InterPride

InterPride

Founded	October 1982 (1982-10)
Founder	Rick Turner and Marsha H. Levine
Type	501(c)(3)
Focus	Organizations producing LGBT Pride parades and other events
Area served	Global
Method	Capacity build, coalition building, public education
Slogan	InterPride is the International Association of LGBTI Pride Organizers.
Website	Official website
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

InterPride is an international organization representing and composed of producers of pride events for the LGBT community that celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) culture and pride.

History

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Image from the first WorldPride, 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.

Formation of InterPride

In April 1981, Pride Coordinators Rick Turner and Marsha H. Levine, from San Francisco and Boston respectively, met at the "call to unite" – a gay and lesbian leadership conference in Los Angeles, and the start of 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 declining health. With the aid of San Diego Pride Committee and 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 the 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.

The 16 people in attendance at that first gathering were:

Boston - Marsha H. Levine

New York - Tony Gambino [deceased] (and partner), Brian O'Dell, David Colle [deceased], Janet Love, Fred Goldhaber [deceased], R. Paul Martin

San Francisco - Konstantine Berlandt [deceased], Glenne McElhinney

Chicago - Rich Pfeiffer

San Diego - Doug Moore

Los Angeles - George Piazzi, Sharon Tobin, Cheryl Ruddy [deceased], Sean Johnson [deceased]

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.
October 1999	The first conference held outside North America, in Glasgow, Scotland.
October 2001	The first conference held in the southern hemisphere, in Auckland, New Zealand. Delegates were welcomed by the New Zealand Prime Minister.
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.
October 2004	The 22nd annual InterPride conference and the first conference held in a non-English speaking country, in Reykjavik, Iceland.
May 2005	The second WorldPride was postponed until August 2006, due to military and religious unrest in the region.

Membership

The organization's membership comprises more than 160 LGBT pride organizations with representation from more than 35 countries in 162 cities. Member prides include:

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Activities

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Marchers at Pride London, host of WorldPride 2012

InterPride's programs and activities are geared towards networking, education, and mentoring.

Conferences

During the last 29 years, pride organizations from almost every continent have participated in InterPride's annual world conference.

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 LGBT Pride community, the conference is now frequently held outside North America, with scholarships available for member organizations that cannot afford to attend through the Pamela O'Brien Memorial Scholarship Fund. O'Brien was a longtime member of Cape Cod Pride in Massachusetts, USA and served InterPride as a Regional Director and Vice President of Operations.

In addition, several of the regions into which InterPride is divided hold their own conferences independent of the worldwide conference.

Annual world conference

Year	Theme	Host city
1982	None	Boston, MA USA
1983	None	San Diego, CA USA
1984	Unity & More in ‘84	Wichita, KS USA
1985	Alive with Pride in ‘85	Fort Lauderdale, FL USA
1986	Forward Together	San Francisco, CA USA
1987	Proud, Strong, United	Baltimore, MD USA
1988	Rightfully Proud	St. Louis, MO USA
1989	Stonewall 20 – A Generation of Pride	Vancouver, BC Canada
1990	Look to the Future	Minneapolis, MN USA
1991	Together in Pride	Boston, MA USA
1992	Pride = Power	Long Beach, CA USA
1993	A Family of Pride	Houston, TX USA
1994	Stonewall 25 – A Global Celebration of Lesbian & Gay Pride & Protest	Fort Lauderdale, FL USA
1995	Pride – From Silence to Celebration	Phoenix, AZ USA
1996	Pride Without Borders	Kansas City, KS USA
1997	Equality Through Visibility	New York, NY USA
1998	Unity Through Diversity	West Hollywood, CA USA
1999	Prideful Past, Powerful Future	Glasgow, Scotland
2000	Take Pride, Take Joy, Take Action	Atlanta, GA USA
2001	Embrace Diversity	Auckland, New Zealand
2002	Pride Worldwide	San Francisco, CA USA
2003	Peace Through Pride	Montréal, PQ Canada
2004	Vive La Difference	Reykjavik, Iceland
2005	Equal Rights. No More. No Less.	Minneapolis, MN USA
2006	Pride – Not Prejudice	Portland, ME USA
2007	United For Equality	Zurich, Switzerland
2008	Live Love Be	Vancouver, BC Canada
2009	Your Rights, Our Rights, Human Rights	St. Petersburg, FL USA
2010	One Heart, One World, One Pride	Long Beach, CA USA
2011	Pride Around the World	Brussels, Belgium
2012	Pride Links Us Together	Boston, MA, USA
2013	Pride 365	Montreal, PQ, Canada
2014	Reflections of Pride – Stonewall 45	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2015	Color Our World with Pride	Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

WorldPride

Main article: WorldPride

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Marchers at Pride Toronto 2014 with signs commemorating significant events in LGBT history in Canada. In 2014, Toronto hosted WorldPride.

WorldPride is a title awarded by InterPride to local prides that seek the title to promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues on an international level through parades, festivals and other cultural activities. WorldPrides are held at least two years apart.

Date	Host city	Notes
July 2000	Rome, Italy	Coincided with the Great Jubilee
August 2006	Jerusalem, Israel	Took place after over a year of delays. The scheduled parade was denied a permit owing to the 2006 Lebanon War.
July 2012	London, England, United Kingdom
June 2014	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 2017	Madrid, Spain
June 2019	New York City, New York, United States	On October 19, 2015, NYC Pride announced that the city would host WorldPride to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots

See also

• WorldPride
• Europride
• List of LGBT events

External links

• Official InterPride Web Site