InterPride 2019
AGM & World Conference
Athens, Greece Oct 17-20 2019
InterPride is the United Nations to the LGBT+ Prides & Communities around the world. Mark & Carrie were honored to represent Tampa. At this year’s conference there were 664 people from 142 different countries. Over the 4-day conference there were 40+ special workshops, 3 AGM meetings and many group breakdowns. It is interesting how so many different pride organizations have similar goals and situations to work thru. The conference was in English, French, Portages and Spanish.
The AGM (Annual General Meeting) & World Conference is held every year. Next year the AGM will be in Oslo Norway. At this year meeting Winnipeg, Canada & Guadalajara, Mexico competed to host AGM in 2021. The Winner was Guadalajara! InterPride also co-hosts a World Pride ever 2 years. This year World Pride was in New York City. 2021 World Pride will be in Copenhagen, Denmark. Competing for World Pride 2023 was Montreal, Canada – Sidney, Australia & Houston, Texas. All three gave exciting & interesting presentations. The winner was Sidney!
There were so many interesting things to learn. Even more interesting, new people to meet and many new friendships were started. At the start of the conference AGM there was a call to change the co-presidents. Currently there are 2; a female identifying & a male identifying person. The group wanted to add a Non-Binary co-president. We thought the group handled the situation perfectly. After some bylaws were changed there was a 3rd co-President Non-Binary person added to the board.
Opening night there was a reception at The Residence of Netherlands Ambassador. Closing night was a dinner and Gala at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. (more below)
Our hosts in Athens Pride, Andrea Gilbert & Giannis Papagiannopoulos did an amazing job. Incredibly well organized with every detail thought out. The volunteers made everyone feel welcomed. Athen Pride is 15 years old with 100,000 participants. Following the AGM we took a 5 day cruise island hopping around Greece.
