CANDIDATE’S NAME: ALISON CAFFREY

CURRENT UNION POSITION: WOMEN’S OFFICER, LGBT SOCIETY

MANIFESTO:

I’m going to tell you all about the facts of life:

Homophobia exists in society.
Far right political parties, for example the BNP, typically have homophobic views.
Transgender issues are poorly represented.
Same-sex couples have fewer rights than heterosexual married couples.
Not everybody is able to study in a harassment free environment.
It sounds all doom and gloom, and you might think it irrelevant to your student life but these issues might face you one day.

These facts don’t have to apply to your life. I will use my voting power responsibly to see that your views are represented.

Use your voting power responsibly. Vote for me as your summer conference delegate and maybe we can change those facts of life for the better.








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CANDIDATE’S NAME: JOHN KIRKMAN

CURRENT UNION POSITION: MEN’S OFFICER, LGBT SOCIETY

MANIFESTO:



OK, here is why I think I should be sent as a delegate for the NUS LGB Summer conference:



I have never been!! I think it would be a great experience for me as a new committee member to go and experience a conference and understand better the workings of the NUS LGB
I am your Men’s Officers and part of my role is to encourage political activity within the society. The NUS LGB Summer conference will enable me to understand better current concerns of the NUS LGB movement.
Similarly I will able to help push some of our main political concerns of our society, specifically the issue of t-inclusion rather than exclusion in the LGB campaign, our position regarding the BNP’s rise in our local area and in the UK. A motion I would encourage to be put forward would be the matter of T-inclusion.
I think I would be a good representative for our society and University, seeing as I am opinionated, eloquent and beautiful.


Vote For ME!!!!!








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CANDIDATE’S NAME: PETER LEWIS

CURRENT UNION POSITION: PRESIDENT, LGBT SOCIETY

MANIFESTO:



Previous positions: Secretary, LGB Society

Union Council Engineering Rep



There are a number of reasons why I wish to go to the NUS LGB Summer Conference, not least of which is the name of the event. We recently added a ‘T’ to our own society name, and a motion of the conference that I’m very interested in is updating accordingly on a national level. Trans issues are increasingly important to us.



I attended last year’s summer conference and this year’s Leeds Uni Societies Assembly, but still think I can benefit from this conference, as well as contributing well to the various caucuses & forums.



I also have a large number of links with other uni LGB(T)s and hope to use this great opportunity to further this work.



‘Yours in Pride’



Peter Lewis








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CANDIDATE’S NAME: COLIN MICHEL

CURRENT UNION POSITION:

MANIFESTO:



My postgraduate work is in Cultural Theory, which necessarily involves interrogation and critique of normative constructions of gender, sex and sexuality. My academic interests concern queer ethics, autobiography, history, performativity and popular culture. I have previously served two years as secretary of the LGBT group at Liverpool University, where I was responsible for campaigns, social activities, promotion and welfare. As a gay man with considerable focus upon cultural politics, sexuality and student involvement, I feel I would be an asset to this conference.








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CANDIDATE’S NAME: DAVID PURCELL

CURRENT UNION POSITION: TREASURER, LGBT SOCIETY

MANIFESTO



When I attended last year's summer conference, I participated in a wide variety of activities over the weekend, from making informed choices on campaign policy to adding my support to the ongoing fight against the political extreme right in the UK. I also now understand exactly how the conference works, and will make as much use as possible of my voting and speaking rights.



I was also the only delegate from our union last year to produce any formal feedback from the weekend. This work justified the creation of the post of international students' officer on our LGBT committee; this is now my second year on that committee.



Vote for me as the person to best represent your views on a national level. I have a strong interest in student politics and I will make myself available at coffee hour to listen to the things which matter to you!








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CANDIDATE’S NAME: PAUL BLOOMFIELD

CURRENT UNION POSITION:

MANIFESTO



Social Secretary – LUU LGB 2003/4



I’m running for a position to attend the NUS LGB Summer Conference. I have already been to the NUS Winter Conference 2003/4 and understand the significance and importance of representing the views of our own LGBT, on a national level.



As a former committee member, I think everyone knows how much I think of, and feel for, the LGBT and how much I have put into helping make our society what it is today. As most of you probably know I will be in Moscow during ‘04/’05 but don’t think that’s the end of me. I’ll still be involved and think this would be the perfect opportunity for me to continue to work with the LGBT until they pack me off onto an airplane and send me out of civilisation.



I’m also very interested in attending the discussions for LGBT people with faith, as I as though I am able to accurately understand people in this position. I do still think, however, that I am in need of more knowledge if I am to understand people with a different faith from my own. In this way I can accurately empathise and help more effectively once back in Leeds, doing my “thang”!



Please vote for me and let me continue to help for the long-haul – (until 2008 – yes that long). Thanks guys.



Paulie x