Bev Jackson
co-founder and trustee, LGB Alliance

Bev Jackson worked as a teacher and university lecturer in English literature before settling into a career translating scholarly books and articles. She was a founding member of the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970 and has supported progressive causes from anti-Apartheid to women’s reproductive rights over the past decades. In 2015, she spent a month volunteering with refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos, and published the book, A Month with Starfish, on this experience in 2016.

Bev then became alarmed by the regressive turn taken by the gay-rights movement she had helped to found. In 2019, she met Kate Harris, who had similar concerns. Stonewall flatly refused to engage to discuss these concerns. Bev and Kate therefore set up LGB Alliance, to revive the LGB rights movement. LGB Alliance is a registered charity. Bev Jackson lives near Amsterdam with her wife Heleen and dog Billy – children and grandchildren all within cycling distance.

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