Thursday 2nd October, 8pm Joes Bar, then onto DV8

Oh and you’ll get to meet the famous ‘Sid’ and ‘Twiggy’ too.

We’ll meet in Joes at about 8.00 to neck a few for dutch courage (drink reponsibly etc etc) and then we’ll catch da bus into town. Fresh.

Your LGBTQ Association welcomes all new and returning students.

We’re very excited that Welcome Week is finally here! In honour of the occasion we have included a lovely picture of a lady with ‘open arms’. This is obviously very important and symbolic and represents the friendly, accepting nature of your LGBTQ Association etc etc. We would analyse it further but it may get complicated, but we’re sure you’ll agree that she is quite lovely and does not look like a tit at all.

This week we’ll be making our way around halls to try and introduce ourselves to as many of you as possible. If anyone should have any problems with flatmates regarding homophobia (though that is very very very very rare – so don’t get scared) please let us know so we can help you out.

As well as visiting halls we’ll be at the ‘Change Your World’ and ‘Societies’ Fairs on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, which are in the Deb Hall and Welcome Week Marquee, both in the Guild of Students.

University’s a great, and common, time to come out but if any of you are worried, nervous or simply a bit shy then take advantage of our ‘Befriending Scheme’ and come and meet a couple of us, privately and confidentially, for a chat so you know a few faces before coming to an event. Just email us to arrange a time and a place.

Speaking of events… this Thursday we have our MEGA barcrawl and on Saturday we have our Meet ‘N’ Greet, so check the Events page for more details and make sure you don’t miss out. If the barcrawl clashes with a Fresher’s Fest or Postgrad event, sell your ticket and come with us instead. It’ll blatantly be much better.

Finally, don’t forget to join our Facebook group and mailing list. The Facebook group link is on the right of this page and you can sign up to the confidential mailing list by emailing us or signing up at one of the fairs or events. We take confidentialiality very seriously and can guarantee the safety of your details not being handed out.

We look forward to meeting you all soon and wish everyone a great Welcome Week ‘08.

Sunday October 5th, 7.30pm, Thompson Training Suite, Guild of Students

Every Sunday night at 7.30pm in the Guild of Student’s ‘Thompson Training Suite’ we host our popular LGBTQ Film Group. Each week we show a different LGBTQ related film projected onto a big screen. The film group is open to everyone who wants to come along, with a regular turn out of around 40 students. Like 99% of our events admission is free. It’s a great event for newcomers to meet some people in a relaxed and friendly environment and it’s also pretty damn good for anyone who loves film. We show a varied selection of movies that you won’t necessarily of heard of, from mainstream Hollywood to foreign arthouse. Past films have included Mulholland Drive, Mysterious Skin, Shortbus, Monster, The Watermelon Woman, Boys Don’t Cry, Y Tu Mama Tambien, La Mala Education and many many others. This year Film night will Start on Sunday 5th October.

After much deliberation and a few trips to A & E we finally decided that the first film to show would be ‘Party Monster’. It was a tough call… we didn’t want the first film to be too controversial, too fabulous, too disturbing, too intellectual etc etc so what better than Macaulay Culkin in a dress?!

Out.com have unveiled their list of the ‘100 gayest records of all time’, presumably because they have nothing better to do? BUt anyway, appearances from Abba, Cher, The Smiths and Madonna (several times) come as no shock but some of the choices really will surprise you. David Bowie tops the chart with his album ‘Ziggy Stardust…’. After reading their analysis it seems that i really should be paying more attention to lyrics, with some surprising groups seeming to show hidden agendas, and no, i don’t mean the Scissor Sisters.

In fact i’m surprised as to how many of the albums I own; Le Tigre (pictured), Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Bjork, The Beatles, Anthony and the Johnsons, The Magnetic Fields (69 Love Songs… if you don’t own it, go and buy it now) Lou Reed, and countless others. Go check out the full list and analysis now on the following link…

http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=24081

How many do you own? Have they missed any?

“Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said that the Church has an ‘obsession’ with sexuality when it should be focusing on issues such as poverty.

He told the BBC’s Robert Pigott that he is ashamed of homophobia within the Church.”

Check out the interview at the link below…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7602535.stm

Guy’s got a point.