Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Letter to UCC SU Pres asking fro Support fro Rainbow week

Mr Milling my name is Sonya Donnelly and i am the campaigns officerfor UCC Lesbian Gay Bi Sexual Society this year. The society will beholding its Rainbow week from wed 16th feb to wed 23rd. This week isquite similar to Gay Pride but with more emphasis on gay culture,drama and activisim relating to young LGB students.We will be having speakers on key issues such a gay marraige, adoptionand comming out. We are hoping to raise awareness on campus abouthomophobia and what everyone cant do to prevent this. We will also behaving sexual health health workshops which will follow up on theissues discussed during sexual health week.To top off the week we hope to raise funds for several local charitieswho contribute greatly to the gay community. Such groups would includethe Southern Gay Mens Health Project, who manned a table at SexualHealth week and gave our society a workshop on Sexual Health andLinc, a lesbian resource center.As you can see this will be a very important week for us not only inraising our profile around college but also in the prevention ofhomophobia on campus and showing LGB students both out and those whohave not come out yet that their sexuality is something they can beproud of.Mr Milling i am writing this letter to ask your support of this week.Your support in our IBTS protest really bolstered our campaign and showed that the University is not afraid to shy away from issues suchas this.

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