Hey char_chick

Awesome idea. I'm from usyd. We have a fairly active lgbt club here. I might be transfering to university of Queensland next year. Don't know for sure. If you want more help  for funding and ideas about what sort of stuff you guys can do...contact our src.

There's a sexuality department you can check out with some contacts.

http://www.src.usyd.edu.au/

And check out our Queer collective. This is kind of old..from around o week.

The Queer Collective

GASP! University begins! You find yourself surrounded by strange people, noises and smells.

You are being leafleted so much you’re thinking of printing ‘Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted’ on your forehead. You wonder: where will your place be amongst all this madness, this action, this carnival hotness? Where do you belong?

The Queer Action Collective (QuAC) is a group for students who identify with the healthy and nutritious LBGTIAPQ alphabet soup (which includes, but is in no way limited to: Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, Intersex, Assexual, Pansexual, Queer and Questioning). All other non-heteronormative sexual and gender identities welcome! QuAC is also there for students who are questioning their own sexual or gender identity and provides information and support, as well as social and political activities (or QuACtivities, as those in the know call them!).

We have weekly discussion groups about everything from coming out, to family, to same-sex marriage. Workshops and forums allow us to invite people to discuss a wide range of ideas and issues, such as people from ACON coming to discuss sexual health, anti-violence projects and queer mental health.

There is also a designated Queer Space on campus, provided by the University of Sydney Union, which is available to all queer (GBLTI etc) and sexuality/gender questioning students. The space provides queer resources, as well as comfy couches and a friendly, queer-phobia free atmosphere.

The queer space is perfect to get to know your fellow queers, keep up to date with queer events (both inside and outside university) and as a respite from the heteronormative world above! (It’s also a nice place to catch up on university readings and queer magazines).

QuAC is funded by the SRC, and has two elected officials who liase with the SRC body. The collective meets weekly to discuss possible political campaigns and social events, and everyone in the collective is welcome to suggest, organise, facilitate, or help out with the campaigns and events that we run. We aim to make QuAC an inclusive and safe space, and do not tolerate sexism, racism, transphobia or any other kind of prejudice and discrimination at our meetings, events or in our spaces.

We hope to run the kind of collective that the queer students of Sydney University need. We aim to cater for all students through a combination of support, low-pressure social activities (like discussion groups and film nights) and parties (usually organised in conjunction with the University of Sydney Union). QuAC also runs political campaigns which heighten the visibility of queer students on campus, to make sure that the existence of queerphobia is not whitewashed over in the post-VSU environment and to challenge the presumption that every uni student identifies as heterosexual.

QU' Events..

In the coming week, QuAC and the Union will be bringing you all manner of fun, games and getting-to-know-you for those of you who think perhaps the queer collective sounds like it could form part of your patchwork of homey-goodness in the middle of this festival of strange people and smells... INCLUDING:

Annual Queer Tea:

Once a year, during O-Week, queer campus veterans, old hacks, and curious new folk gather together for a picnic, a balloon stomp, and, this year, a game of pass the parcel! It is a great opportunity to make a couple of O-Week connections, meet your charming and hospitable queer officers and USU queer convenors and get a guided tour of the queer space.

Queer Film Night:

We shall eat pizza, watch either one or a selection of films, perhaps catch up with those cool folk we met at the Queer Tea, perhaps meet some new ones... all in one of our lovely union-provided rooms. Nice, low-pressure night out with new friends, old friends, people-you-don’t-know-who-will-be new friends.

Mardi Gras: Oh Yes!

Thought that you couldn’t pack any more fun and carnival hotness into one little first week at uni?! Think again! Mardi Gras is on Saturday the 1st and students from many different unis will be marching on a Cross Campus Float. Let us know you’d like to come, meet with us before the event, come with friends or come and make friends, dance your way like crazy down the parade route.But first! First! Drop by our stall and join our E-List! Those are the best ways to keep you up to date with all that is going on this week, and throughout the year. Our QuACtivities don’t end with O-Week, no! There will be Pride Week, Coming Out by Candlelight, graffiti tunnel paintings, Queer Honi, Rockin’ parties, head-spinning discussions, an out-of-state conference and thespian madness during the weeks of Verge.

And if you can’t make it to the stall, or simply have a preference for the virtual, drop your friendly Queer Officers a line to introduce yourself and ask any questions you might have!

We have a new email address for this year: quac08@gmail.com

Michael Deahm 0402633424

Jessica Kean 0422 273 542

I am studying at Bond right now, but I'll be gone after this semester -- was just here for a semester abroad. I was a bit disappointed when I first got here and there wasn't a LGBT club at club sign-on day! Good luck with the future plans!

...and the Gold Coast is not exactly the most gay friendly place in Australia.. I went to Melbourne after two years at the GC and came out straight away when I was there!

Great initiate though and good luck!! :)

holy sh*t I never notice anything on this site (especially when I'm distracted by Jodie Foster.... she was on the GC last week!), so I'm heartily impressed that I spotted this

Bond did used to have a LGBT thingo but it was always a bit underground... lets be honest, we don't exactly go to the most liberal (and i mean that in the traditional sense, not in the John Howard way) uni on the planet! Also pretty much everyone who was involved in running the old group seemed to disappear at the end of 062/063!

I'm a current Bond student and I'm up for helping. I know a fair few gay people on campus as well so I'm sure I can rally the troops!!

Maybe we can manage a pre exam (argh- less than 3 weeks to go!) coffee just so that we don't leave junglequeen with too bad an impression. ;-)

Now, most importantly... who's going to win the prize for best acronym for the group?? We need to beat BASIC, BUMS, BUDS and all the other scary ones.

I'll be in the lawbrary if anyone's looking for me..........

i was one of 062/063 members as well.. but everyone in that group now graduated. at least everyone i knew have.

and yeah definately Bond is not the most liberal uni at all!! and it makes a lot harder to conduct a research on LGB issues as well.

As a matter of fact, i'm conducting a research on sexual orientation and perceived discrimination but i am having a lot of trouble getting LGBs to fill in my survey. Do any of you guys nice enough to help me out here?? it only takes 10 (max 15) minutes. well.. if you're interested, please, please send me email to sakim@student.bond.edu.au

cheers

it'll only go to my head!!!! people have been agreeing with me too much recently ;-)

 

I've emailed you...

also - have you thought about getting student admin to send an all-student email out to see if you get any takers from there?? Adhering to the old rule of "10% of the population" you'd exepct to get at least 200 takers!!!

Big things await BUGSA !