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I've been thinking serously about coming out for several months, years actually, and then changing my mind like a ping-pong ball. And obviously, me being the rare thinking, logical teenager (look at me, tooting my own horn, lol!) was sitting last night doing some research about what information I could give to people I tell to get rid of the heinous and disturbing myths surrounding homosexuality.
I've found some good stuff at http://www.fflag.org , http://www.outproud.org and http://www.triangle.org.za and it made me wonder if anyone just happened to have something stored in the deep dark recesses of their harddrives or favourites lists they could forward to me. The LBGT organisation on campus - lesbigay - is just about going nowhere slowly and seems rather unorganised, uneducated and under-resourced. Lately its degenerated to the point where only desperate gay students go to pick up an easy one-night-stand. Needless to say, they've been no help, despite running around frantically and making vague prommises and tiring themselves out in the process.
Btw, if I were looking to try to whip the place back into a functioning organisation, what would anyone advise?
A truth told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
-William Blake
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Have you looked at the mailcrew site, Dewald?
Of course I've not recently needed what they have to offer but I think it is good stuff.
http://www.themailcrew.com/index.html
Love,
Anthony
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Most of the good information is in the major resource you carry with you: Your head. What type of things to you hope folk would read about? Start form there and you will see that you know most of this stuff already. Your own integrity will carry the day with those who are not prejudiced. Those who are prejudiced will ever be thus.
The LGBT thing is hard. If you ran it, what would you want it to do? What are the right objectives for it? Work on those first. Being a one night stand pickup joint is ok if it is only one facet of the outfit.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Its amazing how simple you can make things in so few sentences. Hmmmm... Lets think aloud, shall we?
Your'e right, of course, that I know most, if not all, the things people whom I or any one else comes out to should know, but my mind isn't always a very structured place, nor am I eloquent under pressure, however, perhaps I should write these things down beforehand? The only things I might not know enough of is the nitty gritty details of things like HIV and other STD's, although I would consider myself well educated in all the basic, necesary facts. Research might still be in order, though.
About LesBiGay...
This is a university organisation, so... Its primary aims should be to use interested and/or involved students and perhaps faculty to improve some aspects of student life, specifically focussing on those isshues relating to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transexual young adults and their friends and family . Not excluding the wider community as well, though.
Obviously, it should offer support in certain important fields -
Information about everything from health isshues, to how to approach coming out to friends and family, how to cope under religious and general homophobic bigotry from different people.
It should attempt to educate the students and community in these isshues, through campaigns intended to spread knowledge.
It should offer contact details for volunteers, gay people who have gone through what they have and these people's friends and families. In other words it should attempt to build a larger support group for all kinds of problems. It should have information on how to contact supportive religious leaders and other organisations/buisnesses like psychiatrists.
It should keep an up to date listing of Gay friendly hotels, restaurants, bars and vacation spots/ recreation, locally and internationally, where possible.
It should keep in contact with other like-minded organisations, and facilitate more contact with other student organisations/co-operation, including legal advice.
It should participate in any debates about any isshues which might affect its members directly or consequently.
It should organise social events to promote awareness, help build support groups with other like-minded members, etc.
It should help in some ways with the education of its members, even if only as a sub-goal.
It should definitely get some budget to help, perhaps even organising donations.
Thats it, from the top of my head. I'm sure I'll think about more things as I go along
A truth told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
-William Blake
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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My aim is always to help folk to help themselves.
I like your list. It's probably imperfect, but that is fine. One of the objectives might be to set the objectives 
http://iomfats.org/resources/ may help with STIs
Now: eloquence under pressure. That interests me. I used not to be. Then I decided it would never be a problem again and took steps to make sure it was not. You are as eloquent as the situation demands. trust me on this. Just remember that a pause for you as speaker appears far longer than it is for a listener.
The group might help members become eloquent. I mean properly, formally. By use of drama and improvisation, for example. Role playing, all sorts of things.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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