University College of Ripon And York St John

About our Purple Ribbons 

 

This is half of the group that meet every Monday night in the Student Unions lounge at 6:30 p.m.

The picture shown are from last year and the names in the list below are not all in the photos. . .

 

Nick Callaghan (LGB OFFICER) . . . . .

Andrew Rose . . . . .

Andrew Winter (Treasurer '98 - '99) . . . . .

Gillian (Entertainments CO-Officer '98 - '99

Rosie Newlyn (Secretary '97 - '98)

Claire (Entertainments CO-Officer '98 - '99)

Tom . . . 

Emma . . .

 

Michael Freeman (AWOL AMERICA)

Victoria Percival

Keyth Rickards (AWOL Chair '98 - '99)

Karen Taylor (AWOL FRANCE)

 

Other members that unfortunatly don't appear in the photos are . . .

 

Jo Sykes

Angela Benton Browne

New List To BE ANNOUNCED

Graham Taylor (AWOL LEEDS)

 

Other people frequently visit the group but are not members!

 

 

 

Above are the back of our T-shirts modeled by Victoria Percival and Keyth Rickards.

Our Purple Ribbons

Wednesday 11th February until Wednesday 18th February 1998 was Awol LGB Awareness week.

The Entertainment's included in the week can be found on the poster below left

 

Wednesday :- Bar footsie, Dance Zone disco, bar extension and free ribbons

Thursday :- Ales in the Dales (Pub crawl round the Dales)

Friday :- Drag Night (See What's Hot)

Saturday :- St Valentines Ball

Sunday :- Live Ricki Lake Show

Monday :- Quiz Night plus Quiz a Queer

Tuesday :- Drinking and Music games, Doubles £1

Wednesday :- Dance Zone, Membership Drive.

The Purple ribbons (At the time) were a concept that we designed. They represent support for the NUS LGB. They were very popular and were all distributed within the first two days of the week.

 

 

The Ribbons were even popular with members of the Christian Fellowship. They wore the ribbons because it wasn't promoting Homosexuality but infact supporting the eradication of Homophobia on Campus. Although some people turned their noses up to a positive thing. Narrow mindedness is why half this country is in the state it is.

 

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