LGB International Launches
Sept 20th, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
LESBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL GROUPS DECLARE THEIR INDEPENDENCE FROM THE LGBTQIA+ ESTABLISHMENT
LGB INTERNATIONAL DOES NOT INCLUDE TRANSGENDER ORGANISATIONS
On Saturday 20 September 2025, organizations of lesbian, gay and bisexual people around the world are declaring their independence from the “LGBTQIA+” establishment by launching LGB International.
The new group seeks to represent the interests of LGB people who they say are no longer served by the legacy gay organisations which now focus entirely on transgender issues. It seeks to raise awareness of the 64 countries where homosexuality is still illegal, the places where same-sex partnerships are not recognised in law and the many places where gender identity ideology is undermining same-sex rights. It wants to fight the way that heterosexual men are defining themselves as lesbians and heterosexual women as gay men and demanding access to our spaces and bodies.
LGB International has member organisations in seventeen countries ranging from Taiwan to Australia and Bulgaria to the USA. The groups were inspired by the creation of LGB Alliance in the UK in 2019.
LGB Alliance Canada wishes to announce its relaunch and its affiliation with LGB International. In Canada, lesbian, gay and bisexual rights have been undermined as organizations like Egale have mobilized their substantial political influence and war chests to promote gender identity politics.
Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations have endorsed scientifically unevidenced gender-affirming care which disproportionately targets same-sex attracted people for radical, experimental and irreversible medical interventions. They have worked to erode sex-based rights by rejecting biologically grounded definitions of "man" and "woman." Many have stoked hostility toward lesbians and gays who wish to cultivate same-sex spaces and community. As same-sex attracted minorities, our unique needs and aims are actively obstructed by the Canadian organizations that claim to represent us. We are pleased to join with a new international organization that truly works to restore and preserve lesbian, gay and bisexual rights.
Frederick Schminke, Chair of LGB International said “We are launching this because all the organisations that once represented gay people are now entirely devoted to "gender identity ideology". We risk losing our hard-won rights, and as public support plummets, traditional LGBTQ+ organisations have barricaded themselves up against all reason, fostering an atmosphere where no dissenting views are tolerated. This charade ends today: ILGA is no longer the International Lesbian and Gay Association and it no longer speaks for us."
Bev Jackson, co-founder of LGB Alliance said: “What we started in the UK in 2019 is growing into a global movement. Lesbian, gay and bisexual people have the right to our own organizations. Many young LGB people are being encouraged to think they must be ‘trans’ - and need drugs and surgeries - instead of accepting that they are simply attracted to people of the same sex.”
Nick Yao, co-founder of LGB Alliance Taiwan said: “We started LGB Alliance Taiwan because we are losing our lesbian, gay and bisexual groups and spaces. LGB equality is far from achieved in Taiwan or around the world so we need LGB organisations.”
Welcoming the launch, Renato Sabbadini, ILGA co-Secretary General (2008-2013) and Executive Director (2013-2018) said: “While we are proud of the advancement of human rights for everyone regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity in the last decades, we cannot deny that the post-modernist denial of biological sex has opened a wound within the movement, at the expense of women, especially lesbians. The birth of LGB International is a welcome contribution to a debate, where the freedom to express one’s individuality does not come at the expense of sex-based rights.”
“I welcome the launch of LGB International. Over the past 10–15 years, the merger with the TIQ+ and their queer-transactivist agenda has proven detrimental to LGB. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people deserve organisations of their own.”
Visit LGB International at www.lgbinternational.org. Visit LGB Alliance Canada at https://www.lgballiancecanada.ca/ or contact us at lgballiancecanada@proton.me.