Has anyone here had the experience of joining/introducing themselves to a university LGBT group as bisexual? If you have, was it a positive or negative experience? I'm going to the University of Nottingham in a couple of weeks and am thinking of joining the group there, but am apprehensive of biphobia from gay and lesbian members.
I was thinking about this too!! We'll do it together But seriously, I am interested in hearing the responses...
Me too. People on here always seem to be pretty nice, occasional ignorance accepted. People off-site aren't always so and I'm just a bit nervous because I read one girl's bad experience from joining a group a few years ago.
I haven't joined a group (none on campus) but I wouldn't have a problem at all, and neither would the other lesbians or gays I know. I mean you are the B in LGBT!!! But I know some people can be dicks about it.... I know that's not helpful, sorry >:
Joined a youth group once, and said I was bi. No one was biphobic, but they didn't really take in the information, and apparently kept forgetting I wasn't gay. Yeah, it wasn't a strong bond.
My group isn't university, but it's a local group for LGBT youths from a charity event. All of the people there had seemed very knowledgeable not only about bisexual, but about everything LGBTQ. Many of them identified as queer and a few were non binary.
I did when I was at uni and there were no problems. A couple of differences to me though; I was a mature student and also only joined about half way through my degree (as I only really accepted being bi and came out as such at that point). From what I could see through they were a good group there to support and not criticise. Happy days
I've been a part of my uni's society for over 4 years, and there have been plenty of bisexual members who have been both society members and committee members. I've never encountered any biphobia, nor have there been any complaints. It probably depends on each society and its members. It's certainly worth attending to see if you like the events etc.
It'll likely vary group-to-group. Ours has tons of bi, queer, and trans folks - so if there are bi/transphobic individuals, they've avoided voicing their opinions for fear of exclusion.
Cheers for the replies guys, they have actually made me a little more confident about joining I think I'm going to go for it
AFAIK our uni doesn't have an (official) LGBT group. But then LGBT people are fully accepted around here.* *There might be the occiasional transphobe, but that's quite rare and those people usually get automatically ostrasized.
