A new group has been created to promote lesbian, gay and bi rights in the Labour Party. The group is made up of Labour Party LGB members from across the UK.
Labour LGB held its first full steering group meeting on Monday 10 February 2025 and launched its social media presence on 1 February 2025 to coincide with LGB History Month.
Among the key aims of Labour LGB are to:
- defend and enhance the rights of LGB people in the UK and internationally to ensure same-sex attracted people do not suffer discrimination
- promote cultural equality for LGB people in addition to legislative equality
- support the principles that same-sex attraction is real and that biology matters
- campaign for the full implementation of the Cass Review to protect LGB young people from abuse
- advocate for single-sex spaces to be guaranteed in law and by public bodies
- provide a vehicle for LGB people to organise and be heard in the Labour Party Dee McCullough, a spokesperson for Labour LGB said:
“We are a coalition of proud Labour Party LGB members.
“The last Labour Government delivered a raft of landmark reforms that we celebrate. Civil partnerships, equal age of consent, equal employment rights, adoption law reform and abolishing Section 28 to a name a few. In the years ahead we need to be vigilant in maintaining these rights. We must defend the Equality Act which spelled out that sexual orientation is a protected characteristic.
“We want to ensure that the Labour Government continues to accept that same-sex attraction is real and that biology matters. These principles must be embedded in legislative proposals and in government policy.
“We would encourage Labour Party LGB members to join Labour LGB. In the ongoing debate about LGB rights within the party, the voices of LGB people must be heard in branches, CLPs, at Party Conference and in Parliament. The campaign for equality never ends.”
