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Bristol LGB Forum The Create Centre Smeaton Road Bristol BS1 6XN Charity No. 1098085 0017 353 4621 info@bristol-lgb-forum.org.uk www.bristol-lgb-forum.org.uk Funded by Bristol City Council Equality and Community Cohesion The Bristol Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Forum is a Registered Charity, established in October 1994 to challenge the discrimination that lesbian, gay and bisexual people experience. Membership is free and the only conditions are that applicants: • are over 18 att he time of applying • identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, whatever their gender identity • live, work or study in Greater Bristol The Forum is driven by its membership governed by a Management Commitee and employs two parttime members of staff: the Development Worker and the Administrator. Our mission is to: • campaign on issues that affect LGB people, locally and nationally • promote best practice on issues of equality, diversity and Inclusion • dispel myths and challenge preconceptions about LGB people • liaise with other LGB organisations, regionally and nationally • be a first point of contact for individuals and organisations looking for information about Bristol's LGB community
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Saturday 16th October 2010 - Annual General Meeting (inquorate)
the issue of gender-labels. A member clarified the fact that gender labels can be useful in preventing a gender-bias entering into the Organisation. A discussion ensued on whether it might be helpful to allocate specific responsibilities to individual Trustees for each sector of our Communities: L, G, B and T. It was pointed out that this may not be helpful, but, instead, a wording be found that sets out the need to reflect diversity in its MC roles. Alternatively, it may be preferable to use a negative wording, prescribing that the MC cannot be composed of one single sector. A proposal was tabled, to aggregate the previous 4: that the Forum conduct a thorough review the Constitution and take it to the Law Centre, looking at issues, including, but not exclusively: a. Lowering the membership minimum age to 17 b. Allowing proxy votes c. Allowing postal ballots d. Reducing the AGM quorum to 10 or 5% of the memebrship e. Expanding the geographilcal area to cover Great Bristol, including South Glos. N. Somerset and B&NES At the moment lesbian and gay rights
Fewer members than the required 10% of the membership - which now stands at over 300 - attended the AGM, so an the Management Committee held an emergency meeting was, to elect cooptees to the new MC and replace three Trustees who stood down.
Emergency MC Meeting.
Logan Blackburn, Stripe Issit and Lucas Abedecian stood down from the MC, by email. New co-optees were elected unanimously, they are: Anna Rutherford, Emily Bennewith and Daniel Carpenter. Alan Palmer, Co-chair, thanked outgoing truestees for their service to eth Forum and welcomed new Co-optees. The AGM was then rescheduled no sooner than 3 week laters, and the proposed changes the Constitution rescheduled for voting at thae AGM,: 1) That the Forum adds extend toT include Trans people 2) That the Forum change its name to reflect this new brief 3) That gender label be removed from the Co-chairs' titles 4) That Trustees stand for a minimum of 2 years The Chair offered some background to 1
are very similar, but Trans people's rights may differ, so it would be useful to represent the LGBT communities to ensure that the equality agenda progress and we understand the equalisation of legislation. Irrespective of the explicit changes to our mission, objects and name, the Forum has pushed for LGBT rights, equality, diversity and inclusion. The Co-chair addressed those Members who remained and explained the situation, explaining the actions the MC had taken and advising them that the AGM will be re-convened to pass the above motions. The Chair thanked Members and expressed the hope that members did not feel their day was wasted and that the Gender Identity meeting with Gendered Intelligence was useful and informative. Finally, the Chair asked for final comments. One new member expressed her pleasure at seeing the T issue finally reaching this stage and begged not to attend a 4th AGM on this issue. She additionally challenged the lack of engagement from the membership. The Chair responded by explaining that the MC has been working on questioning the way it engages, the agenda it is pursuing and its relevance to its membership. A suggestion from the floor that, as the the quorum drifted during the course of the evening, perhaps the membership list should be verified. Another member's comment was that the AGM should be less about the Constitution and more about the work of the Forum during the past year. The Chair replied by addressing the For-
um's need to do some work on other challenges, like the Census's failure to record LGBT population and the ONS Survey, that returned less than 1.5% LGB UK residents. The Census is about to be abolished (the 2011 will be the last one) but it could be s springboard to campaign on counting LGBT people to prevent our being marginalised, by using flawed data capture and statistical methodologies. It was pointed out that there is a National focus on this, as this is not a local issue. Reply that we could start that campaign, through a Facebook campaign, perhaps. The HIV memorial was also raised, in conjunction with THT, as a human issue, not unique but relevant to Bristol. The Chair acknowledged the invaluable contribution of Pride to the Bristol LGBT community and how that has emerged as a new, sustainable Pride. Public support for Pride came to 3.5K and this will not be repeated next year. 16th July is next year's date for Pride but a larger, stronger, more cohesive effort will be needed. Looking at other Cities of the same size that find it hard to hold Pride Festivals and twinning with them. The Forum plans to also organise an IDAHO day and remind people that LGBT people around the world are still dying.
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Inquorate AGM : what does it mean for the Forum? The failure by the October Annual General Meeting to reach a quorum is an important signal to the Forum, but interpreting is not as easy as might appear at first glance. Some members present commented "Well, that's the LGBT community in Bristol for you: lazy, superficial and self足 centred!".
list. Forum membership is for life and often the first inkling we have that someone has moved is when we get back post from a mailout, but not all new tenants bother and many may just go into the paper recycling bin.
Someone answered "That's true of most people, these days, not just LGBTs, people just can't be bothered with anything they can't do online or by text message!".
Others said "That goes to show that the Forum is not engaging with its constituency!" and "Maybe members voted with their feet on the Trans inclusion, not wanting to be seen to oppose it, maybe they simply decided to stay away?"
One member asked "What other evenylt was on that might have been more important or attractive than going to a meeting?" ( "Sale at Primark?" was the tongue-in-cheek reply) .
Another, who makes the effort to attend every year, asked the same question she asked in 2009: "Where are the members?"
One problem might be our memebrship
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So... what do we do about that? The Forum does not have the funds or staff capacity to make 300 'phonecalls, besides.. not all members supplied 'phone numbers. Emails may come back as undeliverable, but some may simply go to email addresses that are no longer in use. Somone suggested that we have a timelimited membership that requires renewal, say 2-3 years, and that automatically lapses if it is not renewed. This option is no guarantee of a solution and it too begs a number of questions: 'Should we invite members to renew by email?'; 'Will people bother?'; 'What if they don't? What would THAT mean?'; 'What if we find ourselves with just the 25 or so members who bothered to attend this year?'. This apparent disengagement is as likely to be a symptom of LGBT Bristol's perception that we have 'arrived' at equality, that most in our communitites are 'happy with our lot'. It could also be that our membership is
Bri stol N ews
In recent years the world has been moving to the right, intolerance and homophobia have found fertile ground in a whole range of fundamentalist circles which have been expanding, recruiting and exporting their hate theologies to Countries like Uganda, Indonesia, Hungary etc. The Forum was founded to secure and preserve LGBT rights, but without its members, the Forum ceases to exist.
voting with its feet and telling us that the work of the Forum is becoming irrelevant to the lives and concerns of its membership. The problem is that 300 members = 300 reasons and opinions; unfortunately, try as it may, to date the Forum has been unable to recruit a single mind -eader to its Management Committee. At this juncture the best option is to put the ball in our members' court and call a Plenary Meeting, where all members are required to attend or send a postal vote, or else loose their membership, asking those basic questions that will shape the next decade: 'What do YOU want/need?', 'Are YOU willing to participate?', 'Do YOU care what happen to the Forum?"' Before answering those questions, though, we should point out some historical realities. In Gernany, during the 1920s, cities like Berlin had the largest number of gay clubs and venues ever... only a few years later they were all closed down and LGBT people were interned in concentration camps from which they were not released even after the liberation, because heomosexuality remained illegal and they had to serve out their 'sentences'. In other words: do not take today's rights and freedoms for granted, because equality and diversity are like muscles: if you do not use them you may lose them.
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At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in November 2008 the LGB Forum made a commitment to explore the feasibility and appropriateness of developing to include transgender people as members of the LGB Forum. Essentially should we become the Bristol LGBT Forum?
to the Constitution, a voting slip and information concerning the pros and cons associated with the change. This open event will be followed by an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) called by the Management Committee where we will put the change of constitution to a vote. At the EGM a successful ballot would need to be (67%) of all votes cast in favour of the changes.
Informal discussions took place during 2009 and Sarah, the Forums Development Worker, attended excellent initial training delivered by Gendered Intelligence (www.genderedintelligence.co.uk ). The Forum also began to creante dialogue with existing transgender members around this topic and to specifically develop links with transgender support and social groups.
If this is a topic that matters to you, please contact me, I am very interested in hearing all opinions and would be delighted if any members would like to join me on the Transformation Working Group. Logan Blackburn, Former Co-Chair and Transformation Working Group Convenor
At the AGM in October 2009 the Management Committee passed a motion committing the Bristol LGB Forum to a change in name and constitution should the membership agree. This decision is up to you. This is your Forum created by everything that you all put into it. The Forum has started planning an open event for June 2010, co-delivered with Gendered Intelligence, to explore the topic and hopefully answer the many questions that arise over gender issues. All members will receive a copy of the proposed changes
Have uour say: Vote on this issue at the AGM on Tuesday, 22nd January 20100, 4:00 - 5:30pm @ The Council House! 5
sit elegans, personae dignitatis esse negent.
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[2] Contra quos omnis dicendum breviter existimo. Quamquam philosophiae quidem vituperatoribus satis responsum est eo libro, quo a nobis philosophia defensa et collaudata est, cum esset accusata et vituperata ab Hortensio. qui liber cum et tibi probatus videretur et iis, quos ego posse iudicare arbitrarer, plura suscepi veritus ne movere hominum studia viderer, retinere non posse. Qui autem, si maxime hoc placeat, moderatius tamen id volunt fieri, difficilem quandam temperantiam postulant in eo, quod semel admissum coerceri reprimique non potest, ut propemodum iustioribus utamur illis, qui omnino avocent a philosophia, quam his, qui rebus infinitis modum constituant in reque eo meliore, quo maior sit, mediocritatem desiderent.
DE FINIBUS BONORVM ET M ALORVM . Marcus Tullius Cicero.
[1] Non eram nescius, Brute, cum, quae summis ingeniis exquisitaque doctrina philosophi Graeco sermone tractavissent, ea Latinis litteris mandaremus, fore ut hic noster labor in varias reprehensiones incurreret. nam quibusdam, et iis quidem non admodum indoctis, totum hoc displicet philosophari. quidam autem non tam id reprehendunt, si remissius agatur, sed tantum studium tamque multam operam ponendam in eo non arbitrantur. erunt etiam, et ii quidem eruditi Graecis litteris, contemnentes Latinas, qui se dicant in Graecis legendis operam malle consumere. postremo aliquos futuros suspicor, qui me ad alias litteras vocent, genus hoc scribendi, etsi
[3] Sive enim ad sapientiam perveniri potest, non paranda nobis solum ea, sed fruenda etiam [sapientia] est; sive hoc difficile est, tamen nec modus est ullus investigandi veri, nisi inveneris, et quaerendi defatigatio turpis est, cum id, quod quaeritur, sit pulcherrimum. etenim si delectamur, cum scribimus, quis est tam invidus, qui ab eo nos abducat? sin laboramus, quis est, qui alienae modum statuat industriae? nam 6
ut Terentianus Chremes non inhumanus, qui novum vicinum non vult 'fodere aut arare aut aliquid ferre denique' -- non enim illum ab industria, sed ab inliberali labore deterret --, sic isti curiosi, quos offendit noster minime nobis iniucundus labor.
aut Andriam Terentii quam utramque Menandri legam? [5] A quibus tantum dissentio, ut, cum Sophocles vel optime scripserit Electram, tamen male conversam Atilii mihi legendam putem, de quo Lucilius: 'ferreum scriptorem', verum, opinor, scriptorem tamen, ut legendus sit. rudem enim esse omnino in nostris poetis aut inertissimae segnitiae est aut fastidii delicatissimi. mihi quidem nulli satis eruditi videntur, quibus nostra ignota sunt. an 'Utinam ne in nemore . . .' nihilo minus legimus quam hoc idem Graecum, quae autem de bene beateque vivendo a Platone disputata sunt, haec explicari non placebit Latine?
[4] Iis igitur est difficilius satis facere, qui se Latina scripta dicunt contemnere. in quibus hoc primum est in quo admirer, cur in gravissimis rebus non delectet eos sermo patrius, cum idem fabellas Latinas ad verbum e Graecis expressas non inviti legant. quis enim tam inimicus paene nomini Romano est, qui Ennii Medeam aut Antiopam Pacuvii spernat aut reiciat, quod se isdem Euripidis fabulis delectari dicat, Latinas litteras oderit?
[6] Quid? si nos non interpretum fungimur munere, sed tuemur ea, quae dicta sunt ab iis quos probamus, eisque
Synephebos ego, inquit, potius Caecilii
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quodsi Graeci leguntur a Graecis isdem de rebus alia ratione compositis, quid est, cur nostri a nostris non legantur? [7] Quamquam, si plane sic verterem Platonem aut Aristotelem, ut verterunt nostri poetae fabulas, male, credo, mererer de meis civibus, si ad eorum cognitionem divina illa ingenia transferrem. sed id neque feci adhuc nec mihi tamen, ne faciam, interdictum puto. locos quidem quosdam, si videbitur, transferam, et maxime ab iis, quos modo nominavi, cum inciderit, ut id apte fieri possit, ut ab Homero Ennius, Afranius a Menandro solet. Nec vero, ut noster Lucilius, recusabo, quo minus omnes mea legant. utinam esset ille Persius, Scipio vero et Rutilius multo etiam magis, quorum ille iudicium reformidans Tarentinis ait se et Consentinis et Siculis scribere. facete is quidem, sicut alia; sed neque tam docti tum erant, ad quorum iudicium elaboraret, et sunt illius scripta leviora, ut urbanitas summa appareat, doctrina mediocris.
nostrum iudicium et nostrum scribendi ordinem adiungimus, quid habent, cur Graeca anteponant iis, quae et splendide dicta sint neque sint conversa de Graecis? nam si dicent ab illis has res esse tractatas, ne ipsos quidem Graecos est cur tam multos legant, quam legendi sunt. quid enim est a Chrysippo praetermissum in Stoicis? legimus tamen Diogenem, Antipatrum, Mnesarchum, Panaetium, multos alios in primisque familiarem nostrum Posidonium. quid? Theophrastus mediocriterne delectat, cum tractat locos ab Aristotele ante tractatos? quid? Epicurei num desistunt de isdem, de quibus et ab Epicuro scriptum est et ab antiquis, ad arbitrium suum scribere? 8
[8] Ego autem quem timeam lectorem, cum ad te ne Graecis quidem cedentem in philosophia audeam scribere? quamquam a te ipso id quidem facio provocatus gratissimo mihi libro, quem ad me de virtute misisti. Sed ex eo credo quibusdam usu venire; ut abhorreant a Latinis, quod inciderint in inculta quaedam et horrida, de malis Graecis Latine scripta deterius. quibus ego assentior, dum modo de isdem rebus ne Graecos quidem legendos putent. res vero bonas verbis electis graviter ornateque dictas quis non legat? nisi qui se plane Graecum dici velit, ut a Scaevola est praetore salutatus Athenis Albucius.
Athenis, id quod maluisti, te, cum ad me accedis, saluto: 'chaere,' inquam, 'Tite!' lictores, turma omnis chorusque: 'chaere, Tite!' hinc hostis mi Albucius, hinc inimicus. [10] Sed iure Mucius. ego autem mirari [satis] non queo unde hoc sit tam insolens domesticarum rerum fastidium. non est omnino hic docendi locus; sed ita sentio et saepe disserui, Latinam linguam non modo non inopem, ut vulgo putarent, sed locupletiorem etiam esse quam Graecam. quando enim nobis, vel dicam aut oratoribus bonis aut poetis, postea quidem quam fuit quem imitarentur, ullus orationis vel copiosae vel elegantis ornatus defuit? Ego vero, quoniam forensibus operis, laboribus, periculis non deseruisse mihi videor praesidium, in quo a populo Romano locatus sum, debeo profecto, quantumcumque possum, in eo quoque elaborare, ut sint opera, studio, labore meo doctiores cives mei, nec cum istis tantopere pugnare, qui Graeca legere malint, modo legant illa ipsa, ne simulent, et iis servire, qui vel utrisque litteris uti velint vel, si suas habent, illas
[9] Quem quidem locum comit multa venustate et omni sale idem Lucilius, apud quem praeclare Scaevola: Graecum te, Albuci, quam Romanum atque Sabinum municipem Ponti, Tritani, centurionum, praeclarorum hominum ac primorum signiferumque, maluisti dici.
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non magnopere desiderent. [11] Qui autem alia malunt scribi a nobis, aequi esse debent, quod et scripta multa sunt, sic ut plura nemini e nostris, et scribentur fortasse plura, si vita suppetet; et tamen, qui diligenter haec, quae de philosophia litteris mandamus, legere assueverit, iudicabit nulla ad legendum his esse potiora. quid est enim in vita tantopere quaerendum quam cum omnia in philosophia, tum id, quod his libris quaeritur, qui sit finis, quid extremum, quid ultimum, quo sint omnia bene vivendi recteque faciendi consilia referenda, quid sequatur natura ut summum ex rebus expetendis, quid fugiat ut extremum malorum? qua de re cum sit inter doctissimos summa dissensio, quis alienum putet eius esse dignitatis, quam mihi quisque tribuat, quid in omni munere vitae optimum et verissimum sit, exquirere?
omnem quaestionem de finibus bonorum et malorum fere a nobis explicatam esse his litteris arbitramur, in quibus, quantum potuimus, non modo quid nobis probaretur, sed etiam quid a singulis philosophiae disciplinis diceretur, persecuti sumus.
[12] An, partus ancillae sitne in fructu habendus, disseretur inter principes civitatis, P. Scaevolam M'.que Manilium, ab iisque M. Brutus dissentiet -- quod et acutum genus est et ad usus civium non inutile, nosque ea scripta reliquaque eiusdem generis et legimus libenter et legemus --, haec, quae vitam omnem continent, neglegentur? nam, ut sint illa vendibiliora, haec uberiora certe sunt. quamquam id quidem licebit iis existimare, qui legerint. nos autem hanc
[13] Ut autem a facillimis ordiamur, prima veniat in medium Epicuri ratio, quae plerisque notissima est. quam a nobis sic intelleges eitam, ut ab ipsis, qui eam disciplinam probant, non soleat accuratius explicari; verum enim invenire volumus, non tamquam adversarium aliquem convincere. accurate autem quondam a L. Torquato, homine omni doctrina erudito, defensa 10
est Epicuri sententia de voluptate, a meque ei responsum, cum C. Triarius, in primis gravis et doctus adolescens, ei disputationi interesset.
ob rem tandem, inquit, non satisfacit? te enim iudicem aequum puto, modo quae dicat ille bene noris. [16] Nisi mihi Phaedrum, inquam, tu mentitum aut Zenonem putas, quorum utrumque audivi, cum mihi nihil sane praeter sedulitatem probarent, omnes mihi Epicuri sententiae satis notae sunt. atque eos, quos nominavi, cum Attico nostro frequenter audivi, cum miraretur ille quidem utrumque, Phaedrum autem etiam amaret, cotidieque inter nos ea, quae audiebamus, conferebamus, neque erat umquam controversia, quid
[14] Nam cum ad me in Cumanum salutandi causa uterque venisset, pauca primo inter nos de litteris, quarum summum erat in utroque studium, deinde Torquatus: Quoniam nacti te, inquit, sumus aliquando otiosum, certe audiam, quid sit, quod Epicurum nostrum non tu quidem oderis, ut fere faciunt, qui ab eo dissentiunt, sed certe non probes, eum quem ego arbitror unum vidisse verum maximisque erroribus animos hominum liberavisse et omnia tradidisse, quae pertinerent ad bene beateque vivendum. sed existimo te, sicut nostrum Triarium, minus ab eo delectari, quod ista Platonis, Aristoteli, Theophrasti orationis ornamenta neglexerit. nam illud quidem adduci vix possum, ut ea, quae senserit ille, tibi non vera videantur. [15] Vide, quantum, inquam, fallare, Torquate. oratio me istius philosophi non offendit; nam et complectitur verbis, quod vult, et dicit plane, quod intellegam; et tamen ego a philosopho, si afferat eloquentiam, non asperner, si non habeat, non admodum flagitem. re mihi non aeque satisfacit, et quidem locis pluribus. sed quot homines, tot sententiae; falli igitur possumus. Quam
ego intellegerem, sed quid probarem. [17] Quid igitur est? inquit; audire enim cupio, quid non probes. Principio, inquam, in physicis, quibus maxime gloriatur, primum totus est alienus. 11
corporum motum.
Democritea dicit perpauca mutans, sed ita, ut ea, quae corrigere vult, mihi quidem depravare videatur. ille atomos quas appellat, id est corpora individua propter soliditatem, censet in infinito inani, in quo nihil nec summum nec infimum nec medium nec ultimum nec extremum sit, ita ferri, ut concursionibus inter se cohaerescant, ex quo efficiantur ea, quae sint quaeque cernantur, omnia, eumque motum atomorum nullo a principio, sed ex aeterno tempore intellegi convenire.
[19] Deinde ibidem homo acutus, cum illud ocurreret, si omnia deorsus e regione ferrentur et, ut dixi, ad lineam, numquam fore ut atomus altera alteram posset attingere itaque ** attulit rem commenticiam: declinare dixit atomum perpaulum, quo nihil posset fieri minus; ita effici complexiones et copulationes et adhaesiones atomorum inter se, ex quo efficeretur mundus omnesque partes mundi, quaeque in eo essent. Quae cum tota res (est) ficta pueriliter, tum ne efficit [quidem], quod vult. nam et ipsa declinatio ad libidinem fingitur -ait enim declinare atomum sine causa; quo nihil turpius physico, quam fieri quicquam sine causa dicere, -- et illum motum naturalem omnium ponderum, ut ipse constituit, e regione inferiorem locum petentium sine causa eripuit atomis nec tamen id, cuius causa haec finxerat, assecutus est.
[18] Epicurus autem, in quibus sequitur Democritum, non fere labitur. quamquam utriusque cum multa non probo, tum illud in primis, quod, cum in rerum natura duo quaerenda sint, unum, quae materia sit, ex qua quaeque res efficiatur, alterum, quae vis sit, quae quidque efficiat, de materia disseruerunt, vim et causam efficiendi reliquerunt. sed hoc commune vitium, illae Epicuri propriae ruinae: censet enim eadem illa individua et solida corpora ferri deorsum suo pondere ad lineam, hunc naturalem esse omnium
[20] Nam si omnes atomi declinabunt,
nullae umquam cohaerescent, sive aliae declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur, primum erit hoc quasi, 12
provincias atomis dare, quae recte, quae oblique ferantur, deinde eadem illa atomorum, in quo etiam Democritus haeret, turbulenta concursio hunc mundi ornatum efficere non poterit. ne illud quidem physici, credere aliquid esse minimum, quod profecto numquam putavisset, si a Polyaeno, familiari suo, geometrica discere maluisset quam illum etiam ipsum dedocere. Sol Democrito magnus videtur, quippe homini erudito in geometriaque perfecto, huic pedalis fortasse; tantum enim esse censet, quantus videtur, vel paulo aut maiorem aut minorem.
[22] Iam in altera philosophiae parte. quae est quaerendi ac disserendi, quae logikh dicitur, iste vester plane, ut mihi quidem videtur, inermis ac nudus est. tollit definitiones, nihil de dividendo ac partiendo docet, non quo modo efficiatur concludaturque ratio tradit, non qua via captiosa solvantur ambigua distinguantur ostendit; iudicia rerum in sensibus ponit, quibus si semel aliquid falsi pro vero probatum sit, sublatum esse omne iudicium veri et falsi putat. [23] Confirmat autem illud vel maxime, quod ipsa natura, ut ait ille, sciscat et probet, id est voluptatem et dolorem. ad haec et quae sequamur et quae fugiamus refert omnia. quod quamquam Aristippi est a Cyrenaicisque melius liberiusque defenditur, tamen eius modi esse iudico, ut nihil homine videatur indignius. ad maiora enim quaedam nos natura genuit et conformavit, ut mihi quidem videtur. ac fieri potest, ut errem, sed ita prorsus existimo, neque eum Torquatum, qui hoc primus cognomen invenerit, aut torquem illum hosti detraxisse, ut aliquam ex eo perciperet corpore voluptatem, aut cum Latinis tertio consulatu conflixisse apud Veserim propter voluptatem; quod vero securi percussit filium, privavisse se etiam videtur multis voluptatibus, cum ipsi naturae patrioque amori praetulerit ius maiestatis atque imperii.
[21] Ita, quae mutat, ea corrumpit, quae sequitur sunt tota Democriti, atomi, inane, imagines, quae eidola nominant, quorum incursione non solum videamus, sed etiam cogitemus; infinitio ipsa, quam apeirian vocant, tota ab illo est, tum innumerabiles mundi, qui et oriantur et intereant cotidie. Quae etsi mihi nullo modo probantur, tamen Democritum laudatum a ceteris ab hoc, qui eum unum secutus esset, nollem vituperatum.
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CycleOut Bristol is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender leisure cycling club for Bristol UK and Surrounding Area. Usually meet on a Wednesday, at the statue in Queens' Square. Vist the Facebook page: CycleOut Bristol or email cycleoutbristol@live.co.uk
Off the Cuff, Womenonly comedy show improvisation workshops, Michelle McMorrow (Off the cuff London, Spank the Phoney & The Jezebelles Bristol) presents the chance to explore your creative and comedic abil ity. Contact Michelle on 0791 941 0919
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Listings support Information and support to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transvestite communities.
Bristol Lesbian & Gay switchboard 0117 922 1328
8pm to 10pm Monday to Friday EACH is the awardwinning charity for young people and adults affected by homophobia. Freephone Actionline (10am4pm MonFri) 0808 1000 143 Office 0117 946 7607 info@eachaction.org.uk http://www.eachaction.org.uk
Freedom Youth is a youth group for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender young people, and those questioning their sexuality aged 1321. Freedom Youth is based in central Bristol and is part of the LGBT young people's Team. Call Babs on 0117 3773677
Pink Parents is UK charity for LGB parents and their children. Quarterly magazine, website, publications, help, support and workshops. Unit 29 Hillier Road, DevizesWiltshire SN10 2FB 01380 727 935 enquiries@pinkparents.org.uk ttp://www.pinkparents.org.uk/ The Safra Project is a resource project working on issues relating to lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender women who identify as Muslim religiously and/or culturally (Muslim LBT women). Safra Project, 87a Corbyn Street, London, N4 3BY. 07941659320
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Listings venues Bristol Bear Bar 2 West St., Old Market, Bristol. BS2 0DF 0117 955 1967
Old Castle Green 46 Gloucester La., Old Market, Bristol. BS2 0DP 0117 330 9140
Flamingos 23足25 West St., Bristol. BS2 0DF 0117 955 9269
Old Market Tavern 29 Old Market St., Bristol. BS2 0HD 0117 922 6123
The Griffin 41 Colston St., Bristol. BS1 5AP 0117 908 6731
OMG! 3, Frogmore St, Bristol. BS1 5NA
The Lounge 53 Old Market St., Bristol. BS2 0ER 0117 922 1224
The Pineapple 37 St Georges Rd, Bristol. BS1 5UU 0117 907 1162 Queens Shilling 9 Frogmore St., Bristol. BS1 5NA 0117 926 4342 The Retreat West St., Old Market, Bristol, BS2 0DF
The Palace 2足4 West St., Old Market. Bristol. BS2 0DF
Club Nights Come To Daddy 2nd Saturday / Month 足 Club O, Old Market www.cometodaddyclub.co.uk
Club Wonky Last Friday / Month 足 Warehouse, Prince Street www.clubwonky.co.ukClub Nights
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