The National LGBT Officers are elected at the conference. They then decide how and when to carry out the policies passed.
Officers
Lucy Brookes, LGBT Officer (Women's Place)
Daf Adley, LGBT Officer (Open Place)
Key Staff
Geraldine Smith, Liberation, Research and Development Officer
Minda Burgos-Lukes,Liberation, Research and Development Officer
LGBT Committee
The LGBT Committee assist the national LGBT officers in running the campaign. Committee members also have regional responsibilities.
Scott Cuthbertson - LGBT Officer (Open Place)
Claire Anderson - LGBT Officer (Women's Place)
Dylan Williams - Steering Committee (Open Place)
Rob Park - Steering Committee (Open Place)
Nicholas Barnett - Steering Committee (Open Place)
Naomh McKee - Steering Committee (Women's Place)
Sarah Anderson - Steering Committee (Women's Place)
Daf Adley - Open Place Rep
Rich Doughty - Open Place Rep
Jess Saunders - Women's Place Rep
Rose Rickford - Women's Place Rep
James Sanders - Disabled Students' Open Place Rep
Fran Thorburn - Disabled Students' Women's Place Rep
Josh R - Black Students' Open Place Rep
Shiraz Mehra - Black Students' Women's Place Rep
Matt Stanley - Bisexual Open Place Rep
Lucy Brookes - Bisexual Women's Place Rep
Elaine Ner - FE Open Place Rep
Abbie Potts - FE Women's Place Rep
Ruth Pearce - 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.
Brief history of NUS LGBT
1922 First NUS Conference
1971 First motion on gay rights passed at NUS Annual Conference
1982 First NUS ‘Gay Rights’ Conference held in Belfast under the slogan ‘Save Sodomy from Ulster’
1991 The campaign voted to include bisexual students, becoming NUS LGB Campaign
2003 An LGB Unit was established in NUS HQ with 1 part-time staff member
2005 NUS LGB became LGBT when conference voted for the inclusion of trans students