Membership
Interested in joining the Forum? It’s free!
We will need to send you a paper form to sign and return so that we can:
- verify your address by posting you the membership pack there
- be sure that the request wasn’t a prank
- get your signed permission to use your contact details
This does not mean that we will send you a lot of post; we try to keep post to a minimum by sending most information electronically, to keep down cost and conserve natural resources, but sometimes we may have to hold paper postal ballots.
An additional reason is that on occasions we all read emails quickly and not all that carefully, while we read paper forms very carefully before signing them. By sending a paper membership form we try to make sure that prospective members think carefully before giving permission to send them literature that could be opened by others and which identifies them as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. There are those for whom such a disclosure could be disastrous, for example if they are from an intolerant culture, or whose family, flatmates or neighbours are homophobic, or perhaps live in premises owned by a homophobic landlord.
We hope in this way to avoid future problems.
What information do you ask for?
Contact details: Name, Address, Email, a telephone number (optional)
Confirmation that the applicant is over 18; living, working or studying in Bristol; identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender
Type of membership: as an individual, an LGBT organisation* – as a representative – , or an Associate member – a non-lgbt individual supporter or organisation.
*Only LGBT individuals and organisations have a vote. An LGBT individual who also represents an LGBT organisation will carry two votes at an AGM/EGM.
We also send an anonymous monitoring form and a Freepost, Self-addressed envelope.
32 days ago I had a date with lady. It was wonderful,however, at the end of the evening she told me she was a transexual lady. I know I behave badly. 32 days later I regret my behaviour. I knew it was because like all hetrosexual’s I’m ignorant about the LGBT community. I like to consider myself an educated person so I have been doing my research and came across your web site. As I live in Taunton I was hoping that members of your forum might be able help educate me. My research has shown just much the LGBT community is still ridiculed, persecuted and made fun of in our supposed liberal society.
Only through learning and understanding can people like me accept and respect members of LGBT community, so I hope you will accept my application in the good faith it is made.
And yes I regret my lack of judgement every day as the lady concerned was both intelligent, attractive, fun to be with and kind and considerate. How stupid can a man be????
can i have a membership pack please , i would like to join
thanks x