Oxford University LGBTSoc

Welcome from the President
Amy Bellamy

Firstly, a very warm welcome to current students and freshers alike! The aim of this website is to provide all LGBT students with everything you need to know about what it's like to be gay in Oxford. Our society is one of the most established in the University with our mailing list reaching over 800 current students and membership exceeding 200.

The LGBT Society is having its 40th Anniversary in 2009 (Oxford was one of the first UK Universities to have an LGBT Society), so watch out for tons of special events coming up to celebrate all the people past and present who have worked hard to make our community what it is today – accepted, successful and thriving. So far, we've had a very successful Green Carnation Ball in Hillary term... watch this space for more events!

I very much look forward to meeting all of you, and should anyone have any questions, do drop me a line on president@lgbsoc.com and I will get back to you. Similarly, any suggestions or requests for events that you would like to see happen would be gratefully received.

LGBTSoc at Oxford

LGBTSoc at Oxford has two primary roles – a welfare role and a social role.

For the social side, we organise a weekly drinks night on a Tuesday (usually in a room at one of the central colleges, but occasionally at one of the gay pubs in Oxford). At these we offer extremely cheap drinks – non-alcoholic and alcoholic alike – and a chance to meet and make friends with the many other Ls, Gs, Bs and Ts in the University, including the committee, who run the bar. You may even, if you’re lucky, find one or two friendly heteros in attendance!

Tuesday night drinks are followed every week by Poptarts!, the weekly gay night at BabyLove Bar on King Edward Street (just off the High Street).

As well as this, we organise Pizza and Wine evenings two or three times a term, usually on a Thursday, which offer a more chilled-out environment than Tuesday night drinks.

For the welfare side, we have four welfare reps who are there to help you with any issues or questions that you have. They are always contactable by email and will be willing to meet with you if you so wish. They also attend all the social events, and organise their own welfare events – in the past we have had Welfare Teas (LGBTeas, as it were!) and Welfare Picnics… The fourwelfare reps are:

Male Welfare
Female Welfare
Graduate Welfare
Trans Rep

See the Welfare Page for ways to contact the welfare reps.

You should check out the Termcard to see these and any other exciting events the fabulous committee have organised for you… but until you do, just remember:

Tuesday – 8pm – Weekly Drinks
Thursday – 8pm – Pizza and Wine (not every week though…)

Problems? Suggestions?

If you experience any problems with this website, or have any suggestions, please get in contact with our Computing Officer (computing@lgbsoc.com).