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[ucdlgbtq]

Check out the orientation week events timetable! We’ve over 28 hours of events, so there’s no excuse not to drop in and say hi!

[ucdlgbtq]

Links recommended at LGBT Language Discussion Club

Here are some links to things discussed at last night's discussion  :)

Sexuality spectrum: http://i.imgur.com/Ndfr8.jpg

Pansexuality: http://pansexualityisperfect.tumblr.com/post/56322773866/zoeilolz-okay-so-i-drew-a-thing-let-me-know 

Intersex:

http://www.autostraddle.com/claudia-is-intersex-lets-talk-about-it-149137/

http://www.autostraddle.com/brought-to-you-by-the-letter-i-why-intersex-politics-matters-to-lgbt-activism-192760/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-GNZ5QA4Q

Gender neutral pronouns: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/sex-neutral-pronouns.html

http://sktagg23.tumblr.com/post/45432882762/riots-over-diets-gender-neutral-pronoun Miscellaneous:  http://pansexualityisperfect.tumblr.com/post/53621135902/to-simplify-i-have-made-five-sets-of-informative#notes

Comics http://www.khaoskomix.com/ http://www.discordcomics.com/

Also check out our glossary for more information and a wide list of terms. Unfortunately, we're still working on populating that list. If there's something in particular you want us to include, please tell us! 

[ucdlgbtq]

Freshers' Week Events!

This week is Freshers' Week, and we're very excited! As well as being in the Freshers' Tent from 9am to 5pm each day, we have a bunch of events lined up for the week:

Monday: 2pm-3pm - Coffee Morning Blue Room, New Student Centre

Tuesday: 1pm-2pm - Coffee Morning Blue Room, New Student Centre 7pm-9.30pm - UCD LGBT Society Launch Night (free wine!) Astra Hall, Old Student Centre

Wednesday: 1pm-2pm - Coffee Morning Blue Room, New Student Centre

7pm - Screening: Finding Nemo Meeting Rooms 1/2/3, Old Student Centre (Go up the stairs in the Atrium, take a left at The Grind, go up more stairs, and the rooms are to your right!)

Thursday: 12pm-1pm - Coffee morning Blue Room, New Student Centre 7pm-9pm - Speed Friending Red Room, New Student Centre (beside the cinema) And we'll be heading out to PrHomo at The Dragon after Speed Friending!

Friday: 1pm-3pm - LGBTQ+ Sport afternoon: Rounders! Astroturf pitch 3, behind the Sports Centre

Keep an eye out for our posters on campus. We'll have information about all of these events at our stand in the Freshers' Tent across from the Student Centre all this week. See you there! :D

[ucdlgbtq]

Behold our excited/sleepy faces at our committee breakfast meeting after we put posters up on campus yesterday morning! 

[ucdlgbtq]

Hello and Welcome!

We just want to post to say a massive HELLO and welcome to all of the new followers we've gotten recently. 

If you see any LGBTQ+ posts you think we should share, our submit and ask boxes are always open :)

[cold-unfeeling-odd]

Someone posted this on our LGBT society's Facebook page. I'm not sure of how much news coverage this has gotten (if any) but I thought I'd share it anyway. It's saddening that there are still people in this day and age who think like this.

[cold-unfeeling-odd]

Another thing I learned tonight.

About half of the LGBT society members use Tumblr :)

[dublinandi]

This week was Rainbow Week at UCD, which means a number of events were organised to raise awareness about issues that LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people have to deal with, and promote acceptance, and protest about the fact that these people do not have equal rights (compared to other people) by law.

To protest against the law which illegalises same-sex marriages in Ireland, the LGBT society organised a Pride March, which means we all walked from the Student Centre towards the UCD lake with rainbow flags, shouting "What do we want? Equal rights! When do we want it? Now!" and then held 3 mock gay weddings. This means we went through a little ceremony where three same-sex couples were "married". It was a lot of fun, see the pictures and video below :)