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Welcome Week Gay Village Bar Crawl- September 2008
 Thursday, September 4th, 2008, 4:10PM    by aaronyeah    No Comments »  

A sophisticated evening of conversation and canapes (aka – not).

Thursday 25th September, 7pm

 

Meet in Joes Bar, Guild of Students

 

The annual LGBTQ Welcome Week Bar Crawl (or fresher’s barcrawl as most people call it) is one of the most notorious nights on our calender and certainly not to be missed.

Take a break from your Fresher’s Fest events (if it clashes – sell your ticket… guaranteed profit) to come and make friends as your LGBTQ committee manically tries to introduce everyone to everyone else (so don’t worry about coming on your own) before introducing you to Birmingham’s famous gay village.

We’ll head into town from 8pm onwards and whilst we obviously encourage responsible drinking, it’s usually a case of ‘last one standing’… because you’ll obviously be all too exhausted from the dancing to stand anymore…

Birmingham’s gay village has quite a few venues, so we’ll only realistically be able to go to a few on the barcrawl -but don’t worry over the first few weeks of term, we’ll try and introduce you to them all. For this first barcrawl (i imagine they’ll be many more) due to the offer of drinks promotions and having the capacity to fit all of us in we’ve decided to go on a slightly different route this year encompassing Missing, The Fox and then heading onto Nightingales later . (We’ll take you to Birmingham’s other big gay club the following Thursday)

TICKET INFO:

Whilst we like to keep all our events free we will be selling tickets for this event. However this ticket price is to cover entrance into Nightingales who charge an entry fee on Thursdays, by ticketing the event in advance you won’t have to pay on the door, and therefore there shouldn’t be much of a queue. Also we’re negotiating to get some stuff thrown in along the way and have already got free shots and free jugs of cocktail in The Fox. We’ll let you know once we’ve confirmed further deals, but the ticket price won’t exceed £4 pounds.

If this doesn’t sound like your thing… not to worry; we’ll confirm details of our other events soon.

 

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 Thursday, March 6th, 2008, 2:57PM    by aaronyeah    No Comments »  

I too would like to discuss the events of last week. It was great to see so many differing faces at both the evening with Rikki Beadle-Blair and the Big LGBTQ Debate. The feedback i’ve had has been great, and it was really refreshing to finally not shy away from overtly political topics and be able to sit down, discuss, suggest, interrogate and actually communicate face to face.

I know Rikki inspired a lot of people so hopefully we’ll see more of you taking an active interest in the future. As for the debate, it was far more subdued than i thought it was going to be, and I actually think some greater disagreements wouldn’t have been a bad thing. Though it was really interesting to see how much we all agreed on, considering that the people in the room supposedly had seriously conflicting political opinions.

However i disagree with the conclusions Gaz speculates that we reached. Whilst it was nice to have a bit of a Tory bash i don’t think there was a general consensus that we’ve achieved loads of great things since 1997 (i think Gaz’z Labour leanings may be putting a rather rosey tint on things).  In fact i think we concluded that there is still a very long way to go and that a number of the things achieved over the past decade actually count for very little and will do nothing in changing attitudes and values of the general public towards the LGBTQ community. I think we decided that in fact the achievements, if any help at all, only help(ed) those looking to assimilate into a no fuss ‘this is ‘equal’ enough for me’ kind of lifestyle.

 I think Emma O’Dwyer’s recent campaign tagline ‘Liberation with no apologies’ is great… so many people, even at the debate seem to think we’re being pedantic in our quest for liberation, that we should be happy with what the heterosexuals have given us and when they give us a new right we should be eternally grateful for the good deed they’ve done… which i obviously find completely laughable

Obviously i’m sure many of us could have debated all night, so i’ll save some thoughts back for the next debate which i hope there will be many more of.

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