L G B T   C a m p u s   O r g a n i z i n g

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Apologize or scold your readers, or

a few major national lgbt publications,

make the meeting sound boring.

too;

Appendix A, pp 39 40, contains some

sample flyers.

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Subscribe to some lgbt user groups or

bulletin boards on the Internet (See

Inform

Chapter 4,  Basic Skills,  on page 79,

for tips on Electronic Organizing).

This is a great source of up to date

Continuously get useful information to

information.  It is also a great way to

lgbt people on your campus.  This infor 

get timely answers to questions you

mation may include:  what your organi 

might have;

zation is and what it does, what someone

should do if they get harassed, communi 

ty resources   locations of the good

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Collect information about what s hap 

pening for lgbt people on other cam 

places to go to dance, hang out, have fun,

puses;

good doctors to see at the campus health

services, who in the administration is

sympathetic to lgbt issues, what lgbt

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Collect information about what other

organizations/groups are in the area,

agencies have to offer the lgbt com 

good courses/professors, etc.

munity; and

Ways to Inform LGBT Folks 

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Collect names and addresses of inter 

ested folks on campus for a confiden 

Collect Information

tial mailing list.

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Ask students about their experiences

with various support agencies on cam 

Share Information

pus and in the local community;

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Create a monthly or quarterly news 

record this information;

letter (see samples from the Universi 

ty of Pennsylvania and UMass,

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Ask students what information and

Amherst, Appendix B, pp 41 54);

skills they have to share; record this

information;

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Get a bulletin board in a central loca 

tion (ideally under glass), and update

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Ask college administrators for copies

it monthly;

of regulations and policies concerning

homophobic harassment and discrimi 

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Invite in guest speakers, show films

nation, AIDS, domestic partnership,

and videos, sponsor workshops;

ROTC, etc.;

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Start a lending library, ask for dona 

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Talk to your reference librarian; see if

tions, lend out books, newspapers,

the library is open to setting up a lgbt

magazines;

Campus Archive;

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Get your school library and bookstore

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Subscribe to local lgbt publications,

to start carrying more lesbian, gay,

and clip and save articles of interest to

bisexual, and transgender materials;

the campus community.  Subscribe to

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