Name: Emily

Course: Computer Arts 

Year: 3rd

What made you choose to join the AberGays Society?

I wanted to meet other queer people and take part in LGBT+ focused activities.

Can you share a recent event or initiative organized by the AberGays Society that you found particularly impactful or empowering? What were the goals and outcomes of that event?

As well as allowing LGBT+ people to be themselves it is also a safes pace for neurodivergent people. There is an event that gets put on called ‘Yippee presents’ where people with special interests get a space to talk about it. That space let me talk without feeling judged or like people didn’t want to listen. Everyone who goes is so lovely and made me feel able to talk about my interests without judgement.

Can you share a personal story of empowerment or growth that you attribute to your involvement in the AberGays Society?

I felt more able to question my gender identity without judgement. I am still undecided on it however AberGays has given me a space where I won’t be judged no matter what I choose. All the members are lovely and the people I have met through this society have helped me a lot when thinking about my own gender identity.

If you could have a conversation with a famous LGBT+ activist, living or deceased, who would it be and what would you talk about?

Keith Haring. He sadly passed away in 1990 but his art and activism for the awareness of AIDS at the time was and still is so important. I would talk about art how he gets his ideas from, we also share some anti-capitalist views to do with art so I would talk about that as well.