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Who we are and what we do

Who we are and what we do

LGBT Committee

NUS LGBT is an autonomous part of NUS. We are a democratic organisation and students who define themselves as LGBT decide our policy at our annual conference. NUS-affiliated students’ unions can send up to four students to this conference and any LGBT student can put forward a motion for discussion. The delegates debate the motions and votes are taken. 

The National LGBT Officers are elected at the conference. They then decide how and when to carry out the policies passed.

Officers

Lucy Brookes- lucy.brookes@nus.org.uk

Daf Adley- daf.adley@nus.org.uk 

Key Staff

Geraldine Smith  geraldine.smith@nus.org.uk
Minda Burgos-Lukes  minda.burgos-lukes@nus.org.uk

LGBT Committee

The LGBT Committee assist the national LGBT officers in running the campaign. Committee members also have regional responsibilities.

Daf Adley - LGBT Officer (Open Place)

Lucy Brookes - LGBT Officer (Women's Place)

Alan Bailey - Open Place Rep
Wes Morrison - Open Place Rep
Rich Doughty - Open Place Rep
Jennifer Daffin - Women's Place Rep

Vicki Baars - Women's Place Rep

Laura Poultney - Women's Place Rep
Emily Bowyer - Disabled Students' Rep
Mas Naina - Black Students' Rep
Sophia  James- Bisexual Rep
Ian Campbell - FE Rep
Harri Weeks - Trans Rep

Recent successes

The NUS LGBT Campaign has been instrumental in changing the lives of LGBT students. We’ve been a key player in the number of campaigns leading to major legislative changes, including:

  • An equal age of consent (2001)
  • Civil partnerships (2005)
  • Gender recognition (2004)
  • Protection against discrimination in goods, facilities and services (2008)

We are the main organisation in the UK campaigning for an end to the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood. Recently the Anthony Nolan Trust has changed its policy on donors so that it now assesses on individual risk rather than membership of the group - a policy NUS has been advocating for several years.

We’ve also helped to protect LGBT asylum seekers in the UK, most recently in the case of Florence and Michael, who have been given indefinite leave to remain in the UK.