Welcome to the new web pages for the UniS Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Society. For prospective LGBT students who are thinking of coming to Surrey, we hope that you find our website informative, and that you apply to university with an informed insight as to what we have to offer. For current students, we have tried to include all the information you may need online in order to cater for not only out and active students, but also for students who may not be out.

A big thank you to everybody who turned up to Tease this weekend just gone - the next one is Saturday 7th October. This will not only be the first Tease for the new intake of Freshers, but also its one year birthday!

Over the course of the next fortnight the web site will be redeveloped in order to include additional content such as a report from the NUS LGBT Annual Summer Conference as well as a new layout! :-)

If you're not already signed up to the Mailing List, you can do so at the top right of this page to receive e-mails regarding meetings, Tease and any other related events. If you're experiencing any problems receiving these e-mails please contact any of the commitee and let us know!

A quick reminder: the first LGBT meeting for this year will be Tuesday 5th September at 7:00pm in Teaching Block Room 11 - please come along and show your support for the society!

Hope everybody is settling into being back at Uni...
I look forward to seeing you all soon!

Josh
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Firstly apoligies for the website not being updated as regularly as it needed to be! We are aiming to work on this throughout the summer! The new committee has now been elected and taken up responsibility for the society. For those of you that are unaware of who the new members are they are listed below:

President: Kyle Chamberlain
Treasurer: Ben Brennan
Secretary (+ Web master): VACANT (Fromerly Lex)
Representation & Welfare Officer: Joshua Bates

Further information on comittee members can be found by clicking here


Secondly, we'd just like to announce formally that TEASE will be running all over the summer as normal on the FIRST weekend (Saturday Night) of each month. In conjunction with this the University of Surrey bar Chancellors is running a Gay Friendly night EVERY saturday through out the summer, with a DJ and cheap drinks until late. So please come along and make use of this great place to meet and socialise over the summer, especially in the absence of the Elm Tree.
Hope everyone is having a good summer and relaxing!

See you all at the next Tease (SATURDAY 1st JULY!)

Benji
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This is to formally announce the UniS LGBT Annual General Meeting on TUESDAY 28th FEBRUARY 2006 to elect the new committee for the next academic year (2006-2007). There will be reports from the current committee members on what they have done over the past year and what they intend to do with the rest of the time they have left. After which the voting will take place, there are four positions available:

President
Treasurer
Secretary (+ Web master)
Representation & Welfare Officer

It is important that we get as many people to this meetign as possible to ensure a fair and representative election takes place. So please bring as many friends as you can!

Hope to see you at the meetings, please come along and show your support for the society!! Social meetings are Tuesdays at 7pm in TB11.

Benji
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Just a note to say we are starting a new recruitment campaign around campus using these new posters! The aim is that people who do not know about the website or society can see them and check the website in private and get details about meetings!

We need people to help plaster campus with posters, if you have 10 mins free it would be a great help if we could get these great posters put up!

Hope to see you at the meetings, please come along and show your support for the society!! Social meetings are Tuesdays at 7pm in TB11.

Benji
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Just a note to say we hope everyone had a very good christmas and a fantastic New Year

Lots planned this year, so keep checking the website for updates!

Hope to see you at the meetings, please come along and show your support for the society!! Social meetings are Tuesdays at 7pm in TB11

Hope you have a great semester and get the results you want

Benji
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Hope your all having a good summer!

This is my first post so I guess I’d better introduce myself for those who don't know me. I'm Perry, the Representation & Welfare officer for USSU LGBT. I’ve just finished my first year of Chemistry. I live in north London and…………well I guess that’s it.

I am currently writing the 2005/06 LGBT Handbook, This will basically contain information about what the LGBT is, what we plan to do, and generally provide relevant information for LGBT students (particularly, but not exclusively, freshers).

If you have any thoughts about what this handbook should contain, any ideas and comments on what you think would benefit other students (or indeed yourselves) would be greatly appreciated.

If you want any more information on the handbook or anything else, please don't hesitate to mail me at raw-officer@surreylgbt.co.uk

Thank you, I look forward to seeing you all in September,

Perry
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Just to let you know that I was elected to be your President for the next year.

My name is Simon Nutbrown, and for the last year I have been a Sabbatical Officer for the Students' Union. This means that for the last year, I have been one of the 6 elected trustees of the Student's Union here at Surrey, and specifically my role was to run all the societies.
I am therefore in a unique position for the Society, in that I know it's parent institution incredibly well, and I know exactly what works well in a society and what doesn't. As well as the problems from our society, I can learn from the mistakes of others and I'm looking forward to helping this Society reach it's full potential, and providing LGBT students with the level of support they are entitled to.
An LGBT group has so much it can and should do, and I think that we need to look to successful organisations such as Sheffield and Brighton and model ourselves on the best parts of a range of institutions.
This is the part where I want feedback; I want you guys to grill me and let me know what bugs you about LGBT life at Surrey, and what I'm going to do about it.
Questions, Opinions and Rants will all be appreciated (If they're contrusctive!)

Please feel free to contact any of the committee memebers, with comments or suggestions or alternatively, post a message on the LGBT Forum (Link Above)

Simon Nutbrown
LGBT President.

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The New LGBT Committe has been elected and are as follows:

President: Simon Nutbrown
Treasurer: Ben Brennan
Representation & Welfare Officer: Perry Higgs
Secretary: Rita Morias

Further information on comittee members can be found by clicking here

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Tomorrow is our last LGBT night before a new committee is elected to bring the society into another year. As a final event, we are having a night in the Union on Saturday (Cookies and Cream II), which, like all our other Union nights will be fantastic. It is an honour to be asked to do this so close to the end of term, and is a reflection on the increasing success of the society over the last few years.
As a final thing tomorrow, the meeting will be a discussion on certain things, including the Union night itself along with choosing delegates to represent you at the NUS LGB conference in June. Wine and refreshments will be provided, and it would be great if you could join us for this last meeting prior to the AGM.
It has been a privelege to represent you all. I have really enjoyed doing it, and I wish everybody the best for the future.

Chris Ward
President 2004-2005