Brilliant article JL. It's a 'dark money funded astro-turfed hate group' is it mate? Ooooh that’ll get people chucking money at the windmill fund. And the head of Edinburgh Rape Crisis advises GLP? Well, well, well. Curiouser and curiouser! They keep getting slapped down and still they try. Somebody needs to hold the government to account but it isn’t them.
LGB Alliance need to challenge that withdrawal of funds. Formally. Happy to contribute to a crowdfunder.
So, that's how it is: if you want to sabotage an organisation, just make unfounded public accusations and bring in a frivolous lawsuit against a decision concerning said organisation. Then make others aware that "this organisation is under review or investigation" and so make public funding stop.
Are those people even aware of that they just opened the floodgates to potentially all charities being in constant danger of bankrupcy because they could have any and all public funding withheld at any given time?
These organisations that keep reversing their decisions every time they receive false information from the TRAs need look at the harm it is doing to their reputations. Fewer people are in the dark and seeing them as spineless gits.
Extraordinary - that the Arts Council granted the money, gave the money, and asked for it back. How can any arts organisation or Arts Council funded event have security to run with projects when, on a whim, it can be demanded that money be returned?
This is surreal. I'm old enough to remember the days when lesbian and gay people were openly demonised by all sorts of smears and outright lies, now it's back on again. As if that wasn't bizarre and infuriating enough, the smears are by a group who claim the acronym LGBT+, which is utterly meaningless - if you believe in their definition of the T, it follows that there is no such thing as the LG or B.
One thing that gives me hope is that lesbian and gay people didn't back down from the might of the political and media establishment, so they certainly won't be backing down from this shower of gibbering, cult-following half-wits.
Such a disappointing turn of events, I was so pleased to see the LGB Alliance recieve the initial Arts Council funding. What a bunch of cowards the AC are.
Time to go to the politicians as well as the courts. Either the Charity Commission does its job or the politicians disband it. It is funded through the public purse. As are most of the organisations mentioned. What monies are they using for this action and where did they come from? Politicians can ask these questions. If any of it has come from the public purse, including in Legal Aid, the public has the right to know. This attack needs to be put out in the public gaze... I don't usually support the red tops, including The Mail, but it might be time to bring them in too. The Good Law Project needs to change its name too. I can think of several names but all too rude to be made public! And the head of the snake needs to be reported to the Law Society for spreading lies. Get him struck off!
What an appalling, shameful statement from Jolyon Maugham, and so patently untrue. How bad have things become that a group of lesbian, gay men and bisexuals people are described as a hate group and compared with white supremacists? For all the progress that has been made by LGB people and their supporters, such as securing same sex marriage and other legal protections, they continue to be vulnerable because homophobia continues to exist. Not least among TRA's, their 'allies', gender idealogues and Stonewall. Who appear to have ditched lesbians, diminished the G and B and, as we all know, massively prioritised the T.
They are the ones responsible for the divisions, not the LGB Alliance, and now for unrelenting bigotry and hatred. But for Maugham, the LGB Alliance are the problem, to the extent of being fascists, bankrolled by extremists who no doubt have all kinds of evil intentions. He knows it's bullshit but he's saying it anyway because he thinks it'll do him some good. Eventually, a point will be reached when that stops, leaving him with an awful lot of back peddling to do. I hope it'll be in vain, for him and all the others.
I hope they sue. Send me the link to the crowdfunder.
The Arts Council - funders of the Family Sex Show.
Brilliant article JL. It's a 'dark money funded astro-turfed hate group' is it mate? Ooooh that’ll get people chucking money at the windmill fund. And the head of Edinburgh Rape Crisis advises GLP? Well, well, well. Curiouser and curiouser! They keep getting slapped down and still they try. Somebody needs to hold the government to account but it isn’t them.
LGB Alliance need to challenge that withdrawal of funds. Formally. Happy to contribute to a crowdfunder.
Really appreciate being kept up to speed Graham. Not gay but would love to support them and contribute to a crowdfunder.
So, that's how it is: if you want to sabotage an organisation, just make unfounded public accusations and bring in a frivolous lawsuit against a decision concerning said organisation. Then make others aware that "this organisation is under review or investigation" and so make public funding stop.
Are those people even aware of that they just opened the floodgates to potentially all charities being in constant danger of bankrupcy because they could have any and all public funding withheld at any given time?
These organisations that keep reversing their decisions every time they receive false information from the TRAs need look at the harm it is doing to their reputations. Fewer people are in the dark and seeing them as spineless gits.
I am not Gay. But fuck me I support you guys against this Trans Deviance nonsense. I will wear a "I am not Gay but I am" T-Shirt in Solidarity.
Extraordinary - that the Arts Council granted the money, gave the money, and asked for it back. How can any arts organisation or Arts Council funded event have security to run with projects when, on a whim, it can be demanded that money be returned?
Does anyone know how much the funding was for? We could try raise it ourself?
This is surreal. I'm old enough to remember the days when lesbian and gay people were openly demonised by all sorts of smears and outright lies, now it's back on again. As if that wasn't bizarre and infuriating enough, the smears are by a group who claim the acronym LGBT+, which is utterly meaningless - if you believe in their definition of the T, it follows that there is no such thing as the LG or B.
One thing that gives me hope is that lesbian and gay people didn't back down from the might of the political and media establishment, so they certainly won't be backing down from this shower of gibbering, cult-following half-wits.
Such a disappointing turn of events, I was so pleased to see the LGB Alliance recieve the initial Arts Council funding. What a bunch of cowards the AC are.
LGB Alliance, is the papercut that won’t go away!
Time to go to the politicians as well as the courts. Either the Charity Commission does its job or the politicians disband it. It is funded through the public purse. As are most of the organisations mentioned. What monies are they using for this action and where did they come from? Politicians can ask these questions. If any of it has come from the public purse, including in Legal Aid, the public has the right to know. This attack needs to be put out in the public gaze... I don't usually support the red tops, including The Mail, but it might be time to bring them in too. The Good Law Project needs to change its name too. I can think of several names but all too rude to be made public! And the head of the snake needs to be reported to the Law Society for spreading lies. Get him struck off!
What an appalling, shameful statement from Jolyon Maugham, and so patently untrue. How bad have things become that a group of lesbian, gay men and bisexuals people are described as a hate group and compared with white supremacists? For all the progress that has been made by LGB people and their supporters, such as securing same sex marriage and other legal protections, they continue to be vulnerable because homophobia continues to exist. Not least among TRA's, their 'allies', gender idealogues and Stonewall. Who appear to have ditched lesbians, diminished the G and B and, as we all know, massively prioritised the T.
They are the ones responsible for the divisions, not the LGB Alliance, and now for unrelenting bigotry and hatred. But for Maugham, the LGB Alliance are the problem, to the extent of being fascists, bankrolled by extremists who no doubt have all kinds of evil intentions. He knows it's bullshit but he's saying it anyway because he thinks it'll do him some good. Eventually, a point will be reached when that stops, leaving him with an awful lot of back peddling to do. I hope it'll be in vain, for him and all the others.
Are Maugham and co. ever told they must document the veracity of their accusations?
I'm sickened by this.
Enough is enough - time to sue now