Our Team
Bev Jackson
Bev Jackson worked as a teacher and university lecturer in English literature before becoming an academic translator. 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 2016, she published the book, A Month with Starfish, on her experience volunteering with refugees in Greece. 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.
At LGB Interrupted, Bev will speak on the panel “All Quiet on the TQ Front”, alongside other pioneers of the movement. Together, they’ll reflect on how a once-liberatory struggle for equality has become a space where LGB voices are suppressed, and gender ideology has replaced the clarity of same-sex attraction with confusion, erasure, and pressure to conform.
James Roberts
James is Managing Director of HumanGayMale, an initiative for gay men who reject gender identity ideology. His professional background is two decades in the charity and membership sectors, primarily in strategic communication, engagement, or governance related roles, and most recently as a freelance consultant. He is a former Chair of Trustees of the LGBT Consortium (in the days before gender identity had taken over), was Project Manager for a regional Pride, and has volunteered with various gay, LGB, and LGBT organisations.
On this panel, he’ll speak to the internal shift that has left LGB people silenced, marginalised, and erased by the very movement that once fought for our rights—and what it will take to reclaim our voice.
HumanGayMale will also have a stall at the conference with further information and sign up option!
Iseult White
Iseult White is a writer, feminist, and psychotherapist known for her commitment to freedom of expression and advocacy for women, gender non-normative, and same-sex attracted people. She is a contributor to the Sunday Times bestseller The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht, a collection of essays from women who have spoken out for sex-based rights, often at significant personal cost.
Iseult brings clarity of thought, compassion, a sense of humor, and deeply held principles to her activism. Her work is characterized by a willingness to create space for difficult conversations and a genuine openness to listening to all perspectives.
As a psychotherapist and management consultant, she draws on extensive experience in leadership, organizational development, and mental health in her work. Central to Iseult's philosophy is the belief that when women say no, that boundary must be respected. She is dedicated to fostering environments where women's voices, particularly lesbian and bisexual women, are heard and their autonomy is upheld.
On this panel, she will be reflecting on her early involvement in gay rights activism in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis — a time when solidarity, honesty, and the defence of same-sex attracted people were at the heart of the movement. Drawing from this lived experience, Iseult will explore how the movement has evolved, where it has gone wrong, and how we reclaim the original spirit of LGB rights.