National Union of Students LGBT+ Campaign
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NUS LGBT+ Campaign
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| LGBT+ Officer (Open place) | Noorulann Shahid |
| LGBT Officer (Women's Place) | Melantha Chittenden |
| Headquarters | Macadam House, 275 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8QB |
| National affiliation | National Union of Students |
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The National Union of Students LGBT+ Campaign is an LGBT advocacy group that is an autonomous part of the National Union of Students (NUS).
The NUS LGB are mostly nationally recognisable for their high-profile campaigns.
The Donation, Not Discrimination campaign, which carried the tag line "It's time to end the ban", was a campaign to end the National Blood Service's discrimination against men who have had sex with other men, and women who have had sex with those men; the NBS would not allow them to give blood, a policy built upon the claim that gay men have a higher chance of carrying HIV. The campaign believed the lifetime ban to be discriminatory, and that it perpetuated the myth that AIDS is a “gay disease”. It argued that selection criteria should not be based on sexual orientation, but on participation in high-risk behaviour, and that the number of HIV infections through blood transfusion had been reduced in those countries where this is the case. The campaign ended in 2011 when the Department of Health lifted the ban.
This campaign has been running since 2007 and is to help students in further education (FE) who want to set up or develop their LGBT groups. The campaign find that participation and support in FE insututions to be limited or non existent and this is to change this.
The NUS LGBT+ conference is an opportunity for LGBT students activists from across the UK to come together to set the direction for the campaign for the year ahead, to attend workshops and hear speakers, and to network with other LGBT students.
One of the key functions of the conference is to debate, pass policy which forms the basis of NUS LGBT+'s campaigning and to ammed the constitution of the campaign. All changes to policy and the constitution are submitted by LGBT students or societies, up to 5 for each, previous to the conference which are then compiled by the steering committee.
At the conference there is the annual NUS LGBT Awards, which started in 2007, to help promote and support the societies which have done things that are considered to be above and beyond the standard.
Officers and committee members are elected at the annual conference by delegates.
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