Linda Riley

Linda Riley is a British journalist, publisher and LGBTIQ+ rights advocate. She owns the Jack the Ripper Museum and is the publisher of Diva magazine and founder of the Lesbian Visibility Week.

Riley was joint publisher of the magazines g3 and Out in the City. She later worked as an executive in the diversity and inclusion sector, and founded the Global Diversity List, European Diversity Awards, and the Pride Power List.^[1][2] She was a board director of GLAAD from 2013 to 2019 and has been patron of the LGBT homelessness charity Akt and the anti-bullying charity Diversity Role Models.^[1]

She became the publisher of Diva magazine in 2016. In 2020 she founded the Lesbian Visibility Week that is currently observed in multiple countries.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

According to Companies House, she is also the owner of the Jack the Ripper Museum in London, which was purchased on 30 September 2016 for £670,000 in the name of Historic Properties Ltd. She was one of the founding members of The Jack the Ripper Museum Ltd (Company reg: 08002897) along with her partner Katie McCrum and Mark Palmer-Edgecumb. The company obtained planning permission for the museum on the basis that it would show the history of women in the East End. There was a good deal of controversy when the museum opened and it was apparent that the women referred to in the planning application were the victims of Jack the Ripper.

The Museum's website states: “The victims were all poor East End women who had been murdered with ferocious brutality. The murderer used a knife to slit the throats of his victims and then, most horrifically, mutilated their dead bodies.” The obvious conflict of interest between her public role as a champion of women's rights and her connection with Jack the Ripper was resolved at Companies House by appointing her niece Chantel Shaw to act as the person with significant control.