InterPride

InterPride
International Association of Pride Organizers
Founded	October 1982
Founders	Marsha H. Levine and Rick Turner (deceased)
Type	501(c)(3)
Focus	Organizations producing LGBT Pride parades
Area served	Global
Method	Capacity building, networking, sharing knowledge
Website	https://www.interpride.org/
Formerly called	National Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators, International Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators, International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Coordinators

Last updated January 25, 2025

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

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Milestones

Date	Milestone
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.
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.^[1]
October 1999	The first conference held outside North America, in Glasgow, Scotland.^[1]
October 2001	The first conference held in the southern hemisphere, in Auckland, New Zealand. Delegates were welcomed by the New Zealand Prime Minister.^[1]
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.^[1]
October 2004	The 22nd annual InterPride conference and the first conference held in a non-English speaking country, in Reykjavík, Iceland.^[1]
May 2005	The second WorldPride was postponed until August 2006, due to military and religious unrest in the region.^[1]
June 2019	Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 included Human Rights conference, festival and Pride March with 150,000 pre-registered participants among 695 groups.
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.
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.^[3]

Annual General Meeting & World Conference

During the last three decades, pride organizations from almost every continent have participated in InterPride's annual world conference.^[4]

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.^[5]

In addition, several regional Pride networks hold their own conferences independent of InterPride.^[2]

World Conference and General Meetings^[6]
Year	Host country	Host city	Host organization	Theme
1982	United States	Boston	Boston Pride	—
1983	United States	San Diego	San Diego Pride	—
1984	United States	Wichita	Wichita Pride	Unity & More in '84
1985	United States	Fort Lauderdale	Fort Lauderdale Pride	Alive with Pride in '85
1986	United States	San Francisco	San Francisco Pride	Forward Together
1987	United States	Baltimore	Baltimore Pride	Proud, Strong, United
1988	United States	St. Louis	Pride St. Louis	Rightfully Proud
1989	Canada	Vancouver	Vancouver Pride Society	Stonewall 20 – A Generation of Pride
1990	United States	Minneapolis	Twin Cities Pride	Look to the Future
1991	United States	Boston	Boston Pride	Together in Pride
1992	United States	Long Beach	Long Beach Pride	Pride = Power
1993	United States	Houston	Houston Pride	A Family of Pride
1994	United States	Fort Lauderdale	Fort Lauderdale Pride	Stonewall 25 – A Global Celebration of Lesbian & Gay Pride & Protest
1995	United States	Phoenix	Phoenix Pride	Pride – From Silence to Celebration
1996	United States	Kansas City	Kansas City Pride	Pride Without Borders
1997	United States	New York City	NYC Pride	Equality Through Visibility
1998	United States	West Hollywood	West Hollywood Pride	Unity Through Diversity
1999	United Kingdom	Glasgow	Glasgow Pride	Prideful Past, Powerful Future
2000	United States	Atlanta	Atlanta Pride	Take Pride, Take Joy, Take Action
2001	New Zealand	Auckland	Auckland Pride	Embrace Diversity
2002	United States	San Francisco	San Francisco Pride	Pride Worldwide
2003	Canada	Montreal	Fierté Montréal	Peace Through Pride
2004	Iceland	Reykjavík	Reykjavik Pride	Vive La Difference
2005	United States	Minneapolis	Twin Cities Pride	Equal Rights. No More. No Less.
2006	United States	Portland	Portland Pride	Pride – Not Prejudice
2007	Switzerland	Zürich	Zurich Pride	United For Equality
2008	Canada	Vancouver	Vancouver Pride Society	Live Love Be
2009	United States	St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg Pride	Your Rights, Our Rights, Human Rights
2010	United States	Long Beach	Long Beach Pride	One Heart, One World, One Pride
2011	Belgium	Brussels	Brussels Pride	Pride Around the World
2012	United States	Boston	Boston Pride	Pride Links Us Together
2013	Canada	Montreal	Fierté Montréal	Pride 365
2014	United States	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh Pride	Reflections of Pride – Stonewall 45
2015	United States	Las Vegas	Las Vegas Pride	Color Our World with Pride
2016	France	Montpellier	Montpellier Pride	Solidarity Through Pride
2017	United States	Indianapolis	Indianapolis Pride	Viva la Vida
2018	Canada	Saskatoon	Saskatoon Pride	Remember the Past, Create the Future
2019	Greece	Athens	Athens Pride	Millions of Moments of Pride
2020	Norway	Oslo	Oslo Pride	Exist. Persist. Resist.
2021	Hosted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic			#YouAreIncluded
2022	Mexico	Guadalajara	Guadalajara Pride	From Silence to Solidarity(English) Del Silencio a la Solidaridad(Spanish) Do Silêncio à Solidariedade(Portuguese) Du Silence à la solidarité(French)
2023	United States	San Diego	San Diego Pride	—
2024	Colombia	Medellín	Corporación Stonewall	—

WorldPride

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.^[7]

No.	Year	Host city	Date(s)	Notes
1	2000	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.
2	2006	Jerusalem, Israel	6 August – 12 August 10 November (parade)	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.^[8]^[9]^[10]
3	2012	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.
4	2014	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.
5	2017	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.
6	2019	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.^[11]
7	2021	Copenhagen, Denmark and 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 of 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.
8	2023	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.
9	2025	~~Kaohsiung, 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.^[12]^[13]
9	2025	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.
10	2026	Amsterdam, Netherlands	25 July – 8 August	The InterPride membership selected Amsterdam as the site of the 2026 WorldPride event.
11	2028	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.^[14] InterPride refuted this claim with the support of Taiwanese Pride organizers who were privy to the contract negotiation.

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "History". InterPride. Archived from the original on January 21, 2022. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
1 2 Robinson, Charlotte (October 12, 2012). "InterPride 2012 Co-Chairs on Celebrating 30 Years of Global Pride". Huffington Post. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
↑ "Our Members". InterPride. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
↑ Houston, Andrea (October 8, 2013). "Xtra heads to Montreal for the InterPride conference". Daily Xtra. Archived from the original on April 9, 2014. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
↑ "Scholarship". InterPride. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
↑ "Themes & Host Cities". InterPride. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
↑ "WorldPride". InterPride. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
↑ Buchanan, Wyatt. "Broad Opposition to World Pride in Jerusalem", The San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 2006. Accessed August 5, 2007.
↑ "Jerusalem gay rights group delays WorldPride events due to Gaza withdrawal" ^{[ dead link ‍]}, The Advocate, May 17, 2005
↑ "Israelis hold gay pride rally in Jerusalem". NBC News . November 11, 2006. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
↑ "New York City Will Host WorldPride 2019 To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Stonewall - Towleroad". Towleroad. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
↑ Taiwan drops bid to host WorldPride 2025 over naming row，2022-8-12
↑ Blanchard, Ben (12 August 2022). "Taiwan blames politics for cancellation of global Pride event". Reuters . Retrieved 12 August 2022.
↑ "Taiwanese organizers announce cancellation of WorldPride 2025". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved Aug 19, 2022.

External links

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[ip-history-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "History". InterPride. Archived from the original on January 21, 2022. Retrieved July 4, 2014.

[huffpo1012-2] 1 2 Robinson, Charlotte (October 12, 2012). "InterPride 2012 Co-Chairs on Celebrating 30 Years of Global Pride". Huffington Post. Retrieved July 4, 2014.

[3] "Our Members". InterPride. Retrieved 26 October 2022.

[xtra1013-4] Houston, Andrea (October 8, 2013). "Xtra heads to Montreal for the InterPride conference". Daily Xtra. Archived from the original on April 9, 2014. Retrieved July 4, 2014.

[ip-scholarship-5] "Scholarship". InterPride. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2014.

[ip-agm-6] "Themes & Host Cities". InterPride. Retrieved July 4, 2014.

[ip-worldpride-7] "WorldPride". InterPride. Retrieved September 9, 2022.

[8] Buchanan, Wyatt. "Broad Opposition to World Pride in Jerusalem", The San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 2006. Accessed August 5, 2007.

[9] "Jerusalem gay rights group delays WorldPride events due to Gaza withdrawal" ^{[ dead link ‍]}, The Advocate, May 17, 2005

[10] "Israelis hold gay pride rally in Jerusalem". NBC News . November 11, 2006. Retrieved January 24, 2024.

[11] "New York City Will Host WorldPride 2019 To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Stonewall - Towleroad". Towleroad. Retrieved 2015-10-20.

[12] Taiwan drops bid to host WorldPride 2025 over naming row，2022-8-12

[13] Blanchard, Ben (12 August 2022). "Taiwan blames politics for cancellation of global Pride event". Reuters . Retrieved 12 August 2022.

[taiwan-rollback-14] "Taiwanese organizers announce cancellation of WorldPride 2025". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved Aug 19, 2022.

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