Sometimes referred to as the Gay Labour Caucus, it was set up in 1975 and one of the group's first banners is currently displayed at the People's History Museum[2] in Manchester.

[5] As a socialist society, the organisation has the right to submit motions and send a delegate to the Labour Party Conference, participate in Party structures including electing three members of the National Policy Forum and a representative to the National Executive Committee (NEC).

Since 2012, LGBT Labour has been entitled to directly elect a representative to the National Policy Forum in its own right.

[6] In 2006, the society also published Peter Purton's book Sodom, Gomorrah and the New Jerusalem: Labour and Lesbian and Gay Rights from Edward Carpenter to today which documented the lobbying, campaigning and alliance building which led to the legal reforms of 1997.

[11] LGBT+ Labour also has a number of regional groups to carry out its work in those areas, which have their own smaller committees to run them, also democratically elected.

The LGBT+ Labour AGM also agrees its policy positions as well as identifying the work programme for the National Committee.

[18] LGBT Labour produced an LGBT manifesto for the 2010 general election with the Labour Party launching the document in Soho with the party's Deputy leader Harriet Harman and the-then Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.

[20] This was launched in Brighton by Angela Eagle and Amy Lame shortly after the main Labour manifesto,[21] which was subsequently endorsed by Ian McKellen.

[23] A series of questions were sent to all candidates asked by LGBT Labour members and readers of PinkNews.

They hold a Saturday night social at the start of Labour conference every year,[32] originally launched in 2006 under the name 'The Only Party in the Village',[33] and an annual fringe meeting with Stonewall.

LGBT+ Labour invites out LGBT politicians from the British Parliament, devolved legislatures and directly elected mayors to act as patrons of the campaign.