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LGB Alliance (@AllianceLGB) claims to fight for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, and yet, in 2026, gay men have been shot, beaten unconscious and hospitalised in homophobic attacks across the UK whilst they stay silent. 📅 24 January A man is shot in the leg in Manchester's Gay Village. Six arrested. A gun recovered. LGB Alliance said nothing. 📅 18 April LGB Alliance holds its annual conference. Theme: 'Let's Go Big.' Sessions include 'Transing away the gay,' detransition stories, opposition to conversion therapy bans, a panel with Andy Ngo. Not a single session on homophobic violence. Not one word about keeping gay men and lesbians safe on UK streets. 📅 24 April Six days later. A man in his 30s is beaten unconscious in Bristol city centre. Found with severe facial injuries, he's left in critical condition. Police treat it as a homophobic hate crime. LGB Alliance said nothing. 📅 11 May A man is arrested on suspicion of making explosive devices in a hotel on Canal Street, the heart of Manchester's Gay Village. The hotel is evacuated. Bars cleared. A cordon stretches across the street. LGB Alliance said nothing. 📅 4 July Hours before Pride in London, 23-year-old Callum Olver is punched in the face in Hackney after homophobic abuse. He's left with a dent in his face. Police treat it as a hate crime. LGB Alliance said nothing. 📅 10 August CEO Kate Barker-Mawjee (@KateBMwriting) is on X praising GB News, calling it a champion of LGB rights. At the time, GB News is under two Ofcom investigations after guests linked gay men to paedophilia and child sexual abuse on air. An open letter demands LGB Alliance explain why it endorsed a channel platforming the oldest homophobic trope in the book. That same month, the Met released CCTV of Callum's attacker and asked the public for help. LGB Alliance had time for GB News. Not for Callum. 📅 1 October An 18-year-old is assaulted outside a nightclub in Chichester. Police treat it as a homophobic hate crime. LGB Alliance said nothing. 📅 13 October A cast member of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Chichester Festival Theatre is chased through the city centre. Sussex Police call it a homophobic hate crime. The show is cancelled. Munya Chawawa later speaks out about weeks of racist and homophobic abuse the cast endured. LGB Alliance said nothing. 📈 This is the year the CPS reported record hate crime referrals with 911 homophobic cases in a single quarter. Galop reported a 27% rise in helpline calls. Stonewall found only 18% of victims reported to police. Sexual orientation hate crime is up 20% in five years. Through all of it, LGB Alliance ran no campaigns for victims of homophobic violence. No fundraisers. No calls to action. Their website, their conference, their feed: overwhelmingly about trans people. Gender ideology. Puberty blockers. The Equality Act. This is a registered charity. @ChtyCommission gave it that status. Its founders @BevJacksonAuth and Kate Harris built it on the promise of standing up for gay men and lesbians. Gay men are being beaten unconscious on British streets and this charity cannot bring itself to even post about it. So the next time @AllianceLGB says it speaks for us, ask them: when?