Joining your local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) society can be one of the best things you do as an LGBT student at university or college. LGBT societies vary from place to place, but will usually put on social events, provide welfare services and campaign on local and national issues. Most importantly, they provide an opportunity for LGBT students to be themselves.
NUS LGBT Campaign is an organisation that supports students’ union LGBT societies and represents the interests of LGBT students nationally. We provide training, advice and support to LGBT groups in students’ unions. We campaign on issues that affect the LGBT community, such as access to a fair education, LGBT asylum seekers and healthcare issues. We worked with allies to coordinate students’ involvement in campaigns to secure legal protection from discrimination for LGBT employees, and in goods and services provision.
We have those protections now, but when joining the world of work, it is still vitally important to feel included and accepted. This guide champions the good practice of employers across the country who strive to make their workplaces fully inclusive of LGBT people. NUS LGBT Campaign is proud to support the Starting Out careers guide, not only because the most welcome places for LGBT people to work will appear in these pages, but also because its very existence encourages other organisations to do more for their LGBT employees.
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