Resistance Radio interview of Kate Harris and Bev Jackson

Kate Harris is a life-long feminist and lesbian campaigner.  She worked at Brighton Women’s Aid – a refuge for women fleeing domestic abuse – in the 1970s and continued her activism when she moved into the corporate sector.  This included American Express, where Kate worked as Vice President Global Relationship Management, Corporate Services.  Kate was an active supporter of Europe’s largest gay rights organisation – named Stonewall. She organised Amex sponsorship for major Stonewall events and served in a personal capacity as a Stonewall “Ambassador”. Bev Jackson was a founding member of the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970. She is a lifelong progressive activist in causes including anti-Apartheid and refugee rights. In 2016 she published a book, A Month with Starfish, on her experience working with refugees in Greece. Bev worked as a teacher and then a lecturer in English literature at the University of Amsterdam, and later became an academic translator. She lives in the Netherlands. Kate Harris and Bev Jackson were introduced to each other in 2019 by a mutual acquaintance who saw they shared similar concerns about Stonewall’s abandonment of gay and lesbian rights. Both had separately communicated their concerns to Stonewall, but there was no willingness to engage. In the summer of 2019 they therefore decided to team up and to revive the gay rights movement in the form of a new organisation: LGB Alliance.