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Download a copy here: LGB Alliance celebrates four generations of lesbian and gay activism at 4th Annual Conference
Previous Press Releases:
Historic win for LGB Alliance 6th July 2023
About us
We are lesbians, gay men and bisexuals and, in 2019, we formed a group to promote our rights. In 2021, we were delighted to become a charity registered with the the Charity Commission of England and Wales.
Read more about our purpose here.
Our spokespeople
Our founders, Bev Jackson and Kate Harris, are experienced campaigners who have created a climate of hope for LGB people, in the UK and beyond.
Our Chief Executive Officer, Kate Barker, is a writer, strategist and a brand expert.
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Our campaigns
We provide information, community and support to LGB people in a world where being lesbian, gay or bisexual is, once again, under threat. We champion free speech. We campaign on issues that affect same-sex attracted people and we highlight and tackle discrimation wherever we see it.
Provide reliable information
We are evidence-based in all we do. Whether we’re posting to our over 100,000 followers across social media, updating our 7,000+ newsletter subscribers, adding well-researched resources to our website or producing educational and engaging webinars – facts matter.
Preserving history for future generations is crucial too and we have made important films documenting gay lives from the past and present.
Currently we are developing a significant LGB Archive which will prove a useful research and eductional resource for all.
Create Community
We run small and large-scale social events, hold our own high-profile annual conference at the QEII Centre in London, and provide speakers at events run by other groups. Many of our supporters told us that in this newly hostile environment, they find it harder to meet like-minded people. In response, we launched our Student Network to provide support and friendship to young people at university and our local Friends’ Groups.
Promote free speech
Respectful free speech is the cornerstone of a democratic society and we give voice to the many who have felt that speaking out in defence of LGB rights has become impossibly dangerous. We are courteous but resolute – we will not have our views censored.
Support lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals
We respond to emails and messages from a broad range of people with direct action and support or by connecting them with individuals or organisations that can assist.
Most frequently we receive letters from parents of young people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual and are struggling with being accepted by their peers. In response, we have launched a pilot Helpline for young people aged 13 – 24. This is the only Helpline in the UK run for, and by, same-sex attracted people.
Campaign to tackle discrimination
Our campaigns highlight issues that impact lesbians, gay men and bisexuals and they bring the injustice and discrimination that we face to the attention of the wider public.
We campaign to protect gender non-conforming young people from the scandal of unnecessary, experimental medicalisation.
We helped to ensure that LGB people in Russia, and 16 other countries, are afforded the same right to form partnerships as every other citizen, via the European Court of Human Rights.
We campaigned against Self-ID laws that would prevent lesbians and gay men from meeting in LGB-only space.
We have supported Ugandans who face increasingly hostile laws relating to their sexual orientation.
We will always fight for, and defend, our hard-won rights and we thank all those who continue to stand with us.
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