Panel 3: 1990 to 1999

A look at the third panel of the PINK BRICK exhibition

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• Guild Handbook front cover pictorially showing the Guild campaigns including LGBT, Anti-Fascism and Sexual Health - (1993)
• Beat the Bigots poster - NUS LGB Age of Consent campaign poster (c. 1994 - 2000)
• '30 Years Queer' - NUS campaign poster (1999)

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• Protest over ‘no gay’ Navy article from the - Guild Gazette; LGB Society Campaign (December 1991)
• Sphinx magazine cover and The Age of Consent article - (1993)
• LGB Committee 1993 - (1993)
• LGB Committee 1995 - (1995)
• Liverpool University Anti Fascist Society protest - (1993)
• NUS Presidential candidates, including Stephen Twigg, canvassing at the University of Liverpool - (1990)
• Red Ribbons: a symbol of AIDS in California, it quickly became the global symbol of AIDS awareness - (1991)

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• Anti-discrimination article reporting on the Guild Council passing a comprehensive policy on HIV/AIDS and the Council passing a motion banning the armed forces from recruiting on campus - Guild Gazette (13 March 1992)
• Speak Out article reporting on the Annual General Meeting where a motion to ban the armed forces from recruiting at  the Freshers' Fair failed - Guild Gazette (15 May 1992)
• Students elect gay leader article reporting that the NUS elected its first openly gay President, Stephen Twigg - The Guardian (4 April 1990)
• Medics and LGBT clash at Guild article reporting on a LGB protest against the Medical Society’s ‘Smoker’ concert for being misogynist and homophobic - Guild Gazette
• Personal Recollections by Paul Amann

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Timeline

• 1991: November – The Guild establishes a HIV Working Group
• 1992: February – The Guild of Students approved its first Policy on HIV/AIDS. It also approved a boycott of the Armed Forces from using Guild facilities. The boycott is later overturned by the Annual General Meeting.
• 1993: February – Paul Amann launches an awareness campaign about the inequality in the age of consent
• 1994: February – Parliament voted to reduce the age of consent from 21 to 18. There is still a 2 year difference between gay and straight people.
• 1999: The government lifts the bans on gay people serving in the Military. June – The LGB Committee becomes the LGBT Committee