UK advocacy group LGB Alliance to attend Conservative Party Conference
The British advocacy and charitable organization LGB Alliance will host an official exhibition stand at the upcoming Conservative Party Conference, scheduled to take place from 4 to 7 October 2026 at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham. The announcement was made on the professional network LinkedIn by charity trustee and LGB Alliance Business Forum co-chair Dan James Smith.
According to Smith, the organization’s stand will be located in ICC Hall 3 (Stand 60), with senior leadership including Chief Executive Kate Barker attending the event. LGB Alliance’s presence at political gatherings has previously generated debate across the British political spectrum: while the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties have refused to grant the group official conference space, the Conservatives have permitted its attendance at their annual autumn conferences since 2021.
The organization’s attendance comes amid an ongoing debate over the direction of LGBT policy within the Conservative Party. In an op-ed published in early September 2026 for the conservative publication Conservative Home, Dan James Smith called on party leadership and the affiliated group LGBT+ Conservatives to refocus exclusively on the rights of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGB) rooted in biological sex, rather than embracing gender identity concepts (TQ+). Smith highlighted the recent decision by the veteran American gay conservative group Log Cabin Republicans to step back from transgender advocacy and return to an LGB-exclusive focus. Additionally, LGB Alliance has actively campaigned against the government’s proposed Conversion Practices Bill, warning that overly broad definitions risk criminalizing exploratory psychotherapy for gender-distressed youth and ordinary parental conversations, thereby encouraging medical transition over the acceptance of same-sex attraction.
LGB Alliance was founded in the United Kingdom in 2019 by feminists and campaigners, including Beverley Jackson and Kate Harris, who objected to mainstream LGBT organizations adopting gender identity theory. Registered as an educational charity in 2021—a status it successfully defended in court against legal challenges in 2023—the group advocates for the sex-based rights of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals, the preservation of single-sex spaces, and freedom of expression.
Previously, Urania reported on the decision by American gay conservative group Log Cabin Republicans to drop transgender advocacy in favor of focusing on LGB rights, as well as debates surrounding conversion practice legislation, including the defeat of an EU-wide ban on conversion therapies in the European Parliament.
