Home Office blocks extremist anti-LGBTQ+ content creator from entering UK
Using her online platform to promote anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, the content creator has previously been seen burning a copy of the Quran and LGBTQ+ books with a flamethrower
By Aaron Sugg
US-based anti-LGBTQ+ content creator Valentina Gomez has been blocked from entering the UK by the Home Office due to her extremist anti-Islamic views.
Following plans to attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom march next month, the Muslim Women’s Network UK (MWNUK) wrote to home secretary Shabana Mahmood, warning of a “risk [of] emboldening far-right extremism”, after which Gomez was effectively barred from entry.
Gomez has been a staunch supporter of MAGA and far-right rhetoric, using her online platform on X to promote anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Muslim views.
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood said Valentina Gomez’s presence in the UK “would not be conducive to the public good”
I’m coming to England on a boat.
— Valentina Gomez (@ValentinaForUSA) April 20, 2026
They can try to ban me, but they cannot ban the TRUTH.
See you on May 16th🏴 pic.twitter.com/dnvyPJbzZ4
Baroness Shaista Gohir, CEO of MWNUK, wrote in the open letter: “Allowing her entry to the UK would undermine the Government’s commitment to keep Muslims safe and risk emboldening far-right extremism and further normalising religious and racial hatred.”
As per BBC News, Mahmood ruled that Gomez’s presence in the UK “would not be conducive to the public good”, prompting the controversial creator to retaliate on social media.
Posting to her more than half a million followers on X on Monday, Gomez wrote: “I’m coming to England on a boat. They can try to ban me, but they cannot ban the truth. See you on 16 May.”
“I guarantee you that the White House will get involved” – Gomez claimed that US authorities would intervene if she is arrested upon entering the UK
Her message was accompanied by a video in which she appeared to dismiss the Home Office’s decision, baselessly saying: “I’m gonna do exactly what their rapists paedophile Muslims do. I’m gonna hop on a boat, get free, luxury accommodation, deliver my beautiful speech, and if they dare to arrest me, I guarantee you that the White House will get involved.”
Gomez’s ban from the UK comes after she previously ran unsuccessful political campaigns in Missouri and Texas on an anti-Islam platform, including filming herself burning a copy of the Quran in a social media video.
She has also previously faced backlash for burning LGBTQ+-themed books with a flamethrower as part of political messaging against so-called “grooming books”.
Valentina Gomez’s history of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric
In the campaign video, she said: “This is what I will do to the grooming books when I become secretary of state. These books come from a Missouri public library. When I’m in office, they will burn,” she said as part of her campaign.
Another clip shows Gomez, while wielding a firearm, intensifying her anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, stating: “In America, you can be anything you want, so don’t be weak and gay. Stay fucking hard.”
Endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, she also slammed former president Joe Biden’s administration as “weak and gay”, claiming they had “destroyed our nation.”
Following the ban, MWNUK welcomed the move, saying it should serve as a “precedent for others who chose to promote disinformation and hatred”.