up to as many or as few if as you wish. You can join the LGBT Society here for just £3 (a one time only offer as after freshers’ week its the princely sum of £4!) so come armed with your new address and student number and we’ll get it sorted for you

The First Meeting will be on Thursday the 7th of Oct at 8pm, the room is yet to be booked but it will be in the Club Rooms, located on the Top Floor of the Student’s Union. This is just an informal meeting, we’ll introduce ourselves (the executive) and tell you a bit about the society, then we’ll have a few games (manatory to start learning some names!) and after all that is over with we’ll head down to Bar Sub for a social tipple. After the Union, if you want to, we’ll go out to the scene and visit Belfast’s gay bars. This is going to be a really fun night and there’s usually a good crowd of around 40 so be prepared to meet some new friends and a have a laugh.

Any questions, queries or problems? Then just send us a quick email to lgbt@qub.ac.uk and we’ll get back to you straight away.

See you all soon!

Welcome Freshers!

To all of you who’ve recieved your A Level results this week

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S

Hopefully you’ve been accepted to Queen’s University Belfast and you’re running around trying to get everything ready for September.

We’ve been busy and made a few things to make your transition to university even easier. Check out the ‘Downloads’ tab for our brand spanking new Fresher’s Guide leaflet download. It deals with the basics and compacts most of what this website says into two easy to read A4 pages, how brilliant is that?!

We can’t wait for the new year to begin and we hope to see you soon. Head over to the facebook page to keep up to date with all of our latest news and events!