2008 Annual Report
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The International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Pride Coordinators 2008 Annual Report Prepared by Trisha Clymore and Russell Murphy Co-Presidents With contributions from the Board of Directors 2008 Annual Report Introduction It is out pleasure to present the member organizations of InterPride the first Annual Report. This has been an active year for InterPride and we will try and summarize the activities in this report. The Regional Directors have been tasked to report on the activities of their regions as have the Chairs of the Committees and Subcommittees. All reports received by the time of publication have been included. If reports are received after the date of publication, a revision will be released. InterPride maintains a database of LGBTI Pride Event producing organizations. Currently we have 414 organizations from around the world listed. Of that, 140 are members. 76% of our membership comes from North America. As many know, we entered into an agreement with EPOA (European Pride Organizers Association) during the 2007 Conference. This agreement allows for EPOA to pay dues at a flat rate so all their members are members of InterPride as well. We currently have approximately 20 European organizations in the database that are not indicated as members of InterPride this year. It is unknown at this time if all those organizations are still in existence and/or if they are members of EPOA. EPOA sent us a list of their members which we matched against our database. We had most of the organizations in our database already, and a few that were not on the EPOA list. We do not have complete contact information on all the organizations. Hopefully we can rectify this with EPOA in the coming months so that both our lists are complete and all EPOA members receive the InterPride benefits due them. There are plans to improve the statistics that the database collects. In the future, this report will have the number of events produced by our member organizations, along with attendance estimates. Our relationship with PRIDE MAGAZINE continued this year. The magazine was smaller and we continued to experience problems with distribution. Overall the membership seems pleased with the relationship. The agreement ended this year and we have begun discussion to extend the agreement. At the top of the list for improvements is the distribution problem and the editor is addressing this first. Thanks to Gilbert Baker, designer of the Rainbow Flag, InterPride was introduced to the makers of ABSOLUT vodka. They have created the ABSOLUT COLORS campaign and InterPride is the beneficiary of it. Representatives of ABSOLUT will be in attendance at the conference to meet all the delegates and present InterPride with sponsorship of SEK 100,000 (approximately US$15,000). These funds will be used for scholarship the next two to three years. ABSOLUT hopes to extend the ABSOLUT COLORS campaign into local markets. The representatives will be talking to the delegates about how to get their local ABSOLUT distributor on board as local sponsors. Site Street continued its sponsorship with the hosting of our website as well as offering discounts to InterPride members. Improvements were made in the ‘Join’ pages. This was to ease the event submission and membership/dues process. The 2 2008 Annual Report website is finally in three languages other than English. While this is a great improvement, maintaining the non-English pages has proven to be a problem. Best Buy has a generous giving program through its employees that volunteer time to not for profit organizations. Vice President of Operations David Hill and former Region 6 Director Paul Sanders are employed by Best Buy. Their volunteer hours resulted in US$ 20,000 direct funding for InterPride. They have designated 40% of these funds for general operating and the remaining for scholarship expenses. We continue our relationship with the International Festivals and Events and the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association. Both these networks offer discounted memberships and services to InterPride member organizations The board and committees started off very active following the 2007 Conference. The most active was Methods and Standards as the committee addressed issues brought up during the 2007 conference. The board had a very successful Mid-Year Meeting in Vancouver. We ended the meeting setting goals for ourselves up to the end of 2008. Unfortunately, the activity of the board and committees dropped after the Mid-Year Meeting. We have not met many of the goals we set for ourselves. One of the problems we as a board face is time management. We are all volunteers for InterPride; many of us are volunteers for our home organization and still have to work for a living. Our intentions are good, but we do not always have the time to follow through. Board of Directors In addition to the nine Executive Committee members, the board had a total of thirty Regional Directors representing sixteen regions. Ten of the regions are represented by only one of the two possible directors; two regions had a complete change in their directors at their regional conferences; four of the regions replaced one director at their conferences. Here is the 2008 Board, along with their member organization affiliation: Name/Position Affiliation Term Trisha Clymore Atlanta Pride Committee Full Year Co-President Atlanta GA USA Russell Murphy Heritage of Pride Full Year Co-President New York City, NY USA Mike Iacono Christopher Street West/LA Pride Full Year Secretary Los Angeles, CA USA Ross Chapman Pride Toronto Full Year Treasurer Toronto, ON Canada Terry Fleming Pride Community Center of North Central Florida Full Year Vice President Member Services Gainesville, FL USA Verein Gay Pride / Mark Chapman Christopher Street Day Zürich Full Year Vice President of Operations Zürich Switzerland 3 2008 Annual Report Name/Position Affiliation Term Doña Hatch Human Rights Alliance Full Year Vice President of Operations Santa Fe, NM USA David Hill Twin Cities Pride Full Year Vice President of Operations Minneapolis, MN USA Katrin Jonsdottir Reykjavik Gay Pride Full Year Vice President of Operations Reykjavik, Iceland Steve Ganzell LA Leather Coalition Began Feb 10, 2008 Region 1 Director Los Angeles, CA USA Frank Rubio Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Began Feb 10, 2008 Region 1 Director Long Beach CA USA Ended Feb 10, 2008 Carl Gommer Phoenix Pride last vote cast before end of Region 1 Director Phoenix, AZ USA term Ended Feb 10, 2008 Ron DeHarte San Diego LGBT Pride last vote cast before end of Region 1 Director San Diego, CA USA term Jer Megowan Pride Day Equality Project Full Year Region 2 Director Eugene, OR USA Debra Martin Unity Foundation Began April 1, 2008 Region 3 Director San Antonio, TX USA Tony Ross Albuquerque Pride Began April 15, 2008 Region 3 Director Albuquerque, NM USA Ruth Ann Ethridge Pride Houston Ended Mar 16, 2008 Region 3 Director Houston, TX USA Fred Huebener Motor City Pride Full Year Region 4 Director Detroit, MI USA Ann McCoy Pride St. Louis Began March 16, 2008 Region 4 Director St. Louis, MO USA Resigned Aug 15, 2008 John Lovin Pride St. Louis Ended March 16, 2008 Region 4 Director St. Louis, MO USA Jennifer Sheffield Atlanta Pride Committee Full Year Region 5 Director Atlanta GA USA Charles Richards Roanoke Pride Full Year Region 5 Director Roanoke, VA USA Billy Urich Connecticut Pride Hartford Rally and Festival Full Year Region 6 Director Hartford, CT USA Began March 2, 2008 Doreen DeJesus Brooklyn Pride Attended Mid-Year in Region 6 Alternate Director Brooklyn, NY USA Aulita's stead Keri Aulita Boston Pride Began March 2, 2008 Region 6 Director Boston MA USA Paul Sanders Pride Alliance of Long Island Ended March 2, 2008 Region 6 Director North Babylon, NY USA Marion Steele Pride Committee Ottawa-Gatineau Began March 30, 2008 Region 7 Director Ottawa, ON Canada John Boychuk Vancouver Pride Society Began March 30, 2008 Region 7 Director Vancouver, BC Canada Ramona Westgate Halifax Pride Ended March 30, 2008 Region 7 Director Halifax, NS Canada 4 2008 Annual Report Name/Position Affiliation Term Marie-Lin Lacerte Winnipeg Pride Ended March 30, 2008 Region 7 Director Winnipeg, MB Canada Fundacja Rownosci Thomasz Baczkowski (Equality Foundation) Full Year Region 8 Director Warsaw, Poland Paul Birrell Pride London Full Year Region 10 Director London, England UK Kristin Sævarsdottir Reykjavik Gay Pride Full Year Region 11 Director Reykjavik, Iceland Robert Kastl Christopher Street Day Berlin Full Year Region 12 Director Berlin, Germany Hans DeMeyer Belgian Lesbian and Gay Pride Full Year Region 13 Director Brussels, Belgium Dimitri Tsambrounis Athens Pride Full Year Region 15 Director Athens, Greece Toni Reis Associacao Paranaense da Parada da Diversidade Full Year Region 17 Director Curitiba, Parana Brazil Sahran Abeysundara Equal Ground Full Year Region 19 Director Colombo, Sri Lanka Brett Hayhoe, Region Pride March Victoria Full Year 20 Director Melbourne, VIC Australia Goals from 2007 Conference The delegates of the 2007 conference charged the Board with seven goals to be completed before the 2008 conference. Some had earlier deadlines. It is our duty at this time to report on the status of these goals: • The Member Services Committee was to have the website in three languages by the Mid-Year Meeting. This goal was accomplished by May 2008, a month after the Mid-Year Meeting. There are still some buttons that have to be translated and VP/Member Services promises that it is being worked on. Details should be in the Member Services Committee Report. • An E-bulletin was to be issued quarterly by the Communications Subcommittee. There was one issue released. The editor had problems receiving promised article for inclusion. Then, he found he did not have the time to produce the E- Bulletin.