A newly-formed group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students at MidKent College’s Maidstone Campus promoted this year’s IDaHO (International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia), held across the globe last month.
The students spent an entire week in t-shirts bearing the slogan: ‘Some people are Gay. Get over it’. They also manned an information stand in the college’s student social zone. The stand, which aimed to raise awareness of LGBT issues, as well as the college’s LGBT group, had been organised by travel and tourism student Kim Still. “I think it’s important that as students we get involved in events like this,” said the 19 year old from Maidstone. “When we ran celebrations for this year’s LGBT History Month in February, one student told me he hadn’t realised there were gay people at the college. I couldn’t believe it. There are thousands of students at this site alone; we must have dozens of gay, bisexual and transgender students.
“I think that making the LGBT group visible in this way will do a lot to raise awareness and promote tolerance among other students - and we’ve managed to get our straight, as well as our gay and bisexual friends involved. It’s been a great success.”
The popular group, which aims to support LGBT students across the entire campus, also hopes to attend this year’s Pride festival in Brighton.
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