LGBTQ+ students, welcome to your digital hub!
This network is for LGBTQ+ students, and includes all students that self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer, and the plus sign exists to include other identities such as non-binary, pansexual, asexual, genderfluid and intersex.
We recognise that someone’s gender and sexuality can be fluid, and encourage this as a safe space for all students who wish to get involved.
We aim to encourage all our LGBTQ+ students to use our resources to come together and bring positive change to LGBTQ+ students University experiences and life beyond University.
Want to find out more about our Student Communities? Sign up to our mailing list here.
Have a question for our team? Contact us at liberation@liverpool.ac.uk
Discover useful resources, support and how to get involved below
1. POSE
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2. It’s a Sin
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3. Wentworth
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4. RuPaul’s Drag Race
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5. Hollywood
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6. Queer Eye
7. Feel Good
8. The Haunting of Bly Manor
9. Trinkets
10. Sex Education
11. Sense8
12. Tales of the City
1. The Boys in the Band
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2. Carol
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3. Love, Simon
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4. The Imitation Game
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5. Disclosure
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6. Happiest Season
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7. A Secret Love
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8. Pride
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9.Booksmart
10.Ammonite
11.Portrait of a Lady on Fire
12.The Death & Life of Marsha P. Johnson
1. All The Things She Said by Daisy Jones
2. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
3. Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
4. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
5. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
6. The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
7. Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
8. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
9.Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
10.Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
- Guild Advice - Free, independent, non-judgemental advice on a range of topics including academic issues, wellbeing, accommodation, and university life:
- Guild LGBTQ+ Support - List of specialist, external resources, organisations and LGBTQ+ groups to help with LGBTQ+ specific concerns, as well as more general issues that LGBTQ+ individuals may be more susceptible to:
- Guide to University of Liverpool Services- This is a comprehensive overview of the services and support the university offers students, including International Advice and Guidance, Money, Advice and Guidance and Disability, Advice and Guidance. It also contains information on how to access Counselling and Mental Health Advisory services:
- University of Liverpool Money Advice and Guidance - Part of the University’s Student Services offering money managing advice, on things like loans, financial support for carers, emergency short term loans and support schemes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic such as quarantine cost support.
Changing your name can be a difficult and lengthy process for many people, and we understand the importance of this, especially for our Transgender students. You are of course under no obligation to inform the University or the Guild of this, if you don’t want to, but the Guild are here to support you through this if you do.
Process:
The University make a distinction between legal name and students’ preferred*names (your chosen name). It is easier to update a preferred name than legal name on student records, without supporting evidence.
The University do provide some information on this page about changing your name. You’ll find on this page that it says you are required to provide legal documentation in order to change your name, but we understand that not all students will have this.
If you want to update your preferred name on University records, we would recommend speaking to a Wellbeing Adviser, who are aware of the processes and can be clear which name (legal or chosen) will be used in which circumstances. For example, your legal name may need to be used on certain documents e.g. degree certificates etc.
If you would like to arrange to speak to a University Well Being Adviser, you can do so here. We at the Guild also have our own advice service, who can support you through this process, if needs be. You can contact them at guildadvice@liv.ac.uk. *Please note: The University uses the term “Preferred name” in much of their guidance, which diminishes a trans person’s chosen name. We have included it here for clarities sake in guiding students through this process, to ensure that this can be made as simple as possible. This in no way reflects the Guild’s views on chosen names, and we do not seek to condone the use of such a phrase in this context.
Process:
The University provide some guidance on changing your gender marker here. You’ll find on this page that it says you are required to provide legal documentation in order to change your gender marker, but we understand that not all students will have this.
If you would like to arrange to speak to a University Well Being Adviser, who will be able to assist you, you can do so here.
The Guild also have our own advice service, who can support you through this process. You can contact them at guildadvice@liv.ac.uk.
We understand the importance of being addressed by your correct pronouns, and the emotional distress and frustration that being incorrectly addressed can cause. We know that it can be very difficult to repeatedly correct staff on your pronouns, when it should be such a simple thing for people to understand. The below guidance is provided by the University to help you update this.
Process:
The University provide some guidance on changing your pronouns here. You’ll find on this page that it says you are required to provide legal documentation in order to change your pronouns, but we understand that not all students will have this.
The University do have a page on general use of pronouns, for example in email signatures, Zoom names and Canvas profiles, which may be of use to some students: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/hr/diversityandequality/events/transvisibilityday2021/pronouns/ If you would like to arrange to speak to a University Well Being Adviser, who will be able to assist you, you can do so here
The Guild also have our own advice service, who can support you through this process. You can contact them at guildadvice@liv.ac.uk.