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Plenary opening - Hosts, key-note speakers and acts disclosed soon. Brace yourself for surprises!
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Nadja Arontschik
Amber Witsenburg
Yasmin Benoit
Barbara Oud
JayJay Potter-Peachey
Stanley Starreveld DoesburgIdentities, relationships, and sexual lives are far more diverse and complex than the LGBTQIA+ acronym can ever fully capture. Yet in reality, if your community’s letter isn’t among the visible ones, what does this mean for the protection of your...
Identities, relationships, and sexual lives are far more diverse and complex than the LGBTQIA+ acronym can ever fully capture. Yet in reality, if your community’s letter isn’t among the visible ones, what does this mean for the protection of your rights, your history, and your place in society? Three often-marginalized communities that are frequently forgotten, erased, or excluded from mainstream LGBTQIA+ narratives come together to share the unique challenges they face in their daily lives. Each presents their specific struggles with rights, representation, and historical recognition, offering insights into their experiences and the systemic barriers they encounter.
Ramses Underhill Smith
Mark Segal
Tanja Ineke
Tamara AdriánLGBTQI+ elders across continents face critical, often overlooked challenges as they age. What happens when the veterans who fought for our rights are required to go back in the closet once they require elderly care? From social isolation to discrimination in...
LGBTQI+ elders across continents face critical, often overlooked challenges as they age. What happens when the veterans who fought for our rights are required to go back in the closet once they require elderly care?
From social isolation to discrimination in healthcare, senior housing, and a lack of culturally competent services: this session brings together speakers from the UK, Venezuela, USA, and the Netherlands to address these global issues. The panel will highlight innovative senior housing initiatives, 'Pink Passkey Certification for Elderly Care Facilities', and needs for policy changes to ensure that dignity, safety, and full inclusion for LGBTQI+ seniors worldwide does not get lost in ageing homes, senior housing, and elderly care.
Janice Tjon Sien Kie
Horim Yi
Enkhmaa Enkhbold
Ying Xin
Yanzi Peng
Masuma ShahidThis session explores global strategies for advancing LGBTQIA+ rights. The session opens with a keynote on strategic litigation that secured marriage equality across the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including Curaçao and Aruba. After this, speaker Masuma Shahid analyzes European and...
This session explores global strategies for advancing LGBTQIA+ rights. The session opens with a keynote on strategic litigation that secured marriage equality across the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including Curaçao and Aruba. After this, speaker Masuma Shahid analyzes European and American court cases. Lastly, a panel of activists from China, South Korea and Mongolia share their regional strategies and achievements in a panel. The session concludes with all activists responding, synthesizing how advocacy, litigation, and cross-regional collaboration can drive the global movement for marriage equality forward
Wanjiru GathangaIn a perfect world, solutions for social justice and LGBTQI+ equal rights would be embraced purely on their merit. But this isn’t a perfect world. We have to be smart about how we help people embrace change. ‘Brand the Change’...
In a perfect world, solutions for social justice and LGBTQI+ equal rights would be embraced purely on their merit. But this isn’t a perfect world. We have to be smart about how we help people embrace change. ‘Brand the Change’ is a proven, powerful mechanism to build close, long-term relationships with people. It is also notoriously complex and overwhelming. But we believe brand thinking can be taught. We democratize brand knowledge, so it can be used to address the greatest challenges of our time: climate change and social justice.
In this session, African Brand Strategist Wanjiru Gathanga of ‘Brand the Change’ explores the possibilties to brand Pride movements across geographic and economic lines, based on her case study of Pride branding.
Momo Adachi
Merel Ritsma
Kimberly Zieselman
Mani Bruce Mitchell
Obioma Chukwuike
Vidda Guzzo
Coco JervisWhat do LGBTQ+ movements miss when intersex voices are absent? More than most realize. This dynamic session brings together intersex activists from 6 continents to challenge assumptions, share lived realities and reveal why intersex issues are central to human rights,...
What do LGBTQ+ movements miss when intersex voices are absent? More than most realize.
This dynamic session brings together intersex activists from 6 continents to challenge assumptions, share lived realities and reveal why intersex issues are central to human rights, bodily autonomy, and inclusion. Through powerful storytelling, myth-busting and live polling, participants will confront common misconceptions and gain practical insight for stronger advocacy. The Missing Piece is not just a title—it’s a truth: intersex voices strengthen the entire LGBTQ+ community, making it more accurate, inclusive, and effective. Come curious, leave transformed and better equipped to act.
Patrick van der PasJarell Jones
John Boswell
Shishani - Performing ArtistMiko Czerwiński
Samaa Golderlyne
Mr Alex StorerThis special recognition ceremony honors outstanding individuals and organizationsadvancing LGBTQIA+ equality, human rights, and community service. Awards will bepresented to leaders making a meaningful impact, including a Pride organization whosework strengthens communities and inspires change. The session will also recognize...
This special recognition ceremony honors outstanding individuals and organizations
advancing LGBTQIA+ equality, human rights, and community service. Awards will be
presented to leaders making a meaningful impact, including a Pride organization whose
work strengthens communities and inspires change. The session will also recognize a
distinguished honoree from the previous year’s awards.
Graeme Reid
Jorge Noval Álvarez
Wim GeertsInternational coalitions and multilateral mechanisms—such as the Equal Rights Coalition, the UN Human Rights Council, treaty bodies, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), and regional human rights systems—have become important arenas to promote equal rights and counter backlash. States, independent experts...
International coalitions and multilateral mechanisms—such as the Equal Rights Coalition, the UN Human Rights Council, treaty bodies, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), and regional human rights systems—have become important arenas to promote equal rights and counter backlash. States, independent experts and civil society are drawing on a range of diplomatic tools to this end, including cross‑regional joint statements, SOGIESC‑inclusive language in resolutions, LGBTQIA+ focal points and groups of friends, inclusive development cooperation and financial support, human‑rights provisions in trade agreements, and quiet diplomacy alongside public advocacy.
Coffee and tea break
Across the world, courageous individuals are working – often in hostile circumstances – to create freedom and safe spaces for LGBTIQ+ people. Join us on 5 August for the International Pride Awards, a global celebration of the heroes advancing equality...
Across the world, courageous individuals are working – often in hostile circumstances – to create freedom and safe spaces for LGBTIQ+ people. Join us on 5 August for the International Pride Awards, a global celebration of the heroes advancing equality for people everywhere.
A joint initiative by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ILGA World, the International Pride Awards shines a light on the stories of those working towards a world where people can thrive in all their diversity. Come meet your LGBTIQ+ equality heroes, hear and share their incredible stories, and be inspired to make a more inclusive world.
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Ingeborg te Loo
Jade WillaertAnna Polkova
Giulia Bianchini
Coen Wessel
Bishop Gene Robinson
Dino SuhonicRosaliene Israel
Mariecke van den Berg
Misza Czerniak
dr. Theo Hettema
Johan Visser
Cecilia Eggleston
Miroslav MaťavkaLyoshka Gerassimenko
Wielie Elhorst
Mr. Haroon AliMr. Michael Brinkschröder
Elisabeth de Bruijn
Religious Pride: A day of interfaith dialogue on LGBTQIA+ inclusivity, exploring themes of representation, visibility, and acceptance across Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Islamic traditions. The programme opens with welcome remarks and an academic keynote, setting the stage for panels on...
Religious Pride: A day of interfaith dialogue on LGBTQIA+ inclusivity, exploring themes of representation, visibility, and acceptance across Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Islamic traditions. The programme opens with welcome remarks and an academic keynote, setting the stage for panels on structural barriers and inclusion. Following sessions delve into LGBTQIA+ inclusivity across four faiths, while the Rainbow Index presentation benchmarks progress. Through dialogue, it fosters understanding, shares best practices, and strengthens efforts to advance rights, recognition, and belonging in religious contexts globally, concluding with reflections on insights and commitments.
Kimberly Frost
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
Gurchaten Nanoo Sandhu
Imasha PereraA high-level discussion on the historical and contemporary role of trade unions in advancing LGBTQIA+ and human rights globally. As the Rainbow Network of the Dutch Trade Union (FNV) marks its 40th anniversary this year, the panel will reflect on...
A high-level discussion on the historical and contemporary role of trade unions in advancing LGBTQIA+ and human rights globally. As the Rainbow Network of the Dutch Trade Union (FNV) marks its 40th anniversary this year, the panel will reflect on the long-standing connection between labour movements and LGBTQIA+ organising, highlighting the unions' role in advancing inclusion and rights. At the same time the discussion examines how labour movements can evolve to meet today's realities, including protecting rights in times of democratic backsliding, strengthening broader social justice coalitions, and building solidarity across movements. The panel also explores how trade unions can contribute to progress on equality and human rights.
Kevin Wessels
Omar van ReenenWhat does Pride look like beyond the dominant narratives of North America and Europe?This session brings together activists and organizers from the Global Majority to sharepersonal stories of building Pride movements in complex social, political, and economiccontexts. From grassroots marches...
What does Pride look like beyond the dominant narratives of North America and Europe?
This session brings together activists and organizers from the Global Majority to share
personal stories of building Pride movements in complex social, political, and economic
contexts. From grassroots marches and community gatherings to acts of resistance under
hostile legal environments. Speakers will explore how Pride has been reimagined and
reclaimed to reflect local realities, histories, and struggles for liberation. The discussion will
examine the histories of Pride movements in the Global South, the politics of visibility and
safety, the role of Pride in advancing human rights, and the tensions created by
commercialization and homocapitalism.
Miguel Mesquita
Yanna Parnin
Maria Sjödin
Judith Tielen
Javier Fernandez GonzalezThis panel will look at the instruments available to international institutions, such as the UN, EU, Council of Europe and OAS, to help set an inclusive agenda and promote human rights. Speakers will highlight the institutional role in standard setting,...
This panel will look at the instruments available to international institutions, such as the UN, EU, Council of Europe and OAS, to help set an inclusive agenda and promote human rights. Speakers will highlight the institutional role in standard setting, monitoring and technical assistance, as well as major policy documents such as the European Commission’s LGBTQIA+ Equality Strategy 2026-2030.
Sithembiso Gongqa
Ms. Joey Joleen MataeleAfrican, Caribbean, and Pacific spiritual traditions have long understood gender and expressions beyond binaries. This session explores how pre-colonial spiritual practices affirmed diverse roles and expressions, and how contemporary healing ceremonies continue this legacy. Through dialogue, and shared wisdom, we’ll...
African, Caribbean, and Pacific spiritual traditions have long understood gender and expressions beyond binaries. This session explores how pre-colonial spiritual practices affirmed diverse roles and expressions, and how contemporary healing ceremonies continue this legacy. Through dialogue, and shared wisdom, we’ll examine the beauty of the sacred, and the power of rituals. Oral legends that can offer frameworks for inclusion, resilience, and community well-being.
Participants will leave informed and empowered on how reclaiming spiritual heritage can show a path for all religious forms worldwide—from divine androgyny to third-gender deities—and include queerness as tool for spiritual healing, wholeness, and collective liberation.
Olena Shevchenko
Anna Berbers
Charlene Liu
Mr. Raymond PhangThis session brings together three critical examinations of the complex dynamics between LGBTQIA+ movements and corporate/institutional support. It explores how international funding structures can unintentionally weaken civil society by creating dependency, competition, and mission drift. Also evaluated is whether Asian...
This session brings together three critical examinations of the complex dynamics between LGBTQIA+ movements and corporate/institutional support. It explores how international funding structures can unintentionally weaken civil society by creating dependency, competition, and mission drift. Also evaluated is whether Asian workplace LGBTQIA+ policies offer genuine support or merely performative allyship. Lastly, research is presented that investigates Pride organizers' tensions between protest legitimacy and corporate sponsorship, and the shift from pinkwashing to pinkhushing, where corporations scale back LGBTQIA+ support to avoid backlash. Together, this session aims to explore how to navigate complex financial necesities.
Mr Samuel Matsikure
Mx. Sahil Choudhary
Julia Lukomnik
Alma Aguilar Betancurt
Marcela MoralesLGBTQIA+ rights advocacy directly enhances community health and wellbeing. This session highlights concrete, community-driven examples of successful strategies linking community wellbeing to the need to improve LGBTQIA+ rights. With experts from the field we discuss how to call on decision-makers...
LGBTQIA+ rights advocacy directly enhances community health and wellbeing. This session highlights concrete, community-driven examples of successful strategies linking community wellbeing to the need to improve LGBTQIA+ rights. With experts from the field we discuss how to call on decision-makers to invest in inclusive, rights-based health programs, how to advocate effectively for health rights, and how to protect our own health and wellbeing.
Aidsfonds is one of the largest HIV-specific funders in the world, directly supporting communities with long-term, flexible, and core funding and funding for advocacy. COC Netherlands is a Dutch LGBTQIA+ rights group founded in 1946, and the oldest still operating LGBTQIA+ organisation in the world.
Neela Ghosal
Latiyah Orneill
Abhina Aher
Özgür Gur
Venus AvesThis Outright International workshop frames the global rise of anti-trans laws in 16+ countries (including bans on gender-affirming care and the 2026 UN CSW gender definition attempt) as a direct attack on LGBTQ+ cultural identity and historical narratives. These policies reflect...
This Outright International workshop frames the global rise of anti-trans laws in 16+ countries (including bans on gender-affirming care and the 2026 UN CSW gender definition attempt) as a direct attack on LGBTQ+ cultural identity and historical narratives.
These policies reflect an authoritarian playbook seeking to erase diverse gender expressions from public life and collective memory. The session features a panel with activists and academics, breakout groups to analyze cultural erasure tactics, and strategy development. Participants will explore protecting heritage, analyzing authoritarian threats to identity, and practicing counter-narratives to preserve LGBTQ+ cultural legacy.
Diogo Vieira da Silva
Dragana TodorovicAs LGBTQIA+ communities, we face growing digital hostility, misinformation, disinformation and other harmful forms of manipulated content. This session explores technology's complex impact on LGBTQIA+ communities through three expert presentations. The first expert analyzes how AI reinforces biases, creates discrimination, and...
As LGBTQIA+ communities, we face growing digital hostility, misinformation, disinformation and other harmful forms of manipulated content. This session explores technology's complex impact on LGBTQIA+ communities through three expert presentations. The first expert analyzes how AI reinforces biases, creates discrimination, and leads to harm, while proposing ethics frameworks to empower LGBTQIA+ individuals. The second presentation exposes tech-facilitated violence against LBTQ+ women, revealing how misogyny and LBTQ-phobia drive online harassment, surveillance, doxxing, and coordinated abuse campaigns. The last part provides a framework for responding to digital hostility, exploring how manipulated content circulates and can be countered.
Coffee and tea break
Rev. Alexander Noordijk
Reverend Jide Macaulay
Josie Peres
Ms Sharon "Rocky" RoggioStories shape belief. Belief shapes culture. Culture shapes people’s lives. This panel explores how faith, sexuality, and identity narratives influence LGBTQIA+ rights and can be reclaimed. Drawing from 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture, Sharon “Rocky” Roggio and Josie Peres convene Rev....
Stories shape belief. Belief shapes culture. Culture shapes people’s lives.
This panel explores how faith, sexuality, and identity narratives influence LGBTQIA+ rights and can be reclaimed. Drawing from 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture, Sharon “Rocky” Roggio and Josie Peres convene Rev. Jide Macaulay and Alexander Noordijk to examine who shapes these narratives, their impact, and what becomes possible when challenged toward dignity, inclusion, and human rights for activists, faith leaders, and communities worldwide.
Craig KonnothThis session delves into the challenges of banning conversion therapy and explores actionable steps to move forward. It examines the issue through both a legal and advocacy lens in achieving implementation that protects all. Additionally, the asexual community reveals through...
This session delves into the challenges of banning conversion therapy and explores actionable steps to move forward. It examines the issue through both a legal and advocacy lens in achieving implementation that protects all. Additionally, the asexual community reveals through presentation how current legal frameworks often fail to protect asexual individuals, leaving them vulnerable. Together, the speakers aim to clarify the barriers to comprehensive legislation, exposing the gaps and obstacles that currently prevent effective protection. Ultimately, they unite around a shared goal: establishing a functional and legally robust ban that safeguards all individuals at risk of exposure to harmful conversion practices.
Winston van Niel
Mr. Tomás Drouin
Ivan DimovQueer economic power is movement power. In a world where philanthropic funding leaves LGBTQI+ organizations vulnerable to political shifts, this session explores queer entrepreneurship, and LGBTQI+ economic incubators as the path to independence. How do we turn economic contribution into...
Queer economic power is movement power. In a world where philanthropic funding leaves LGBTQI+ organizations vulnerable to political shifts, this session explores queer entrepreneurship, and LGBTQI+ economic incubators as the path to independence. How do we turn economic contribution into unshakable power? Featuring founders of Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ social enterprise (Sofia) and a trans-led incubator (Lisbon), alongside StartOut (USA), PLUS Network (South Africa), and Dutch New Narrative Lab (Netherlands), we’ll use live polling to surface challenges and strategies for building economic power that sustains our movement beyond grants.
Michel Mau
Numan Afifi
Edric Huang
Dorian Burès
Aynouk Tan
Jerrald JustinAlberto Segundo Inzulza Galdames
Digital platforms can improve LGBTQIA+ health and wellbeing, from algorithmic influence to community-led innovation. This session features PlaySafe, TestXXX, RITA (Report IT Always), and Grindr for Equality, exploring how digital spaces can restore informed consent, drive HIV prevention and rights...
Digital platforms can improve LGBTQIA+ health and wellbeing, from algorithmic influence to community-led innovation. This session features PlaySafe, TestXXX, RITA (Report IT Always), and Grindr for Equality, exploring how digital spaces can restore informed consent, drive HIV prevention and rights monitoring through frameworks like CODE Strategies, make unsafety visible via the Report IT Always campaign, and build trusted sexual health tools. Speakers share insights on e-prevention, community co-designed solutions for PrEP and testing, performance-based reporting, and user-centered design based on 18,000 community members’ needs to create safer digital environments.
Aaron Pollard
Lily Alexandre
Unoma Azuah
Prince Frimpong
Yaël Pool
Carl Collison
Karin HazeAcross the Global South, queer storytellers create under censorship. Thanks to smartphones, queer activists now have unprecedented film-production access through devices they already own. No longer limited by expensive equipment, refugees, migrants, and diaspora filmmakers transform written texts and lived...
Across the Global South, queer storytellers create under censorship. Thanks to smartphones, queer activists now have unprecedented film-production access through devices they already own. No longer limited by expensive equipment, refugees, migrants, and diaspora filmmakers transform written texts and lived experiences into compelling short films. 75 SHOTS Pocket Cinema will showcase footage from a workshop they organized earlier that week through a Pride Empowerment Fund. Their co-created stories unite often unseen queer communities, proving storytelling power now fits in your palm—ready to challenge censorship and demand global visibility.
Simone Juárez
Arnie Joy T. Polares
Juan Pablo Quintana
Marvellous TawomheraThis panel brings together LGBTQIA+ trade union activists and organisers from Argentina, thePhilippines, Sri Lanka, Saint Lucia, and Zimbabwe to share their experiences of advancinginclusion in workplaces, trade unions, and wider society across different cultural, political, andsocial contexts. Through personal...
This panel brings together LGBTQIA+ trade union activists and organisers from Argentina, the
Philippines, Sri Lanka, Saint Lucia, and Zimbabwe to share their experiences of advancing
inclusion in workplaces, trade unions, and wider society across different cultural, political, and
social contexts. Through personal stories, practical examples, and lessons learned, the
discussion will offer insight into both the opportunities and challenges of LGBTQIA+ organising,
while recognising that the role and position of trade unions differs significantly across regions.
The session highlights the importance of mutual learning, cross-border solidarity, and supporting those working to create safer and more LGBTQIA+inclusive workplace environments.
Most Pride movements begin with a march. In Trinidad and Tobago, it began with a courtroom. When Jason Jones won his landmark 2018 High Court victory decriminalising same-sex intimacy, he didn't just change the law — he cracked open a door that...
Most Pride movements begin with a march. In Trinidad and Tobago, it began with a courtroom. When Jason Jones won his landmark 2018 High Court victory decriminalising same-sex intimacy, he didn't just change the law — he cracked open a door that a community stepped through. In this session, Jason shares the inside story of how a single legal battle became the unlikely spark for Pride in T&T: the organising that followed, the risks people took to show up, and what it means to build a movement in a country where visibility itself is an act of defiance. A reminder that Pride was never just a party — it was always, first, a fight.
Mark Takano
Hon Bernard Georges
Mmapaseka Steve Letsike
Janelle Chanona
Karen Makishima
Nick HerbertThis panel will look at the global pushback against LGBTQIA+ rights and inclusion, identifying the causes of this political tide, and what political leaders need to do to protect LGBTQIA+ people from further persecution. Legislators will share political strategies to...
This panel will look at the global pushback against LGBTQIA+ rights and inclusion, identifying the causes of this political tide, and what political leaders need to do to protect LGBTQIA+ people from further persecution. Legislators will share political strategies to advance inclusive policies, examining the power of coalition-building and cross-party consensus, identify the most urgent political priorities to safeguard hard-won rights, and offer thoughts on the best path forward to stop the pushback and secure lasting equality.
Networking lunch
Matthew Hart
Alexia PageAt a moment when anti-gender movements are reshaping democratic institutions, civic space, and the rules governing public life worldwide, the global funding landscape for LGBTI communities is entering a period of acute contraction and strategic uncertainty. After more than a...
At a moment when anti-gender movements are reshaping democratic institutions, civic space, and the rules governing public life worldwide, the global funding landscape for LGBTI communities is entering a period of acute contraction and strategic uncertainty. After more than a decade of growth, global LGBTI funding declined for the first time in over ten years, representing a 5% decline overall. Despite modest increases in some regions, LGBTI communities still receive less than $0.33 of every $100 in global foundation giving. Meanwhile, anti-gender actors mobilize resources at unprecedented scale. This session brings together senior philanthropic leaders, intermediaries, and movement partners, to examine how donors respond or fail to respond.
Where does the US LGBTQIA+ Pride Movement Go from Here in Respect to the World PrideMovement: History of founding of SF Pride and NY Pride and growth into National PrideMovement. History of Interpride and International Pride Movement, Rise of US...
Where does the US LGBTQIA+ Pride Movement Go from Here in Respect to the World Pride
Movement: History of founding of SF Pride and NY Pride and growth into National Pride
Movement. History of Interpride and International Pride Movement, Rise of US Govt.
Sponsored Oppression of LGBTQIA+ People: How Do We Respond?
Prides must continue to use their resources and maintain engagement in the World Pride
Movement. We must fight the urge to become isolationist and only concentrate on our local
issues. We must do this in the most humble way possible. We should lead by being servants
and centering the most marginalized people in the LGBTQIA+ international community.
Helen Belcher
Mr Alex Greenwich
Mx Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett
Natasha Steinberg
Kevin Maas
Ms Charlotte SpurkelandLGBTQIA+ equality is often discussed at the national level, but many of the decisions that affect our daily lives are made much closer to home. Across countries around the world, mayors, city councils and regional leaders create more inclusive communities,...
LGBTQIA+ equality is often discussed at the national level, but many of the decisions that affect our daily lives are made much closer to home. Across countries around the world, mayors, city councils and regional leaders create more inclusive communities, improve services and advance equal rights even when national governments are reluctant or negative to act.
Elected representatives discuss how local and regional political leadership can drive meaningful change for LGBTQIA+ people. Through examples, practical experiences and policy insights, the participants will share what can be achieved at the local and/or regional level and how successful initiatives can inspire elsewhere.
Kami Chouhdry
Sanaya Bal
Alex Hernandez
Midnight PoonkasetwattanaFrom Nepal to Peru, LGBTQI+ communities face unique mental health challenges, from stigma and criminalization to lack of support. This session brings together activists from different parts of the world to share community-driven initiatives: Nepal’s resilience strategies, Peru’s affirmative care...
From Nepal to Peru, LGBTQI+ communities face unique mental health challenges, from stigma and criminalization to lack of support. This session brings together activists from different parts of the world to share community-driven initiatives: Nepal’s resilience strategies, Peru’s affirmative care ecosystem serving 2,000 people with 500 trained professionals, Southeast Asia’s landmark CBO capacity report, and Pakistan’s safe spaces like Mehfooz Daira. They explore how evidence-based, culturally grounded approaches can shift systems, scale sustainably, and foster global solidarity in hostile contexts. Each presenter will share the situation in their setting, followed by a interactive panel discussion.
Morillio Williams
Doug A. GraffeoDiplomacy plays a crucial role in turning commitments on LGBTQIA+ rights into action. The Equal Rights Coalition, a partnership of 44 governments and civil society organizations, works internationally to advance LGBTQIA+ rights. COC developed the ERC Toolkit for Diplomats, a...
Diplomacy plays a crucial role in turning commitments on LGBTQIA+ rights into action. The Equal Rights Coalition, a partnership of 44 governments and civil society organizations, works internationally to advance LGBTQIA+ rights. COC developed the ERC Toolkit for Diplomats, a comprehensive resource offering practical, actionable guidance for engaging safely and effectively with LGBTQIA+ communities.
The toolkit is available in English, French, and Spanish, and is complemented by seven mini e-courses for broader uptake among ERC diplomats. This session explores how such tools can be applied in practice through real examples, lessons learned, and strategies to strengthen collaboration, trust, and impact in diverse political contexts.
Enes Dedeić
Juan Carlos Alonso RegueroBirgit Meyer
Ann Marie Gothard
Valentin Rion
Carmina Gustrán
Mario Colamarino
Diana RodriguezLGBTQIA+ communities transform historical oppression into lasting heritage. The session features: Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center co-founders on preserving the rebellion's legacy Examines 20th-century fascist persecution in Spain, Italy, Germany, and Argentina, and current efforts to memorialize victims And convenes global queer museum...
LGBTQIA+ communities transform historical oppression into lasting heritage. The session features:
- Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center co-founders on preserving the rebellion's legacy
- Examines 20th-century fascist persecution in Spain, Italy, Germany, and Argentina, and current efforts to memorialize victims
- And convenes global queer museum leaders to discuss how institutions protect intersectional stories and create social impact.
Through presentation and dialogue, we ask: Who tells queer history? What must be preserved? How can museums and memorials turn sites of persecution into spaces of education, empowerment, and remembrance for future generations?
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed
Rabbi Reuben ZellmanFor centuries, religious communities have been a source of support, yet LGBTQI+ people can face exclusion from spiritual care and community. Faith leaders—especially those who are LGBTQI+ themselves—hold unique power to drive change, fighting for inclusion of the very communities...
For centuries, religious communities have been a source of support, yet LGBTQI+ people can face exclusion from spiritual care and community. Faith leaders—especially those who are LGBTQI+ themselves—hold unique power to drive change, fighting for inclusion of the very communities they belong to.
In this session, Imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, Rabbi Reuben Zellman, and Reverend Jide Macauley will discuss their work advancing LGBTQI+ rights within their faiths. They will share how they navigate tradition and progress, challenge norms, and foster acceptance, while addressing their personal challenges, the impact of their advocacy, and their ongoing efforts to ensure no one is left behind.
Maria Giralt
Andoni IbáñezThe rise of extremist and populist movements across different regions of the world has been accompanied by an increase in hate speech and narratives targeting LGBTIQ+ people. Through misinformation, fear-based messaging, or the alleged defense of traditional values, these narratives...
The rise of extremist and populist movements across different regions of the world has been accompanied by an increase in hate speech and narratives targeting LGBTIQ+ people. Through misinformation, fear-based messaging, or the alleged defense of traditional values, these narratives undermine advances in equality, diversity, and human rights. This workshop provides practical tools to challenge these narratives, using real-life case studies and international examples. Participants will explore the common anti-LGBTIQ+ narratives promoted by far-right movements, understand their social and political impact, and develop effective strategies to respond to them through advocacy, institutional action, and civil society engagement.
Coffee and tea break
Micheal Ighodaro
Mathendu Muchoki
Godwin HarrisonAfrican queer histories have been erased by colonialism and conservatism, labeling queer identities and expressions as 'unafrican'. Through storytelling, film, archives, and cultural memory, rolemodels from across the continent and diaspora challenge narratives of erasure, restore ancestral identity, and celebrate...
African queer histories have been erased by colonialism and conservatism, labeling queer identities and expressions as 'unafrican'. Through storytelling, film, archives, and cultural memory, rolemodels from across the continent and diaspora challenge narratives of erasure, restore ancestral identity, and celebrate resilience. From queer royalty in royal households to fictional memory filling archival gaps, this session explores how reclaiming heritage fosters unity through collective dialogue. Together, history can be transformed towards a foundation for cultural pride, collective healing, and admiration for queer diversity from the Mother Continent.
Jose Manuel Rosas Vazquez
Javi Rodriguez Núñez
Priya NairAcross the globe, cities are on the frontlines of protecting and advancing LGBTQIA+ rights. While (inter)national frameworks provide essential structure, municipalities translate these commitments into tangible, lived realities through inclusive public services, anti-discrimination protections, safety measures, community funding, and visible...
Across the globe, cities are on the frontlines of protecting and advancing LGBTQIA+ rights. While (inter)national frameworks provide essential structure, municipalities translate these commitments into tangible, lived realities through inclusive public services, anti-discrimination protections, safety measures, community funding, and visible political leadership.
This panel brings together five member cities from the Rainbow Cities Network to showcase concrete municipal policy innovations that have measurably improved LGBTQIA+ lives, demonstrate the strategic role of local governments in navigating political polarization, and reinforce WorldPride as a unique space for policy leadership and peer learning.
50 Years of Sydney Mardi Gras: From the defiant 1978 protests to a global phenomenon, we
look back at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as it marches towards its Golden Jubilee
in 2028.
Scott Boule
Jeffrey O’Malley
Hon Daniel Molokele
Ts’epang Ts’ita-Mosena
Mr Micha Ramakers
Jessica SternThis panel will assess the current development landscape and the impact of scaled-back aid commitments on LGBTQIA+ programming, particularly in key areas such as education and public health. Experts will look at how shortfalls in funding can exacerbate inequalities, and...
This panel will assess the current development landscape and the impact of scaled-back aid commitments on LGBTQIA+ programming, particularly in key areas such as education and public health. Experts will look at how shortfalls in funding can exacerbate inequalities, and offer sustainable solutions that secure the health and happiness of marginalised communities.
Ms. Nayyab AliJoin Nayyab Ali (Harvard Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow), Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (founder of Europe’s first LGBT-inclusive mosque and the CALEM Institute), and Helem Lebanon’s Doumit and Sandy as they explore LGBTQI+ rights in Muslim-majority contexts. This session examines how faith,...
Join Nayyab Ali (Harvard Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow), Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (founder of Europe’s first LGBT-inclusive mosque and the CALEM Institute), and Helem Lebanon’s Doumit and Sandy as they explore LGBTQI+ rights in Muslim-majority contexts. This session examines how faith, progressive theology, legal frameworks, and grassroots activism intersect to create innovative pathways for justice, inclusion, and liberation for 1.2 billion Muslims globally. Bringing perspectives from different settings and communities, new pathways for LGBTQI+ inclusion can be investigated.
Marije Cornelissen
Pieter van RooijThis year we have a historical chance for Pride to be nominated as worldwide intangible heritage at UNESCO! For now, there is no recognised UNESCO cultural heritage related to the LGBTQIA+ community, but together we can change that. Heritage status will give Pride...
This year we have a historical chance for Pride to be nominated as worldwide intangible heritage at UNESCO! For now, there is no recognised UNESCO cultural heritage related to the LGBTQIA+ community, but together we can change that. Heritage status will give Pride recognition as cultural practice of the LGBTQIA+ community, and will help protect Prides in hostile political contexts. If we gain heritage status, other Prides in the world can join too and be better protected for the future. To achieve this worldwide status, we need to collect testimony of what Pride means to you. In this session, we will tell you all about the process and how you can contribute.
Mateo de la Torre
Gilbert Mitullah
Damien KwadjoHow are LGBTQI+ communities building power in contexts shaped by vastly different political realities? Through multimedia storytelling, facilitated dialogue, and peer exchange, participants will explore how LGBTQI+ people engage in civic life, movement-building, cultural organizing, advocacy, and political participation across...
How are LGBTQI+ communities building power in contexts shaped by vastly different political realities? Through multimedia storytelling, facilitated dialogue, and peer exchange, participants will explore how LGBTQI+ people engage in civic life, movement-building, cultural organizing, advocacy, and political participation across the Global Majority. Participants will exchange strategies, reflect on power imbalances, and identify practical ways to strengthen LGBTQI+ participation and collective action across diverse contexts.
Eric Ndawula
Brand BerghouwerMany LGBTQIA+ people carry an exhaustion that is hard to name: the cumulative weight of concealment, rejection, and navigating a world not built for them. For those from migrant or minority backgrounds, this weight is often doubled. This session introduces minority...
Many LGBTQIA+ people carry an exhaustion that is hard to name: the cumulative weight of concealment, rejection, and navigating a world not built for them. For those from migrant or minority backgrounds, this weight is often doubled.
This session introduces minority stress and a psychoeducational toolkit designed for LGBTQIA+ people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Through a panel discussion, people from different parts of the world join as co-reflectors, exploring together whether these tools translate across cultures and what truly inclusive mental health support can look like.
Anna Paula Lima Botelho
Jeroen Eijkemans
Mir Tonnaer
Ronald PurmerThe Amsterdam Center for Sex Workers is organizing an interactive masterclass centering on LGBTQI+ sex workers. The session brings together sex workers, policymakers, and care professionals and focuses on themes such as rights, care, stigma, and expertise by experience. Through dialogue,...
The Amsterdam Center for Sex Workers is organizing an interactive masterclass centering on LGBTQI+ sex workers. The session brings together sex workers, policymakers, and care professionals and focuses on themes such as rights, care, stigma, and expertise by experience.
Through dialogue, storytelling, and knowledge sharing, the aim is to work towards empowerment, visibility, and more inclusive policies and services. The masterclass promotes international knowledge exchange and strengthens collaboration between the community and institutions.
Networking drinks
Registration, coffee and tea
Information market, stand up talks, poster wall
This program explores how inclusive leadership drives cultural transformation, strengthens organisational resilience, and unlocks the full potential of diverse talent—particularly during times of economic uncertainty, political pressure, and rapid societal change. The conference programme features a diverse array of keynote conversations, panels,...
This program explores how inclusive leadership drives cultural transformation, strengthens organisational resilience, and unlocks the full potential of diverse talent—particularly during times of economic uncertainty, political pressure, and rapid societal change.
The conference programme features a diverse array of keynote conversations, panels, Global Town Halls, and 10 breakout sessions designed to explore a wide range of topics, perspectives, and real-world challenges facing organisations today. These sessions create space for meaningful dialogue, practical learning, and the exchange of ideas that participants can bring directly back into their workplaces and communities.
The three Global Town Halls provide a platform for international perspectives and open exchange between regions, industries, and communities. They spotlight the realities of inclusion across different cultural and political landscapes, while encouraging collective learning and shared accountability.
At the centre of the programme is Voices of Inclusion—a powerful series of lived experiences and personal stories that bring authenticity and human connection into the conversation. These voices challenge assumptions, inspire reflection, and reinforce the importance of creating workplaces where everyone feels seen, valued, and empowered to thrive.
Several breakout sessions will focus specifically on tangible outcomes for businesses navigating challenging times. Participants will gain practical strategies, measurable approaches, and actionable insights to help organisations strengthen inclusive leadership, sustain employee engagement, and build resilient workplace cultures.
Throughout the conference, participants will explore:
• How inclusive leadership shapes decision-making at the highest levels
• Practical strategies to embed LGBTIQ+ inclusion across global workplaces
• The role of allyship, accountability, and intersectionality in leadership
• Real-world case studies
Workplace inclusion is no longer optional—it defines how organisations lead, innovate, and grow. As Workplace Pride marks its 20th anniversary, this international conference brings together global leaders, changemakers, and professionals to explore what it truly means to lead with inclusion in today’s complex and fast-changing world.
Gregory Rodrigues Roque de SouzaThis lecture explores the vital role of journalism and the media in advancing human rights, strengthening democratic institutions, and increasing the visibility of LGBTQIA+ issues. Drawing on practical experience in advocacy and strategic communications, the presentation will examine how Pride...
This lecture explores the vital role of journalism and the media in advancing human rights, strengthening democratic institutions, and increasing the visibility of LGBTQIA+ issues. Drawing on practical experience in advocacy and strategic communications, the presentation will examine how Pride organizers can build effective partnerships with journalists and media outlets to amplify community voices and foster meaningful public engagement. It will also highlight how responsible and inclusive media coverage can help combat misinformation, challenge stigma and discrimination, and contribute to more equitable, diverse, and democratic societies.
Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell
Christian PaulaWhat happens when we stop assuming there is only one path to LGBTQIA+ liberation — or one place to imagine it from? This session brings three perspectives that challenge dominant human rights narratives, reimagining justice from the Global South and...
What happens when we stop assuming there is only one path to LGBTQIA+ liberation — or one place to imagine it from? This session brings three perspectives that challenge dominant human rights narratives, reimagining justice from the Global South and its diasporas: decolonial Maricx-Cuir approaches to transitional justice and memory; Afrofuturism as a framework for legal systems beyond today's institutions; and a reclaiming of constitutional and religious traditions within Sharia-influenced systems beyond simplistic narratives about Muslim-majority states. Together, these perspectives invite participants to rethink justice, leadership, and liberation through diverse cultural, historical, geographic, and political lenses.
Few of us dreamed as children of being recognized by UN bodies or international LGBTQIA+ movements. Yet life’s curveballs often lead us into advocacy. This dialogue explores the personal journeys of UN Pride Award winners, delving into the challenges they’ve overcome,...
Few of us dreamed as children of being recognized by UN bodies or international LGBTQIA+ movements. Yet life’s curveballs often lead us into advocacy.
This dialogue explores the personal journeys of UN Pride Award winners, delving into the challenges they’ve overcome, the innovative strategies they’ve employed, and the transformative impact of their work on LGBTQIA+ rights and governance globally. From grassroots movements to international policy influence, the winners will share experiences, lessons, and vision—offering unique insights into the power of recognition, strategies for systemic change, and practical ways to turn inspiration into action for a more inclusive, equitable, and just world.
Jean Chong Alma Aguilar Betancurt
Margriet van Heesch
Daniel Benitez-Posada Obioma Chukwuike
Felix Giannerini Kimberly Zieselman
Ms Rituparna BorahHow do patriarchal systems impact LGBTQI+ bodies? For many LGBTQI+ people, bodily integrity remains a distant reality. Forced childhood surgeries, conversion therapy, 'corrective' rape, forced medication, and honor-based violence are just some of the violences they endure. Systemic denial also takes...
How do patriarchal systems impact LGBTQI+ bodies?
For many LGBTQI+ people, bodily integrity remains a distant reality. Forced childhood surgeries, conversion therapy, 'corrective' rape, forced medication, and honor-based violence are just some of the violences they endure. Systemic denial also takes the form of inaccessible gender-affirming care, exclusion from sports, or reproductive services withheld without male consent.
This session exposes these enormous barriers and explores powerful, community-driven solutions to reclaim bodily autonomy and resist systemic attacks. With speakers representing intersex, transgender, and LBQ+ Activists from around the world, they unite in their fight to secure bodily autonomy for all.
Jarko De Witte van Leeuwen
Suleiya AbdillahArtivism—where art meets activism—is a powerful tool for LGBTQIA+ advocacy, resistance, liberation, and visibility. This session features Cynthia Bhuyan presenting a collective work from a Bangladeshi Artivism Project, supporting queer youth living with HIV and stigma through collaborative art. Sharan Bala...
Artivism—where art meets activism—is a powerful tool for LGBTQIA+ advocacy, resistance, liberation, and visibility.
This session features Cynthia Bhuyan presenting a collective work from a Bangladeshi Artivism Project, supporting queer youth living with HIV and stigma through collaborative art. Sharan Bala discusses how creative expression challenges intersex stigma, medicalization, and erasure through visual art and storytelling. Jarko De Witte van Leeuwen shares on his The Growing Wall of Love, uniting 3,300+ people from 94 countries in a message of safety, equality, and visibility. Suleiya Abdi shares how music becomes a safe space for sharing lived experiences.
Ms Eunice Chau
Saskia WieringaThis session spotlights the widening gap between visibility and vulnerability across Asia, where Pride movements navigate censorship, surveillance, or bans. From Hong Kong’s resilient IDAHOBIT+ spirit and PrideLab’s creative formats like rainbow picnics and artivism walks, to Indonesia’s rich yet...
This session spotlights the widening gap between visibility and vulnerability across Asia, where Pride movements navigate censorship, surveillance, or bans. From Hong Kong’s resilient IDAHOBIT+ spirit and PrideLab’s creative formats like rainbow picnics and artivism walks, to Indonesia’s rich yet suppressed history of gender diversity and postcolonial amnesia. Voices from organizations across Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and the diaspora share how they reclaim public spaces, shape narratives through stories, comics, podcasts, and film, and demand equitable representation on global stages.
Coffee and tea break
Mr Thomars Shamuyarira
Mr. Mariano Ruiz
Basel Abou Hamrah
Latoya NugentAcross the world, rising anti-LGBTQIA+ criminalization, violence, and persecution are forcing more people to flee their homes. At the same time, access to asylum and protection is becoming more restricted, leaving many LGBTQIA+ people with fewer pathways to safety. This...
Across the world, rising anti-LGBTQIA+ criminalization, violence, and persecution are forcing more people to flee their homes. At the same time, access to asylum and protection is becoming more restricted, leaving many LGBTQIA+ people with fewer pathways to safety. This session asks: What is changing? What are policymakers, advocates, and humanitarian protection actors missing? And what solutions are working? Join Rainbow Railroad alongside global partners for a timely discussion on the realities driving queer forced displacement and the growing movement for queer-led protection. The session will also spotlight the recently launched Queer Forced Displacement Network and its emerging vision for collective advocacy and durable solutions.
Mr. Lucas Paoli ItaborahyClaire Fletcher
Akira Nishiyama
Michael ArnaudKim Vance-Mubanga
Mark Bromley
LGBTQIA+ communities are impacted economically worldwide. This session start with a focus on poverty alleviation and human rights advocacy by presenting Micro Rainbow’s economic empowerment models from Brazil, the UK, and Cambodia—microenterprise support, tailored financial inclusion, and innovative safe housing—through...
LGBTQIA+ communities are impacted economically worldwide. This session start with a focus on poverty alleviation and human rights advocacy by presenting Micro Rainbow’s economic empowerment models from Brazil, the UK, and Cambodia—microenterprise support, tailored financial inclusion, and innovative safe housing—through success stories and data. Then, Pride7 discusses how their advocacy at G7 and G20 level can drive global economic wellbeing and poverty reduction through international policy coordination, financial commitments, and development initiatives. Together, these segments reveal the intersection of economic empowerment and policy advocacy in advancing LGBTQIA+ justice.
How have Prides worldwide amplified the fight for marriage equality? This session explores the pivotal role of Pride movements in platforming equal love—from visibility to policy change. Join to discuss strategies, successes, and the ongoing global journey toward inclusive marriage...
How have Prides worldwide amplified the fight for marriage equality? This session explores the pivotal role of Pride movements in platforming equal love—from visibility to policy change. Join to discuss strategies, successes, and the ongoing global journey toward inclusive marriage rights for all.
Averaii Dirks
Jahnell Butler
Sage Elle Hapke
Jazzelle Bonilla
Rena JanamnuaysookNisha Ayub
Ms. Alexandra R DeRuiz
This session explores how community-driven shelters and support services—rooted in lived experience—offer culturally attuned, accessible care, building trust, cultural relevance, and adaptability—often missing in institutional services. Institutional services often fail to connect due to bureaucratic structures, lack of cultural competency,...
This session explores how community-driven shelters and support services—rooted in lived experience—offer culturally attuned, accessible care, building trust, cultural relevance, and adaptability—often missing in institutional services. Institutional services often fail to connect due to bureaucratic structures, lack of cultural competency, and distance from lived realities, resulting in gaps in responsiveness, dignity, and tailored support. We’ll highlight models centering autonomy, collective decision-making, solidarity, addressing these gaps. Join to share and learn from grassroots initiatives prioritizing sustainability, self-determination, community empowerment.
Networking lunch
Grace MckenzieSport is a human right under threat by IOC plans for genetic testing and athlete bans. This 75-minute session from a global sport coalition (including the Sport & Rights Alliance, Humans of Sport, Centre for Sport & Human Rights, Federation of...
Sport is a human right under threat by IOC plans for genetic testing and athlete bans. This 75-minute session from a global sport coalition (including the Sport & Rights Alliance, Humans of Sport, Centre for Sport & Human Rights, Federation of Gay Games, and the European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation) offers a roadmap to resist institutional exclusion. The session focuses on defending bodily autonomy against "genetic policing", aligning sport with UN privacy standards, and launch a "Declaration on Bodily Autonomy" to unify pressure on international bodies.
Gift Trapence
Essy Adhiambo
Lodewijk Wigersma
Godfred Aboagye KuttinMars Planting
Vidda Guzzo Mani Bruce MitchellTransitions in activism are inevitable, but why do older activists feel pushed out while younger ones feel stuck—sometimes because elders aren’t leaving? This session explores intergenerational grace, arguing both generations can coexist, learn, and build powerful movements without choosing either/or. We...
Transitions in activism are inevitable, but why do older activists feel pushed out while younger ones feel stuck—sometimes because elders aren’t leaving? This session explores intergenerational grace, arguing both generations can coexist, learn, and build powerful movements without choosing either/or.
We discuss extending grace to founders transitioning out: how to support them, plan for succession, acknowledge burnout, and recognize older activists may lack time or compensation to mentor. The session opens with a 20-min presentation on Intergenerational Grace, followed by conversations with three intergenerational duos.
Pride organizations can effectively advocate for Trans and Intersex rights at the national, regional, and international levels through Narrative Advocacy. By centering and uplifting Trans and Intersex people’s stories we drive policy change by transforming data into compelling personal stories...
Pride organizations can effectively advocate for Trans and Intersex rights at the national, regional, and international levels through Narrative Advocacy. By centering and uplifting Trans and Intersex people’s stories we drive policy change by transforming data into compelling personal stories that create empathy, shift public perception, and influence decision-makers. By connecting with audiences on an emotional level rather than just presenting facts, it turns abstract issues into relatable, human-centered stories that move people to action.
Omer Elad
Tamás Péter ÖtvösWhat does Pride mean when governments monitor, intimidate or silence those who march? Activists from Hungary, China and Israel explore resistance under surveillance. From Hungary, hear how a government Pride ban sparked the largest international Pride turnout in the country's...
What does Pride mean when governments monitor, intimidate or silence those who march? Activists from Hungary, China and Israel explore resistance under surveillance. From Hungary, hear how a government Pride ban sparked the largest international Pride turnout in the country's history. A Chinese activist shares experiences of digital surveillance and shrinking civic space. From Israel, a trans-led NGO shares on operating at an intersection: fighting for gender self-determination during an increased local an global hostility while standing in radical solidarity with Palestine. The session concludes with researchers from Belgium presenting an AI-resistant Pride shirt designed to reduce facial recognition during Pride marches.
Experience a historic session where former LGBTQIA+ presidents, prime ministers, and state leaders reflect on shattering barriers in global leadership. Their political journeys of perseverance reveal how their representation redefined possibility, inspired change, and created pathways for a more inclusive...
Experience a historic session where former LGBTQIA+ presidents, prime ministers, and state leaders reflect on shattering barriers in global leadership. Their political journeys of perseverance reveal how their representation redefined possibility, inspired change, and created pathways for a more inclusive LGBTQIA+ futures in politics and society.
Coffee and tea break
Grand final closing - Hosts, key-note speakers and acts disclosed soon. Brace yourself for surprises!
ANNA BERBERS
Dr.
CHARLENE LIU
Chairperson
RAYMOND PHANG
Co-founder
BERNARD GEORGES
Leader of the Opposition
MMAPASEKA STEVE LETSIKE
Deputy Minister
SAHIL CHOUDHARY
Program Director, New Delhi LGBTQIA+ Centre
KELLISON BENJAMINE SACKEY
Executive Director
GODFRED ABOAGYE KUTTIN
Co-Executive Director
MATEO DE LA TORRE
Director of Global Programs
MORILLIO WILLIAMS
Global Advocacy Adviser
GIFT TRAPENCE
Executive Director
LODEWIJK WIGERSMA
chair
VIDDA GUZZO
Executive Director
GODWIN HARRISON
Creative Director/Founder
SITHEMBISO GONGQA
Founder/Executive Director
PRINCE FRIMPONG
Co-Executive Director
MATHENDU MUCHOKI
Filmmaker, Curator & Head of Communications
JEAN CHONG
Executive Director
OBIOMA CHUKWUIKE
Executive Director
KIMBERLY ZIESELMAN
Senior Advisor Global Intersex Rights
RITUPARNA BORAH
Director
MIGUEL MESQUITA
Human Rights Monitoring Coordinator
YANNA PARNIN
Head of SOGIESC Unit
MARIA SJÖDIN
Executive Director
JANICE TJON SIEN KIE
Founder
NAPHAT KRUTTHAI
SOGIESC Inclusion and Corporate Engagement oficer
HORIM YI
Co-Executive Director
BRAND BERGHOUWER
psychosocial therapist
ALEX HERNANDEZ
Executive Director
JAVI RODRIGUEZ NÚÑEZ
Commissioner
EDRIC HUANG
Senior Manager, Grindr for Equality
AYNOUK TAN
Board member
THOMARS SHAMUYARIRA
Founder and Director
LATOYA NUGENT
Chief Communications & Advocacy Officer
MARIANO RUIZ
Executive Director
BASEL ABOU HAMRAH
Rainbow Refuge Team
EUNICE CHAU
Programme Manager (Gender Education and Advocacy)
SASKIA WIERINGA
Professor emeritus
HELEN BELCHER
Councillor for Wiltshire
ALEX GREENWICH
Member of Parliament
MATTHEW HART
Executive Director
TAMARA ADRIÁN
Doctor in Law
MEREL RITSMA
Board Member
WINSTON VAN NIEL
Board Member
TOMÁS DROUIN
Co-Founder and President
IVAN DIMOV
Founder & Co-CEO
SCOTT BOULE
Senior Specialist, Parliamentary Affairs
DANIEL MOLOKELE
Hon MP
JOSIE PERES
EDI Manager and Associate Producer
SHARON "ROCKY" ROGGIO
Director / Producer
JIDE MACAULAY
Founder/CEO
DIOGO VIEIRA DA SILVA
Coordenator
DRAGANA TODOROVIC
Executive Director
SHARAN BALA
Artist
JARKO DE WITTE VAN LEEUWEN
Culture maker
SULEIYA ABDILLAH
Executive Director
REUBEN ZELLMAN
Rabbi
LILY ALEXANDRE
Founder
VENUS AVES
Communications
LUCAS PAOLI ITABORAHY
Project Manager
MICHAEL ARNAUD
Exercutive directiion
AKIRA NISHIYAMA
Counsellor
CLAIRE FLETCHER
Policy Manager
SAMUEL MATSIKURE
Team Lead
JOSE MANUEL ROSAS VAZQUEZ
Managing Director
NATASHA STEINBERG
Directora General de Derechos Humanos
KIMBERLY FROST
co-Secretary General
SIMONE JUÁREZ
Secretary of Gender & Diversity
ARNIE JOY T. POLARES
National Treasurer
JUAN PABLO QUINTANA
Advisor & Organiser
ADRIAN HYYRYLAINEN-TRETT
Board Member
FELIX GIANNERINI
Student
GURCHATEN NANOO SANDHU
Director of Programmes
YASMIN BENOIT
Asexual Activist
BARBARA OUD
Executive Director
JAYJAY POTTER-PEACHEY
Vice President, Member Services/ Lead Kink & Fetish Caucus
SAGE ELLE HAPKE
Associate Director
JAHNELL BUTLER
Director Of Trans Services
AVERAII DIRKS
Advocate
MIR TONNAER
Sexual Health nurse
JUDITH TIELEN
State Secretary
MICHA RAMAKERS
Deputy Head of Unit
TS’EPANG TS’ITA-MOSENA
Deputy Speaker
CHARLOTTE SPURKELAND
Governing Major
HENK NIJMEIJER
Regenboogambassadeur
ALEXIA PAGE
Head of Philanthropy
MIROSLAV MAŤAVKA
Activist
JADE WILLAERT
Doctoral researcher
COEN WESSEL
General Secretary
INGEBORG TE LOO
Pastor
HAROON ALI
Writer
GENE ROBINSON
Retired Anglican Bishop
MISZA CZERNIAK
former Co-President, co-leader of the Orthodoxy Working Group
DOUMIT AZZI
Communications & Advocacy Manager
THEO HETTEMA
policy officer
DINO SUHONIC
Executive Director
MICHAEL BRINKSCHRÖDER
Officer for Queerpastoral
GIULIA BIANCHINI
Senior Project Officer
NAYYAB ALI
Executive Director
XIAOGANG WEI
Président
TAMÁS PÉTER ÖTVÖS
Organiser, PR team
OMER ELAD
CEO
JUAN CARLOS ALONSO REGUERO
Co-Representative for Region 14 on InterPride´s Global Advisory Council
COCO JERVIS
Director of Programmes
MIDNIGHT POONKASETWATTANA
Executive Director
JULIA LUKOMNIK
Strategic Policy Advisor
GRACE MCKENZIE
Co-Founder of Rugby For All
DAMIEN KWADJO
Co-Founder
MARCELA MORALES
organization and policy advocacy officer
JESSICA STERN
Co-President
ISOBEL STAINSBURY
European Pride Organisers Association (EPOA), Human Rights coordinator
JARELL JONES
Board member of LA Pride
MIKO CZERWIŃSKI
VP for Human Rights & Diversity, InterPride
KEVIN WESSELS
Advocacy and Legal Officer
SUZANNE FORD
Executive Director San Francisco Pride
MARSHA H. LEVINE
InterPride Founder
ALEXANDRA R DERUIZ
Sex and Gender Freelance Consultant
JORGE NOVAL ÁLVAREZ
Senior Policy Officer
DIANE MINNIS
Vice President of Global Outreach
KATHY PAVLICH
Co-Chair of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG)
JESSE MATHESON
Chief Executive Officer of Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
LUCIA ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ
Director of We Are Fair Initiative
GREGORY RODRIGUES ROQUE DE SOUZA
Social Media Advisor
JORDAN BRAXTON
Community Engagement Manager at Vivent Health
JAN PIETER DE LUGT
Chairperson
NICK HERBERT
Chair
ALEX STORER
Co-chair of InterPride's Human Rights & Diversity Committee and member of the InterPride WorldPride committee
MARVELLOUS TAWOMHERA
National Young Workers Chairperson
ANDONI IBÁÑEZ
Project Manager
MARIA GIRALT
VP
OMAR VAN REENEN
Co-chair of InterPride's Human Rights & Diversity Committee and member of the InterPride WorldPride committee
KARIN HAZE
Founder
JAVIER FERNANDEZ GONZALEZ
Policy officer
CHRISTIAN PAULA
Phd student
ROBERT AKOTO AMOAFO
Advocacy Advisor
MARK BROMLEY
Co-Chair
DOUG A. GRAFFEO
Senior Officer
IMASHA PERERA
Exco Team Lea