Archive for February 19th, 2010
Hiya,
Just to let anyone who is interested know, LinC (Lesbians in Cork) are starting up Mental Health training soon. It is open to everyone male and female and I’d encourage you all to go. There is an introduction night in the Other Place on North Main Street next Tuesday at 7pm.
Following that there will be a 5 week course if anyone is interested. I would really encourage you to come Tuesday – particually anyone interested in running for next year’s committee as we are trying to ensure mental health awareness continues to be important to the LGBT society.
I will be there myself on Tuesday, and if anyone wants more information contact linc at info@linc.ie
See ya soon
Michelle
February 19 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Hello Everyone,
I hope you are all having a lovely week!
Below is a link to a survey I compiled during the week for our members. It would
be really helpful if all of you could fill it out as it will provide us with
information on our members’ needs and what could be done to improve the
society in the future! Just bear in mind that some questions are
specifically for UCC students and most questions are directed at the LGBT
members rather than our heterosexual members. The survey is open to all of
our members though and we would love to hear your feedback! It is completely
confidential and anonymous. Check it out anyway and let me know if there are
any problems with it – just paste it into the toolbar if it doesn’t direct
you automatically!
http://www.surveybob.com/surveybob/s/b3f1e655-7777-43b2-9de1-57b01d4365bb.html
As always, if any of you have any questions about the society, wish to use
the Buddy System or need information on local LGBT sources of support,
please feel free to email me in confidence at lgbt@uccsocieties.ie
Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply so far!
Also, in feedback so far we noticed that a lot of our members were reluctant to come to meetings alone. Feel free to drop me a line if you want to go for coffee and meet someone in person so there’s a friendly face at the next meeting! That’s exactly what I’m here as MDO for. It’s definitely not too late in the year to get involved!
Slán and take care,
Laura (UCC LGBT Membership Development Officer).
February 19 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Just so you know – we got 600 signatures in under 3 hours on campus during Rainbow Week in support of full civil-marriage equality for same-sex couples. We also distributed leaflets letting students know why the proposed Civil Partnership Bill is a disgrace and gives only a 1/3 of the rights pertaining to marriage.
We will be contacting every TD in the Dáil in the next week to inform them of our finding and urge them to address this issue. We urge all our members to inform family and friends about this huge inequality if they can as many people who are not directly affected have no idea how discriminatory this is. Also anyone who feels they are able to- please contact your local TDs as part of MarriagEquality’s “Out to you TD” Campaign.
http://www.marriagequality.ie/action/contacttd/
Get involved in change!
Your Campaigns Officer,
Cian
February 19 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Blood Ban is so gay!
I mean in a country which is short of blood, rejecting blood from 5-10% of it’s male citizens makes no sense. Men who have sex with men (ever!) are currently given a life-time ban. So hypothetically you could get 2 male virgins who are each other’s one and only’s banned from ever giving blood the minute the sleep together yet their straight friend who goes out every Saturday night and brings a different girl home receives no such ban.
Certain sexual practices are undoubtedly more risky but why not base a ban on a real risk such as sexual practices (safe vs. unsafe) as opposed to sexual orientation? It reeks of a different era where people thought HIV/AIDS was “the gay plague” without any real understanding of how it was transmitted. Thankfully medical knowledge has moved on, and the majority of my gay/bi friends are among the safest in the sack. Lets hope the IBTS catch up with medical advances and reality!
Keep an eye on UCC Express for my article on this and a report of Padraig’s experiance of trying to give blood.
Your angry First Year Rep
Tiarnan
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