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Our asks for the party leaders
We have written to the leaders of Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives in light of their manifesto publications to ask that they clarify their party’s positions on...
Government pledge to clarify Equality Act
LGB Alliance support a clarification of the Equality Act 2010 because our rights as same-sex attracted people are contingent upon the understanding that ‘sex’ means ‘biological...
Government commits to banning private clinic prescriptions
We are delighted the Health Secretary heeded our call to ban private clinics from prescribing puberty blockers to children.We are relieved that organisations such as GenderGP may...
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Remembering David Cairns and looking to Uganda
9th May 2021. (by Dermot Kehoe). On this day 10 years ago I lost David to acute Pancreatitis. I have been touched today by the number of people who’ve contacted me to say how much he meant to them, how much they miss him and how he is still in their thoughts. I’d like...
Questions for election candidates
28th April 2021 Ahead of the various elections on May 6, we have a collection of questions from LGB Alliance, LGB Alliance Scotland and LGB Alliance Cymru for you to put to candidates directly, or as conversation starters with candidates and their campaigners. Tweet...
A letter to the University of Rhode Island
11th April 2021Donna Hughes, professor of Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island, recently published an essay entitled “Fantasy Worlds on the Political Right and Left: QAnon and Trans-Sex Beliefs”. In response, the university has come under huge pressure...
Our letter to MPs on conversion therapy
30th March 2021 Last week we wrote to all MPs. Replies are coming in and we’ve got some introduction meetings lined up. Here’s what we sent them: Stop transing the gay awayWe are writing to you following the motion on LGBT Conversion Therapy debated in the House of...
Update from LGSM Serbia
Lezbejska i Gej Solidarna Mreža (Lesbian and Gay Solidarity Network) LGSM is a network of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals in Serbia who recognise the need for a new and radically different form of LGB organising. These are a few of our current campaigns and areas of...
High Court rules ONS must change census guidance
A High Court judge has ordered that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) amend the guidance they provide for how people should answer the question about sex in the census. Having initially agreed the wording of the “what is your sex” question in the 2021 census,...
Ofcom confirms it does not believe it is inappropriate to talk to LGB Alliance
13th February 2021.Following our constructive meeting with Ofcom, the regulator has confirmed in writing that Dame Melanie Dawes, Chief Executive, had never intended to suggest that LGB Alliance should be excluded from debate in the media. The slant put on her...
LGB Groups around the World are Growing Fast
There are LGB Alliance groups in several countries, with new groups on the way in many more. The German group launched recently and within a week it had already acquired almost 1,000 followers on Twitter! Meanwhile, the recent hardening of homophobic attitudes by the...
SNP doesn’t seem to hear when LGB people and women leave the party
30th January 2021. (by Rhona Hotchkiss) On Thursday evening, Nicola Sturgeon took to Twitter to issue a self-filmed, off-the-cuff video message. She made it in response to reports of ‘significant numbers’ of young people resigning from the SNP over allegations of...
Advertising regulator rejects complaint about LGB Alliance advert
17th December 2020 The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the UK’s independent regulator of advertising across all media, has rejected a complaint about an advert we put in The Scotsman newspaper on 25 November. The advert criticised the proposed Hate Crime Bill...
Hate Crime Bill Scotland
15th December 2020 We wrote directly to every MSP, in advance of the Bill’s Stage 1 debate in Holyrood, to highlight our concerns about why the Scottish government's proposed Hate Crime Bill such a threat to free speech. We believe the new offence of ‘stirring up...