What I've done so far...

First student council last night! Nothing LGBT related, mainly just an introduction to the process of the council and to introduce us to each other. Was excellently chaired by 'Our Sally' lol.

Honestly, I've not been able to do a lot so far as I'm still a bit new to the processes in the Union. Sally Wood has given me a handover talk though and I should be having a non-sabb information pack soon from my sabb 'buddy' officer.

However, this morning I've got in touch with a few people:
1. I've booked myself a place on a seminar for Health Challenge Wales about Sexual Health. I particularly want to bring up that a lot of Lesbian and Bisexual women that I've spoken to don't think that they have to have a smear test.
2. I've emailed the NUS LGBT Officers and put myself on their mailing list.
3. I've emailed the Welsh NUS LGBT Officer who has scheduled a meeting for the Committee (which I'm on as well) and given me some important dates.
4. Spoken to some people I know that are interested in bisexual and transgendered issues. I want to try and get a copy of some of the NUS leaflets about bi-phobia and talk about the possibility of gender neutral toilets and the administrative problems regarding the university and trans students.
5. Have emailed the LGBT Society to try and set up an ideas-storming-meeting with me so I can stay on track.

Was excited to see that North West England is now running a 'Transgender Empowerment Centre' which encompasses all non-gender varient people and they have quite a substantial survey of priorities although it only for people living North-West England.
http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2009/10/launch_of_the_t

The Campaign is Launched!

Hello! This is Rachelle, and I'm your LGBT Officer!

I found out I won on Friday but I've not really done anything yet. On Tuesday I am due to attend Student Council and then I'm going to be shown the ropes by ex-LGBT officer Sally Wood. Haven't emailed anyone that gave me their details at Fresher's Fair but probably will Tuesday night when I have a clearer idea of what contacts, resources etc.

I know the last couple of weeks have had some sobering news such as the increase in homophobic violence in London and also that hateful Daily Mail article but it just makes me more determined to try and improve the situation for LGBT people.

Please comment if you're interested in helping out or if you have any ideas. I'm also planning to blog about LGBT issues here, based on topical things, and if you want to contribute anything I can post it here.