InterPride
{{Short description|Nonprofit organization}}
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| name = InterPride
| full_name = International Association of Pride Organizers
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| type = 501(c)(3)
| founded_date = {{Start date|1982|10}}
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| founders = Marsha H. Levine and Rick Turner (deceased)
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| area_served = Global
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| focus = Organizations producing LGBT Pride parades
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| method = Capacity building, networking, sharing knowledge
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| former name = National Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators, International Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators, International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Coordinators
| website = https://www.interpride.org/
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InterPride is the international organization that brings together Pride organizers from across the World to network, share knowledge, and maximize impact. To this end, Pride organizers design InterPride's structure, programs, and initiatives, to better support them at the local, regional, and global levels. InterPride also owns the label WorldPride, which the membership licenses to a member organization through a direct vote.
History
File:Il World Pride di Roma a Piazzale ostiense - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 8 july 2000.jpg, held in Rome on July 8, 2000]]
InterPride was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in Texas in the 1980s. The organization was originally known as the National Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators (NAL/GPC), before changing the name to International Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators (IAL/GPC) in October 1985, the International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Coordinators at the conference in West Hollywood, California, and eventually to InterPride in the late 1990s.{{cite web | url=http://www.interpride.org/?page=history | title=History | publisher=InterPride | accessdate=July 4, 2014 | archive-date=January 21, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121040914/http://www.interpride.org/?page=history | url-status=dead }}
= Formation of InterPride =
In April 1981, Pride Coordinators Rick Turner and Marsha H. Levine, from San Francisco and Boston respectively, met at a "call to unite" for a gay and lesbian leadership conference in Los Angeles, to start an organization then known as NOLAG (National Organization of Lesbians and Gays). While discussing common issues that their individual Pride organizations faced, and remarking that their connections with the New York Pride and Los Angeles Pride committees were helpful for problem-solving, Rick and Marsha felt this trading of information was important and could develop into a potential network.
More than a year later in August 1982, Levine sent out a call for the First Annual Conference of the National Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators (NAL/GPC), to meet in Boston. Rick Turner (now deceased) declined joining in establishing the organization, due to his deteriorating health. With the aid of San Diego Pride Committee chairperson Doug Moore, who had been collecting a list of national pride organizations, and with small donations from the Los Angeles and Boston Pride Committees, the mailing list from Moore was used to distribute a self-mailing registration form designed and produced by Levine. Though many committees expressed an interest in attending, most didn't have the funds to send delegates at that time.
On October 9, 1982, in Hill House on Beacon Hill, members from the Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, and San Francisco Pride committees gathered in response to Levine's mailing. Three long tables were pushed together to make a triangular seating area. For two days many topics concerning coordinating LGBT prides was discussed, and while each city had different events, they discovered much of the planning and logistics was surprisingly similar. They voted to hold a second conference in San Diego the next year.{{cite news | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlotte-robinson/interpride-2012-co-chairs-on-celebrating-30-years-of-global-pride_b_1953861.html | title=InterPride 2012 Co-Chairs on Celebrating 30 Years of Global Pride | work=Huffington Post | date=October 12, 2012 | accessdate=July 4, 2014 | author=Robinson, Charlotte}}
= Milestones =
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|align=center|October 1985 | During the organization's conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with representatives of Toronto, Ontario, and Germany in attendance, the membership voted to officially change the organization's name from the National Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators, to the International Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators (IAL/GPC). The organization also pledged to continue reaching out to other countries. |
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|align=center|October 1997 | During the organization's conference in New York, its membership voted to establish the "WorldPride" title and awarded it to the city of Rome, Italy, for the year 2000. |
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|align=center|October 1999 | The first conference held outside North America, in Glasgow, Scotland. |
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|align=center|October 2001 | The first conference held in the southern hemisphere, in Auckland, New Zealand. Delegates were welcomed by the New Zealand Prime Minister. |
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|align=center|October 2003 | The first conference held in a city that did not use English as its primary language, in Montreal, Quebec. The conference itself was still conducted in English. |
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|align=center|October 2004 | The 22nd annual InterPride conference and the first conference held in a non-English speaking country, in Reykjavík, Iceland. |
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|align=center|May 2005 | The second WorldPride was postponed until August 2006, due to military and religious unrest in the region. |
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|align=center|June 2019 | Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 included Human Rights conference, festival and Pride March with 150,000 pre-registered participants among 695 groups. |
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|align=center|June 2020 | In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, co-produced Global Pride, reached more than 200 million people globally, thanks to coverage around the world, including in global titles Time Magazine, Forbes. |
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|align=center|October 2022 | The first ever General Meeting & World Conference in Latin America takes place in Guadalajara, Mexico. |
Membership
As of October 26, 2022, InterPride includes 338 member organizations from 70 countries.{{cite web |url=https://www.interpride.org/membership/ourmembers/ |title=Our Members |website=InterPride |access-date=26 October 2022}}
Annual General Meeting & World Conference
During the last three decades, pride organizations from almost every continent have participated in InterPride's annual world conference.{{cite news | url=http://dailyxtra.com/canada/news/xtra-heads-montreal-the-interpride-conference | title=Xtra heads to Montreal for the InterPride conference | work=Daily Xtra | date=October 8, 2013 | accessdate=July 4, 2014 | author=Houston, Andrea | archive-date=April 9, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409171225/http://dailyxtra.com/canada/news/xtra-heads-montreal-the-interpride-conference | url-status=dead }}
The conference is held each year in a different city, with the location of upcoming conferences being voted on two years prior to their occurrence. To demonstrate a commitment to support and empower the global LGBTI+ Pride community, the conference is now frequently held outside North America. Scholarships, through the Pamela O'Brien Memorial Scholarship Fund, are available for member organizations that cannot afford to attend. O'Brien was a longtime member of Cape Cod Pride in Massachusetts, US and served InterPride as a Regional Director and Vice President of Operations.{{cite web | url=http://www.interpride.org/?page=Scholarship | title=Scholarship | publisher=InterPride | accessdate=July 4, 2014 | archive-date=October 31, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031220909/http://www.interpride.org/?page=Scholarship | url-status=dead }}
In addition, several regional Pride networks hold their own conferences independent of InterPride.
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|+ World Conference and General Meetings{{cite web | url=http://www.interpride.org/?page=ThemesAGMHosts | title=Themes & Host Cities | publisher=InterPride | accessdate=July 4, 2014}} !Year !Host country !Host city !Host organization !Theme |
| 1982
|{{flag|United States}} |rowspan="2" {{N/a}} |
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| 1983
|{{flag|United States}} |
| 1984
|{{flag|United States}} |Wichita Pride |Unity & More in '84 |
| 1985
|{{flag|United States}} |Fort Lauderdale Pride |Alive with Pride in '85 |
| 1986
|{{flag|United States}} |Forward Together |
| 1987
|{{flag|United States}} |Baltimore Pride |Proud, Strong, United |
| 1988
|{{flag|United States}} |Rightfully Proud |
| 1989
|{{flag|Canada}} |Stonewall 20 – A Generation of Pride |
| 1990
|{{flag|United States}} |Look to the Future |
| 1991
|{{flag|United States}} |Together in Pride |
| 1992
|{{flag|United States}} |Long Beach Pride |Pride = Power |
| 1993
|{{flag|United States}} |A Family of Pride |
| 1994
|{{flag|United States}} |Fort Lauderdale Pride |Stonewall 25 – A Global Celebration of Lesbian & Gay Pride & Protest |
| 1995
|{{flag|United States}} |Pride – From Silence to Celebration |
| 1996
|{{flag|United States}} |Kansas City Pride |Pride Without Borders |
| 1997
|{{flag|United States}} |Equality Through Visibility |
| 1998
|{{flag|United States}} |West Hollywood Pride |Unity Through Diversity |
| 1999
|{{flag|United Kingdom}} |Prideful Past, Powerful Future |
| 2000
|{{flag|United States}} |Take Pride, Take Joy, Take Action |
| 2001
|{{flag|New Zealand}} |Embrace Diversity |
| 2002
|{{flag|United States}} |Pride Worldwide |
| 2003
|{{flag|Canada}} |Peace Through Pride |
| 2004
|{{flag|Iceland}} |Vive La Difference |
| 2005
|{{flag|United States}} |Equal Rights. No More. No Less. |
| 2006
|{{flag|United States}} |Portland Pride |Pride – Not Prejudice |
| 2007
|{{flag|Switzerland}} |Zurich Pride |United For Equality |
| 2008
|{{flag|Canada}} |Live Love Be |
| 2009
|{{flag|United States}} |St. Petersburg Pride |Your Rights, Our Rights, Human Rights |
| 2010
|{{flag|United States}} |Long Beach Pride |One Heart, One World, One Pride |
| 2011
|{{flag|Belgium}} |Brussels Pride |Pride Around the World |
| 2012
|{{flag|United States}} |Pride Links Us Together |
| 2013
|{{flag|Canada}} |Pride 365 |
| 2014
|{{flag|United States}} |Pittsburgh Pride |Reflections of Pride – Stonewall 45 |
| 2015
|{{flag|United States}} |Color Our World with Pride |
| 2016
|{{flag|France}} |Montpellier Pride |Solidarity Through Pride |
| 2017
|{{flag|United States}} |Indianapolis Pride |Viva la Vida |
| 2018
|{{flag|Canada}} |Remember the Past, Create the Future |
| 2019
|{{flag|Greece}} |Athens Pride |Millions of Moments of Pride |
| 2020
|{{flag|Norway}} |Oslo |Oslo Pride |Exist. Persist. Resist. |
| 2021
|colspan="3" align="center" |Hosted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic |#YouAreIncluded |
| 2022
|{{flag|Mexico}} |From Silence to Solidarity {{small|(English)}} |
| 2023
|{{flag|United States}} |rowspan="2" {{N/a}} |
| 2024
|{{flag|Colombia}} |Corporación Stonewall |
WorldPride
{{main|WorldPride}}
File:Marchers at Toronto Pride 2014.jpg WorldPride 2014 with signs commemorating significant events in LGBT history in Canada]]
WorldPride, licensed by InterPride and organized by one of its members, is an event that promotes visibility and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT pride) issues on an international level. WorldPride includes parades/marches, a human right conference, arts and culture festivals, and other activities.
At the 1997 world conference and general meeting InterPride members voted to award the inaugural WorldPride to be held in Rome in 2000. The host cities continue to be selected by the members of InterPride with WorldPrides usually held every two years.{{cite web | url=https://www.interpride.org/worldpride/| title=WorldPride | publisher=InterPride | accessdate=September 9, 2022}}
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! 2000 | {{flagicon|Italy}} Rome, Italy | 1 July – 9 July | The event was organized by the Italian gay rights organization Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale Mario Mieli along with InterPride and coincided with the Great Jubilee. |
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! 2006 | {{flagicon|Israel}} Jerusalem, Israel | 6 August – 12 August | Took place after a year of delays. The scheduled parade was denied a permit owing to the 2006 Lebanon War. The parade was instead held months later on 10 November at Givat Ram Stadium.Buchanan, Wyatt. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/26/MNG3HK5LC71.DTL "Broad Opposition to World Pride in Jerusalem"], The San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 2006. Accessed August 5, 2007.[http://www.advocate.com/news_detail.asp?id=16930 "Jerusalem gay rights group delays WorldPride events due to Gaza withdrawal"]{{Dead link|date=November 2010}}, The Advocate, May 17, 2005{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna15655229|title=Israelis hold gay pride rally in Jerusalem|work=NBC News|date=November 11, 2006|access-date=January 24, 2024}} |
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! 2012 | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} London, United Kingdom | 7 July | Held just ahead of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games during celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. Pride London planned a parade with floats, a large performance area in Trafalgar Square plus street parties in Golden Square and Soho. |
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! 2014 | {{flagicon|Canada}} Toronto, Canada | 20 June – 29 June | Pride Toronto, in partnership with the city's tourism agency, Tourism Toronto, submitted a bid to host WorldPride 2014. The 2009 annual conference of InterPride, held in St. Petersburg, Florida, US, voted to accept the bid of Pride Toronto to host WorldPride in North America for the first time. |
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! 2017 | {{flagicon|Spain}} Madrid, Spain | 23 June – 2 July | In October 2012, InterPride's membership voted at its annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts, US, to award WorldPride 2017 to Madrid Pride and the city of Madrid, Spain. |
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! 2019 | {{flagicon|United States}} New York City, United States | 1 June – 30 June | On October 19, 2015, NYC Pride announced that the city would host WorldPride to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.{{Cite web|title = New York City Will Host WorldPride 2019 To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Stonewall - Towleroad|url = http://www.towleroad.com/2015/10/new-york-city-will-host-worldpride-2019-celebrate-50th-anniversary-stonewall/|website = Towleroad|accessdate = 2015-10-20}} |
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! 2021 | {{flagicon|Denmark}} Copenhagen, Denmark and {{flagicon|Sweden}} Malmö, Sweden | 12 August – 22 August | For the first time, the hosting of WorldPride was shared by two neighbouring cities in the transnational Øresund Region, which comprises Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. It also coincided with the two cities' hosting of EuroGames 2021, an LGBTI+ inclusive sporting event that includes 29 sports with an estimated 6,000 athletes attending. |
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! 2023 | {{flagicon|Australia}} Sydney, Australia | 17 February – 5 March | For the first time, WorldPride was held in the southern hemisphere. This provided a focus on LGBTI rights and communities of the Asia Pacific region including a First Nations Hub dedicated to showcasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and culture. WorldPride coincided with Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. |
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! rowspan="2"| 2025 | {{flagicon|Taiwan}} | cancelled | In August 2022, the WorldPride 2025 Taiwan Preparation Committee announced it will give up hosting the event due to allegations InterPride insisted the word "Taiwan" be removed from the name of the event.[https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4624430 Taiwan drops bid to host WorldPride 2025 over naming row]，2022-8-12{{cite news |last1=Blanchard |first1=Ben |title=Taiwan blames politics for cancellation of global Pride event |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-blames-politics-cancellation-global-pride-event-2022-08-12/ |access-date=12 August 2022 |work=Reuters |date=12 August 2022}} |
| {{flagicon|United States}} Washington, D.C., United States
| 29 May – 8 June | In November 2022, the InterPride membership voted to accept the bid and proposal from Capital Pride to hold 2025 WorldPride in the nation's capital. |
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! 2026 | {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Amsterdam, Netherlands | 25 July – 8 August | The InterPride membership selected Amsterdam as the site of the 2026 WorldPride event. |
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! 2028 | {{flagicon|South Africa}} Cape Town, South Africa | TBA | The InterPride membership selected Cape Town as the site of the 2028 WorldPride event. It is set to be the first WorldPride event hosted in Africa. |
Controversies
InterPride allegedly rolled back on a decision to name its upcoming event "WorldPride 2025, Taiwan" and instead proposed "WorldPride 2025, Kaohsiung" which sparked suspicion from the public that the name change is politically motivated.{{cite web | url=https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202208120018 | title=Taiwanese organizers announce cancellation of WorldPride 2025 | publisher=Focus Taiwan| accessdate=Aug 19, 2022}} InterPride refuted this claim with the support of Taiwanese Pride organizers who were privy to the contract negotiation.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.interpride.org Official InterPride Web Site]
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