Photography Eleanor Bentall
Our Work
Lesbians, gay men and bisexuals living free from discrimination or disadvantage based on their sexual orientation.
We exist to:
Stand up for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals
Highlight the dual discrimination faced by lesbians
Promote respectful free speech
Fight the medicalisation of children
Visit our About page to find out more about us.
Who we are:
Founded in 2019 by experienced campaigners Bev Jackson and Kate Harris to promote gay rights and create a climate of hope for LGB people, we became a registered charity in 2021.
Our Board is chaired by Eileen Gallagher OBE and our CEO, Kate Barker, leads a team of staff and volunteers to carry out our work.
Visit our People page to find out more.
What we do:
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 discrimination wherever we see it.
Our services include:
Community building including Friends of LGB Alliance, our network of local social groups across the country, and Our Book Group, the very popular monthly online meeting of book loving LGB people.
Support services including The LGB Helpline for Young People, a live-chat text based service delivered by us and peopled by experienced volunteers, and the LGB Alliance Business Forum, a new organisation for business leaders who want to speak up for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals.
Education and information including deep dive blogs and downloadable Info Sheets which provide reliable overviews of issues that affect LGB people, and our series of LGB Alliance presents… Webinars and original films covering everything from pub quizzes, panel discussions on the key issues affecting LGB people and scholarly discussions about gay history.
For more see the ‘What we do’ section of our menu.
Our campaigns include:
Adoption, Fostering & You, providing high quality information, signposting to additional resources and organisations and delivering the support that potential, and current, foster or adoptive parents need.
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 and fought to ensure that the surviving same-sex spouse or civil partner of a deceased member of an occupational pension scheme receives the same survivor benefits as an opposite-sex spouse.
We campaigned against Self-ID laws that would prevent lesbians and gay men from meeting in LGB-only space.
For more visit our Campaigns page.