Annual Members’ Conference & General Assembly: Dublin, Nov 2014

Minutes

DAY 1: Saturday 15th November

1/Plenary Session 1 Patrick Dempsey: I am Co-Chair of IGLYO’s Executive Board, Welcome to IGLYO’s General Assembly. The other Executive Board members introduced themselves and their roles: Eirik Rise, Treasurer Ani Giorgadze, Intersectionality Officer Orlaith Hendron, Co-chair Mina Tolu, Communications Officer George-Konstantinos Charonis, Education and Social Inclusion Officer Ashot Gevorgyan, Secretary

2/Adoption of Chair and Minute Taker Patrick Dempsey (IGLYO): The Board would like to propose that Nanna Moe Chair the General Assembly. Nanna has previously served on the IGLYO Board and is currently ILGA-’s Communications Officer. General approval

Patrick Dempsey (IGLYO): The Board proposes that Sarah Rowlinson be appointed as minute taker for the General Assembly. Sarah served on the IGLYO Board from 2012 – 2014. General approval

3/Adoption of Agenda Nanna Moe: the agenda had been slightly altered. Can the GA approve the agenda? General approval

4/Adoption of Tellers NM: The Board propose the appointment of Setta Mortensen, IGLYO FCC Member and Alex from BelongTo as tellers to the GA. Can I see approval for this? General approval

5/Roll Call NM: A roll call needs to take place to ensure quorum has been met for the General Assembly to proceed. Quorum is defined as half of the membership plus one. When your organisation is called please put your hand up and you will be given your voting card. Please sign your voting card and make sure you keep it with you.

NM held roll call and the following organisations were accepted as present and handed voting cards.

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# Member Organisation Country Status P NP PR 1 A.N.G.E.L France Not Present 1 2 Accept Asociatia Romania Romania Present 1 3 Accept Cyprus Cyprus Present 1 4 Act Q Not Present 1 5 Allsorts Youth Project England Present 1 6 Alter Vision (Tel Quels Jeunes) Belgium Not Present 1 7 ANSO Finland Present 1 8 Arcigay Italy Present 1 9 Arcigay Ora Roma Itlay Not Present 1 10 Arcopoli Spain Not Present 1 11 B.YoU Project England Not Present 1 12 BelongTo Ireland Present 1 13 BLUS Denmark Not Present 1 14 Centre for Social Emancipation (QESh) Kosovo Not Present 1 15 Charlie Czech Not Present 1 Republic 16 CHEFF Belgium Present 1 17 COC Netherlands Netherlands Present 1 18 COLEAGS Spain Not Present 1 19 Colour Youth Greece Present 1 20 DIH Not Present 1 21 Dundalk Outcomers Ireland Not Present 1 22 EMA LGBT Network Belgium Not Present 1 23 FELGBT Spain Present 1 24 Alliance Ukraine Ukraine Present 1 25 Gay Belarus Belarus Not Present 1 26 Gay Forum of Ukraine Ukraine Present 1 27 Gelios Not Present 1 28 Genderdoc-M Moldova Not Present 1 29 HERE NI Northern Not Present 1 Ireland 30 HIN Iceland Iceland Present 1 31 HOSI Wien Austria Present 1 32 Identoba Georgia Present 1 33 Imaan England Not Present 1 34 Insight public Not Present 1 35 Israeli Gay Youth Israel Not Present 1 36 Jugendnetzwerk lambda Berlin- Germany Present 1 Brandenburg 37 KAOS GL Not Present 1 38 KPH: Campaign Against Poland Not Present 1 39 LABRYS Not Present 1 40 Lambda Jugendnetzwerk Germany Proxy to Jugendnetzwerk 1 Lambda Berlin 41 Lamba Warsaw Germany Present 1 42 Legebitra Slovenia Present 1 43 Lesbischulen Gottegen Germany Not Present 1 44 LGBT Forum Progress Not Present 1 45 LGBT Georgia Georgia Present 1 46 LGBT Ungdom Denmark Proxy to Skiev Ungdom 1 47 LGBT United Tetovo Not Present 1 48 LGBT Youth Scotland Scotland Present 1 49 LGL: Lithuanian Gay League Lithuania Not Present 1 50 LiGA Ukraine Present 1 51 MAG – Jeunes Gais et Lesbiennes France Not Present 1 52 MGRM: Malta Gay Rights Movement Malta Proxy to We Are 1 53 Mozaika Latvia Not Present 1 54 NUS LGBT England Not Present 1 2 IGLYO is funded by the European Union, the Council of Europe European Youth Foundation and the Government of the Netherlands.

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55 Open Minds England Not Present 1 # Member Organisation Country Status P NP PR 56 Pink Embassy Pink Present 1 Embassy 57 Pink Life Not Present 1 58 Q Association of Students Iceland Present 1 59 Q Union (Homoglobini) Finland Proxy to ANSO 1 60 Rainbow Association – DUGA Present 1 61 Rede ex Aequo Portugal Present 1 62 RSFL Ungdom Sweden Present 1 63 SABBAH Denmark Not Present 1 64 Seta Present 1 65 SFQ Present 1 66 Sin Verguenza Spain Not Present 1 67 Skiev Ungdom Norway Present 1 68 SPOD Turkey Not Present 1 69 SPR Present 1 70 SPY Serbia Not Present 1 71 SQEN Not Present 1 72 Szimpozion Association Not Present 1 73 Tolerantiško Jaunimo Asociacija Lithuania Not Present 1 74 Trans-Fuzja Foundation Hungary Proxy to SPR 1 75 USI Equality Campaign Ireland Not Present 1 76 We Are Malta Present 1 77 We for Civil Equality Armenia Proxy to LIGA 1 78 Wel Jong Niet Hetero Belgium Not Present 1 79 WISG Georgia Present 1 80 Zagreb Pride Croatia Present 1 Totals 33 41 6 Total Membership 80 Quorum 41 Total Eligible Votes 39

6/New Membership Adoption NM: The Board has received nominations to join IGLYO over the last year and would like to ask for formal approval to accept these organisations from the GA. The Board have confirmed that the organisations meet the requirements of the statutes.

Lambda Jugendnetzwerk– General approval HeSeta ry – General approval SexYoUality – General approval Rainbow Mission – General approval LGBT Plodiv - General approval LGBT Youth North West – General approval Gender and Development Azerbaijan – General approval MOSAIC – General approval Irish Trans Student Alliance – General approval Arcigay Il Cassero – General approval

Matej Repic (MAGNUS): My organisation MAGNUS is missing. Why is this? Patrick Dempsey (IGLYO): The application was received, it has been missed. NM: Can the GA approve this application? General approval

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Voting cards were handed out to the 5 newly approved organisations in attendance: LGBT Youth North West, Arcigay II Cassero, HeSeta ry, MAGNUS and LGBT Plovdiv.

NM: The Board would like the GA to consider terminating the membership of organisations. Two thirds must agree. Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): We cannot do this. Quorum has not been met for members to be removed. We cannot approve new members without quorum. Gisela Janis (RFSL Ungdom): I would like to suggest that we see how many are in the room and proxy can be sent for those missing.

A count of organisations and proxies without new members was held. Total number counted: 39

NM: Quorum is 42 so this has not been met. We are 3 organisations short of quorum.

Ashot Gevorgyan (IGLYO): It says in the statutes, article number 8 member organisations that do not exist can be removed by the board automatically as they no longer exist.

Orlaith Hendron (IGLYO): HereNI give their proxy to BelongTo

Gisela Janis (RFSL Ungdom): KPH give proxy to RFSL Ungdom

NM: The Board moves to remove Toleranisto and Lebeshule Gottingen who no longer exist.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): Can you clarify how this decision was made that they do not exist?

PD: Searches, attempts to contact and information from other member organisations.

Both were excluded – quorum has now been approved.

NM: This means the total membership is 80. Quorum is now 41.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): We need clarification. They do not need to be legally recognised but statutes say that they are legally organised.

Patrick Dempsey (IGLYO): Some organisations accepted years ago did not have legal status.

Karoline Börner (Jugendnetzwerk Lamba Berlin-Brandenburg): This discussion should be moved to membership policy discussion

NM: This procedure has been recognised for many years in IGLYO. A motion can be proposed next year.

Phillipe( CHEFF): The statutes in English and in French are different. Statutes in English state the quorum is half plus one, but French say fifty percent.

NM: The English version is the one that is used by GA.

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NM: The GA has the final say in the interpretation of the statutes. These are not clear and so it is the job of the GA that motions are improved to give greater clarity. Member should take responsibility for bringing motions to the GA to bring clarity to the procedures.

I ask that the minutes state that the Board should look in to the translations from French to English in the statutes.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): After this GA the Board should create a working group.

NM: This should be brought to work plan adoption discussion so it can be added and motions created for next GA.

Assembly voted to approve 11 new members. Majority approved.

NM: Membership is now 90 so Quorum is now 47.

A roll call was held.

# Organisation Name Country Status P NP PR 1 A.N.G.E.L Proxy to We Are 1 2 ACCEPT Asociatia (Romania) Present 1 3 ACCEPT Cyprus Present 1 4 Act Q Not Preset 1 5 Allsorts Youth Project Present 1 6 Alter Vision (Tel Quels Jeunes) Not Present 1 7 ANSO Present 1 8 Arcigay Present 1 9 Arcigay Il Cassero Present 1 10 Arcigay Ora Roma Not Present 1 11 Arcópoli Not Present 1 12 B.You.Project Not Present 1 13 BeLonG To Youth Services Present 1 14 BLUS Not Present 1 15 Centre for Social Emancipation (QESh) Not Present 1 16 Charlie Not Present 1 17 CHEFF Present 1 18 COC Nederlands Present 1 19 COLEAGS Not present 1 20 Colour Youth - Κοινότητα LGBTQ Νέων Αθήνας Present 1 21 DIH Not Present 1 22 Dundalk Outcomers Not Present 1 23 EMA LGBT Network Not Present 1 FELGTB. Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Transexuales 24 y Bisexuales Present 1 25 Gay Alliance Ukraine Present 1 26 Gay Belarus: LGBT Human Rights Project Not Present 1 27 Gay Forum of Ukraine Present 1 28 Gelios Not Present 1 29 GENDERDOC-M: Centrul de Informații Not Present 1 30 Gender & Development Not Present 1 5 IGLYO is funded by the European Union, the Council of Europe European Youth Foundation and the Government of the Netherlands.

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31 Here NI Proxy to Belong To 1 # Organisation Name Country Status P NP PR 32 HeSeta ry Present 1 33 HIN - Hinsegin Norðurland Present 1 34 HOSI Wien Present 1 35 Identona Present 1 36 IMAAN Not Present 1 37 Insight Public Not Present 1 38 Israeli Gay Youth Not Present 1 39 ITSA- Irish Trans Student Alliance Present 1 40 Jugendnetzwerk Lambda Berlin Brandenburg Present 1 41 KAOS GL Not Present 1 Proxy to RSFL 42 KPH: campaign against homophobia Ungdom 1 43 Labrys Not Present 1 Proxy to Jugendnetzwerk Lambda Berlin – 44 Lambda Jugendnetzwerk Brand 1 45 Lambda Warsaw Not Present 1 46 Legebitra Present 1 47 Lesbischulen Gottegen Not Present 1 48 LGBT Forum Progress Not Present 1 49 LGBT Georgia Present 1 50 LGBT Plovdiv Present 1 Proxy to Skeiv 51 LGBT Ungdom Ungdom 1 52 LGBT United Tetovo Not Present 1 53 LGBT Youth North West Present 1 54 LGBT Youth Scotland Present 1 55 LGL: Lietuvos gėjų lyga Not Present 1 56 LiGA: Миколаївська асоціація геїв, лесбіянок та бісексуалів "ЛіГА" Present 1 57 MAG- Jeunes Gais et Lesbiennes Proxy to Q Iceland 1 58 Magnus Present 1 59 MGRM: Malta Gay Rights Movement Proxy to We Are 1 60 Mosaic Not Present 1 Mozaīka: Lesbiešu, geju, biseksuāļu, transpersonu un viņu 61 draugu apvienība Not Present 1 62 NUS LGBT Not Present 1 63 Open Minds Not Present 1 64 PINK Embassy / LGBT Pro Albania Present 1 65 Pink Life Not Present 1 66 Q - Queer student association of Iceland Present 1 67 Q Union (Homogoblini) Proxy to ANSO 1 68 Rainbow Association DUGA Present 1 69 Rainbow Mission Not Present 1 70 Rede ex Aequo Present 1 71 RFSL Ungdom Present 1 72 Sabaah Not Present 1 73 Seta Present 1 74 SexYOUality Not Present 1 75 SFQ Sveriges förenade HBTQ-studenter Present 1 76 Sin Verguenza Not Present 1 77 Skeiv Ungdom / Queer Youth Norway Present 1 6 IGLYO is funded by the European Union, the Council of Europe European Youth Foundation and the Government of the Netherlands.

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78 SpoD Not Present 1 # Organisation Name Country Status P NP PR 79 SPR Not Present 1 80 SPY Not Present 1 81 SQEN Not Present 1 82 Szimpozium Association Not Present 1 83 Tolerantiško Jaunimo Asociacija Not Present 1 84 Trans-Fuzja Fundacja Proxy given to SPR 1 85 USI Equalty Camapaign Ireland Not Present 1 86 We Are Youth and Student LGBTQQI Organisation Present 1 87 We for Civil Equality Present 1 88 Wel Jong Niet Hetero Not Present 1 89 Women's Initiatives Supporting Group Present 1 90 Zagreb Pride Association Present 1 Totals 38 43 9 Total Membership 90 Quorum 46 Total Eligible Votes 47

NM: Cab we have general agreement that quorum has now been met? General agreement

NM: For non-statutory votes a simple majority will be sought which is 50% plus 1 of the quorum in the room.

NM: I would like to ask that the minutes state that the Board must make sure there are enough delegates at GA to ensure quorum and if unsure about quorum then proxies are given in advance and to ensure that more members engage with GA.

NM: Is the Board happy to withdraw the proposal to terminate organisations.

The Board agreed they would like to withdraw proposal regarding the termination of member organisations.

7/Workshops on Intersectionality Position Paper and Membership Policy

NM: All members have received the position paper on intersectionality and membership policy in the mailings. A 45 minute workshop session will be held to discuss the documents. All participants will have the opportunity to attend both and minute takers in the session will present what has been agreed by consensus in each session. The GA will then take a simple majority vote on both of these.

NM: Part of membership policy relates to changes in statutes. Any decisions cannot change the statutes at this stage, but can give direction to the development of motions for next year’s GA. The position paper does not need to be voted on by the GA but the Board have asked for approval to ensure that the paper is going in the right direction.

Plenary closed and General Assembly delegates moved into workshops.

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8/General Assembly/Internal Regulations Nanna introduced the session and reminded the floor that quorum is 47, so majority is 50% plus one meaning that the 25 votes in favour of amendment are needed in order to pass suggestion.

9/Membership Policy Ashot presented the amendments from the workshop, each of which was discussed as follows;

1. Line 56, to add ‘and educational’ to sentence. General approval 2. Line 61, to add ‘national’. General approval 3. Line 65, to add – ‘*dependent on the budget and discretion of the Board’. A vote was taken Majority voted in favour. Amendment approved.

4. Line 54, to change heading to ‘membership rights and benefits’. General approval 5. Line 83, to add ‘the minimum’. Emma Portelli Bonnici (We Are): You need to add 1 euro to scales so it is 2, 0001 --- and 10, 001 and so on. General approval was given.

Artan Karoli (Pink Embassy): This is too high, some cannot pay.

Emma Portelli Bonnici (We Are): then you can apply for a fee waiver. 0 - £2000 if you do not have 15 euros then apply for waiver.

A vote was held on first line of scale being 0 – 2000 euros. General approval 6. SCALE – Split category so first bracket is 10, 000 – 50, 0000 and then next one becomes 50, 000 – 100, 000 Matej Repic (MAGNUS): There is a big difference in price brackets then. General approval.

7. Line 83 – to add ‘minimum’ Aaro Jaakko Johannes Horsma (HeSeta ry): We do not need to say minimum and then also have a fee waiver.

NM: This is so that people can pay more if they choose to.

Kimon Panagiotopoulos (Colour Youth): This is donations and not membership fee if we have a ‘minimum’.

Phillipe (CHEFF): Perhaps add an asterix to explain term minimum

Emma Portelli Bonnici (We Are): It is okay to give more, it’s not a problem

Luna Jarecka (ITSA): This complicates things – organisation are always looking for money

Matej Repic (MAGNUS): This is too much and organisations should not have to pay so much

Orlaith Hendron (IGLYO): We explained we will only discuss things from workshop.

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Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): We are the General Assembly and we can choose what we talk about and for how long.

NM: We cannott open discussion on everything. It is a time issue. I am not trying to silence you.

NM: Is there approval for having ‘minimum included. Majority approved.

8. Fees scale - to add an extra layer to the end of the scale for a membership fee of 300 EUROS Chrysovalantis Charalambous (Accept LGBT Cyprus): that this is too high a membership fee.

Gisela Janis (RSFL Ungdom): Very few organisations are in this situation and that this was suggested by one of these privileged organisations who want to pay more. Vote taken. Majority approved.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): There was an amendment from the workshop that had not been included in the presentation. This was that income is only counted as unrestricted funds

Jouke van Buuren (COC Netherlands): This not included because fee waiver overrides this

9. Line????? Phillipe, (CHEFF): Remove ‘if member refuses to pay’. General approval.

10. Line 106, to change ‘IGLYO’ to ‘General Assembly’ to clarify who can terminate membership. General approval

11. Line 96 – change text Moritz Yvon (HOSI Wien): Change from primary contact to legal representative.

Ashot Gevorgyan (IGLYO): This is sometimes but not always be the case.

Kimon Panagiotopoulos (Colour Youth): They should usually be the person who is legally responsible unless there is no such person. This should be the norm and ‘generally’ is not good enough.

Matej Repic (Magnus): My organisation is democratic and we do not have a representative so this would not work for us.

Karoline Börner, (Jugendnetzwek Lambda Brandenburg-Berlin): Having one person as contact person only limits the opportunities for IGLYO.

Phillipe (CHEFF): I don’t understand why IGLYO designates a contact person

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): It has to be legal representation, otherwise if there is an issue in courts and it is not legal representative who signed then it has no weight in court.

Emma Portelli Bonnici (We Are): Can we vote on who designates member organisation?

Text changed line 96 onwards to add …….

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Kimon Panagiotopoulos (Colour Youth): You need to make sure the language is consistent.

NM: The Board will make sure technical changes are made.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): add ‘applicant’ or ‘member organisation’

Karoline Borner, (Jugendnetzwek Lambda Brandenburg-Berlin): Does this apply to friends?

Ashot Gevorgyan (IGLYO): No, friends do not need to sign anything.

12. Line 100. Phillipe (CHEFF): ln the last sentence it dictates that legal person and contact person are the same. This should not always be the case.

Emma Portelli Bonnici (We Are): Change to ‘contact person is responsible for getting legal representative to sign.’

Changes suggested to text and vote held on new section – 96 – 101. Majority approved.

Kimon Panagiotopoulos (Colour Youth): I suggest to add that organisations when they submit their fees are asked to submit financial document with so that IGLYO knows which fee they should pay. Majority approved

10/Position Paper Amendments and Adoptions Mina Tolu introduced the notes and proposed amendments from the workshops.

1. Amend grammar in document NM: I suggest that all grammar to be fixed by the Board, and not discuss everyone. General approval.

2. Line 171 - Change ‘support systems’ to ‘environment’. General approval 3. Line 212 – suggested by Trans-Fujza to remove star at end of trans. NM: I suggest that the decision on this is made after vote is taken on trans star in name of organisation tomorrow. General approval. 4. Line 212. Alex (BelongTo): Genderqueer should be removed as otherwise you need to include all non cis-gender identities.

Daniela Prisacariu (ACCEPT Romania):The use of words women, men and trans is not right.

Majk Michaelsdotter (RFSL Ungdom): Gender expectations can impact on all people. I will send exact wording to Mina for this section.

Luna Jarecka (ITSA): There should be an explanation that gender is a spectrum General approval

5. Line 347 – to add ‘biphobic’. General approval 6. Line 439/440 – add ‘assumed or perceived’ membership. General approval 7. Line 32 and 34 – change ‘black ’ to ‘lesbian of colour’. General approval 8. Line 141 – add ‘economic’ and ‘geo-political’. General approval

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): What does geo-politics have to do with things?

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Elene Chumburidze (LGBT Georgia): We combined ideas about politics and geography.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): It is a term in its own right and so does not make sense in this context We should add political separately.

Elene Chumburidze (LGBT Georgia): I agree

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): We should add ‘or others’ so not to limit, exclude or create exhaustive list

Gisela Janis (RSFL Ungdom):I don’t understand what is a political category?

Emma Portelli Bonnici (We Are): Why do we need to list them all?

Mina Tolu (IGLYO): Can we change to ‘social, cultural and other categories’? General approval

9. Line 166 – Add ‘sexuality’. General approval 10. Line 177 – add ‘and/or’. General approval 11. Line 237 and where discussed elsewhere – replace ‘impairments’ with ‘disabilities.’ General approval 12. Disabled person used throughout document – change to person with disabilities. General approval 13. Line 252 – add ‘gender expression’. General approval 14. Line 270 – change ‘bars and clubs’ to recreational venues. General approval 15. Line 256 – remove ‘women and girls’ and replace with ‘people’. General approval 16. Line 259 – Remove whole sentence as is unnecessary. General approval 17. Line 260 - add ‘and/or asexual’. General approval

Elena Pereda Lagartos (FELGBT): I agree with the point about people of colour but black activists do use this term.

Joshua McCormick (LGBT Youth Scotland): this has already been passed and so no point discussing again. General approval given to paper.

11/Presentation of Activity Report 2014 Mina Tolu (IGLYO) and Patrick Dempsey (IGLYO) presented activity report and outlined key activities.

MT: We would like to thank all our partners, supporters and funders and members.

Nitin Sood (Seta): It says you have had 21 friends and membership applications, what are these?

MT: 10 were applications to become friends, some from . The full list will be published on the website.

Kimon Panagiotopoulos (Colour Youth): How many filled in the form to update membership?

MT: two thirds.

Aaro Jaakko Johannes Horsma (HaSeta ry): Has the non-formal education toolkit been finished?

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PD: It has been drafted but will be launched before the end of this year.

NM: We will move to vote on the adoption of the activity report. Majority approved the report.

12/Finance Report 2013 Erik Rise (IGLYO) introduced the finance report and outlined income and expenditure for 2013

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): What are public bodies?

ER: It changes from year to year as the host cities change for events.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): What is other income?

ER: It’s made up of participant fees reimbursement, donations, unexpected items and interest.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): These should all be listed for transparency.

ER: There are so many we cannot go in to detail here and I want to give an overview. All items are listed in the full report so if you want to know all the items you can ask me.

Phillipe(CHEFF): – Is there any issues with cash flow?

ER: Yes, often final funds is given to us after project/event report is submitted so there is a gap. It is a challenge. Previously ILGA-World gave us an interest free loan, but now that they have moved we have to look at bank loans.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): In my country we ask other organisations and friends to loan us money. Can you not do this?

ER: We do, but this can be limited and depend on what other organisations can do this.

Matej Repic (MAGNUS): In 2012 the ‘other costs’ were higher, why is there a difference?

ER: I am unsure, this was dealt with at the last GA.

Goran Marjanovic (Rainbow Association DUGA): Staff and office costs are very high. What is this money spent on?

ER: Employer costs are very high in Belgium so this is in part why it is so high. We have to pay them

Phillipe, (CHEFF): I just checked the minutes from last year. It says that other costs were higher because ‘other categories’ had been included in this budget line.

NM: You would now vote on approving the Finance Report. Majority approved.

13/ Financial Control Committee Report 2013 Setta Mortensen and Karoline Börner introduced themselves and explained role of FCC.

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Setta Mortensen(IGLYO): The FCC went to Brussels and did a spot check of expenses and that these all added up. We reviewed the finance policy and fundraising strategy and suggested changes to the membership fees. We have suggested to the Board that they consider setting up a working group on fundraising. The FCC gave a positive recommendation to the General Assembly. We believed the finances have been conducted in an orderly and transparent manner. If there are any concerns regarding finances the FCC can be contacted at the FCC email address.

Majority voted to approve the report. 14/Communications Report 2014 Mina Tolu (IGLYO) presented the communications report to the assembly and informed delegates that this is not required by statutes but that the Board wanted to share the information.

Phillipe (CHEFF): We are based in Brussels so we can help with intern recruitment in the future.

Pawel Szmit (SPR): Do you have concrete plans to develop the website?

MT: Yes, I am drafting a plan based on wordpress and how we can do this at the moment.

15/Work Plan 2015 Presentation Orlaith Hendron (IGLYO) presented the work plan for 2015 and outlined plans under each priority.

Kimon Panagiotopoulos (Colour Youth): The Board should make sure that some recommendations are developed for the intersectionality paper and bring them to GA next year.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): The Board needs to work on rules and procedures for the GA and development of working group. The Board will call for working group and motions from this group to be presented to next GA.

Nitin Sood (Seta): The alumni development scheme should be added. The Board should support/coordinate mapping of alumni as recommendation from 30th anniversary conference.

NM: You will now vote to approve the work plan. Majority voted to approve.

16/Budget 2015 Presentation Erik Rise (IGLYO) presented budgeted income and expenditure for next for 2014.

Pawel Szmit (SPR): What is fundraising strategy that has been mentioned?

ER: It was developed at the last GA and refined by the FCC. We want to maintain relationships and more than one year agreements with key funders but also of course to look at new funders and grants. It is an issue of enough resource to access and manage new funding.

NM: I would like to ask you to vote to approve the budget. Majority voted to approve

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Sunday 16th November 2014

17/Roll Call

NM: Welcomed to the second day of the General Assembly. We will begin with a roll call.

Alter Vision – Not present A.N.G.E.L – Proxy to We Are ACCEPT Romania Accept Cyprus Act Q – not present Allsorts ANSO Arcigay Arcigay Ora Roma – proxy to Arcigay Arcigay II Cassero Arcopoli – proxy given to FELGBT B.yoU Project – not present BelongTo – proxy to ACCEPT Romania BLUS – not present Centre for social emancipation – not present Charlie – not present CHEFF COC Netherlands COLEGAS – not present Colour Youth DIH – not present Dundalk Outcomers – not present EMA LGBT Network - not present FELGBT Gay Belarus – not present Gay Forum of Ukraine Gay Alliance Ukraiune Gelios – not present Genderdoc-M – not present Here NI – not present HeSeta ry – proxy to Seta HIN Iceland Q union – proxy given to ANSO HOSI WIEN IDENTOBA Imaan – not present Insight Public – not present ITSA Israeli Gay Youth – not present Jugendnetzwerk Lambda Berlin – Brandenburg KAOS GL – not present KPH – proxy given to RSFL Ungdom LABRYS – not present Lamba Jugendnetzwerk – proxy given to Jugendnetzwerk Lambda Berlin – Brandenburg 14 IGLYO is funded by the European Union, the Council of Europe European Youth Foundation and the Government of the Netherlands.

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Lambda Warsaw – not present Legebitra LGBT Forum Progress – not present LGBT Georgia LGBT Plodiv – not present LGBT Ungdom – proxy given to Skiev Ungdom LGBT United - not present LGBT Youth Scotland LGBT Youth North West Lithuanian Gay League – not present MAG – Jeunes Gai et Lesbiennes - proxy given to Q Iceland MAGNUS - proxy given to CHEFF Malta Gay Rights Movement – Proxy given to We Are MOZAIKA – not present NUS LGBT LiGA Open Minds – not present Organisation Q – not present Pink Embassy Pink Life – Not present Q Association of Queer Students RAINBOW ASSOCIATION – DUGA Rainbow mission – not present Rede ex Aequo RSFL Ungdom SABBAH – Not present Seta SFQ Sin Verguenza– not present Skiev Ungdom SPOD – Not present SPR SPY – not present SQEN – not present Szimpozion – not present Queer Youth Network – not present Tolerant Youth Association Trans-Fuzja Foundation - proxy given to SPR USI Equality Campaign – not present We Are We for Civil Equality – proxy given to LiGA Wel Jong Niet Hetero – not present WISG Zagreb Pride

Quorum was checked. 50 votes and proxies in the room were counted out of 90 member orgsanisations in IGLYO.

NM: Quorum has been met.

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18/Motions Presentation Patrick Dempsey (IGLYO): The Executive Board proposes changing the name of the organisation to International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* and Queer Youth and Student organisation to make it more inclusive.

NM: According to the statutes two-thirds of the GA must approve this or the motion will not pass.

Fran Cowling (NUS LGBT): Why is intersex not in the name?

PD: We will do work next year on intersex and do not want to change name until we have done work to prepare to make sure we actually work on this and it is not just in name only. Then we can propose the motion at the next GA to change the name to include intersex.

?????, ICELAND – Is trans* more inclusive and is not inclusive enough?

PD: TGEU use trans* and we feel it is more inclusive. Many organisations use it.

Luna Jarecka (ITSA): Adding the asterix means that any word after trans is inclusive.

Ugla Stefanía Jónsdóttir (Q-Association of Queer Students): Transgender does include everything.

Emma Portelli Bonnici (We Are): If transgender covers everything and trans asterix the same thing do we need to change it?

Ugla Stefanía Jónsdóttir (Q-Association of Queer Students): sometimes there is a change in text but generally mean the same thing in theory.

Majk Michaelsdotter (RFSL Ungdom): We only use trans, without asterix as some trans activists have said it can belittle identities and can complicate how people use the term.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): TGEU using it is valid, but the concerns from membership is more relevant. Are there consequences for work with TGEU? I formally propose that star is removed.

PD: No this will not have an impact as we already do a lot of transgender work.

NM: We will have two votes – the original proposed motion with trans asterix first and then new proposal after this.

Kimon Panagiotopoulos (Colour Youth): Maybe it is better to have informal vote first and then we can see.

Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): - You have the official proposal of the board on the floor. This is what we vote on.

Emma Portelli Bonnici (We Are): If we disagree with the amendment then we can vote against it.

Vote was held to propose change to trans instead of trans* Simple majority opted to change motion to trans without asterix

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Vote held on amended motion.

Total votes counted in favour:32 Motion did not pass.

NM: I would like to remind you that Assembly motions to the General Assembly can be submitted in advance of the next GA if you are unhappy with the decision or want to make changes.

19/Board Member Elections

Candidates presented themselves.

Ugla Stefanía Jónsdóttir (Q-Association of Queer Students, Iceland): I started my activism in 2008/9 when I first came out as trans. I became aware that someone needed to speak out. I’ve been doing activism in my own country as education officer of LGBT organisation in Iceland – I have done this for the last two and half years. I am now involved in international activism in IGLYO since 2012. I was involved in the Prep Team for Intersectionality conference this year. I study gender studies and masters in intersectionality specifically. I can really give and contribute this and speak for people who are pushed out – queer, trans and why are we not reaching more. Wwe need to see what more we can do to reach out – we have resources and tools to give.

Joshua McCormick (LGBT Youth Scotland, Scotland): From where I’ve been I could talk about this. How we get more people involved and how we develop the GA. I would develop working groups on fundraising and look at the ways of diversifying and ensuring that the org is sustainable. The statutes these need work there are problems, there needs to be motions. I can bring professionalism and help give the membership more powers.

Daniela Prisacariu (ACCEPT Association, Romania): The reason that I am running form the Board – after 4 years it is the time for me to feedback. It has made a huge change in me – I was a very nervous person and I have changed a lot by meeting people and using the resources IGLYO has. Tools to help me work on intersectionality and norm criticism and bullying I can use in my own country. I would like to work most on capacity building of organisations – we all have different contexts and needs. IGLYO can and should work on strengthening member organisations. We all need more support from IGLYO and others. I have heard great ideas from alumni – how can we use their experience and use this to grow.

Nitin Sood (Seta, Finland): I want to focus on the vision I have. Three main things – intersectionality – I know it is a theme for this and next year but it should be core to our work and not just a focus for a few years. We need to diversify – in Bologna there were diverse people but where are these people now. Mental health is a main concern for LGBTQ Youth – there has been an IGLYO On in 2007 but there is plenty of research and so we can do more to improve the situation. Alumni is resource that is not being used right now we need to map these and try to engage.

Mina Tolu (We Are, Malta): I am currently on the board as communications officer and was co-opted in June. I am already on the Board and have had learning experience – I don’t want to lose this and I can help with continuity of the organisation. In Malta my organisation has been greatly helped by IGLYO.I study communications and I am currently doing campaigns for NGO back home – it is something I will always do. 17 IGLYO is funded by the European Union, the Council of Europe European Youth Foundation and the Government of the Netherlands.

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I am interested in external communications- newsletter, website and internal we need to build communications with member organisations as it is a membership organisation.

Andrii Zarytskyi (LiGA, Ukraine): Thank you for the questions yesterday and I want to remind you of the facts. I am 25, male from LIGA. I am leading the lobbying and advocacy work.I was involved in IGLYO’s Human Rights working group. It was a great experience.My work is now extending. I work as a consultant on TB in cruising zones. I know these issues from working with community Ukraine. I can bring intersectionality. As someone who has HIV you can understand the various struggles.

NM: In voting you should consider experience, motivation, gender balance, geographical balance to help in decision making.

The Board Members continuing next year presented themselves.

20/Presentation of GA Host Organisation for 2015 Daniela Prisacariu (ACCEPT Association): ACCEPT Association is still the only structured LGBT organisation in Romania. I want to bring the event – it is needed that we need to focus on Eastern Europe. It would mean a lot to the community and would help raise awareness. It would help participants know more about the experience in Romania. We did an event with IGLYO in 2008. It went well and there were no security issues. General approval

21/Board Election Ashot Gervorgyan (IGLYO): I will explain the procedures for election. You can vote for a maximum of 4 candidates – up to 4 people. If you select more than 4 your ballot will be spoiled.

Leó Sigurðsson (HIN): What happens if a mistake is made? Ashot Gervorgyan (IGLYO): Then a new paper will be issued. Ivan Novosel (Zagreb Pride): What happens if there is a tie?

Ashot Gervorgyan (IGLYO): There will be a vote between those with the same votes. Karoline Börner (Jugendnetzwerk Lambda Berlin – Brandenburg): Can we do a count of ballots to check who is in the room?

A count took place. The tellers confirmed that there were 50 votes present.

22/Election Results

Setta Mortensen (IGLYO): 50 ballots were cast in total. 49 were valid and there was 1 abstention. So quorum was met. Each teller counted the votes separately before comparing the results together to check.

Alex (teller): There is nothing in the statutes about how the results are reported, if it should be the names of people with the most votes or who got how many votes each. The tellers have decided to share the 4 names of those who received the most votes and people can ask us if they want to know how many votes each person got.

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Irakli Vacharadze (Identoba): Traditionally the votes are given, and so we should share them. It is important for the sake of representation to see the results.

NM: This is a call that the tellers have made for this year, if you want to change the process for next year you can propose a motion for the next GA.

Fran Cowling (NUS LGBT): This event is so inaccessible. I have a problem hearing with people talking over each other. It makes it inaccessible. It’s rude and people need to show respect. - value the work that people have done to prepare for elections. We need to see results and not argue over the semantics.

Setta Mortensen (IGLYO) presented the top four candidates: Ugla Stefanía Jónsdóttir, Joshua McCormick, Daniela Prisacariu and Nitin Sood.

NM: The IGLYO Aibsl GA is now closed.

NM: IGLYO has another legal identity as IGLYO Netherlands. You will now need to vote to transfer decisions from IGLYO Aisbl to IGLYO Netherlands.

NM: We will now hold a roll call for IGLYO Netherlands:

Alter Vision – not present Angel – proxy given to We Are Accept Romania Accept Cyprus Act Q – not present Allsorts ANSO Arcigay Arcigay Ora Roma – proxy to Arcigay Arcigay II Cassero Arcopoli – proxy given to FELGBT B.yoU Project – not present BelongTo – proxy to ACCEPT Romania BLUS – not present Centre for social emancipation – not present Charlie – Not present CHEFF COC Netherlands COLEGAS – not present Colour Youth DIH – not present Dundalk Outcomers – not present EMA LGBT Network - not present FELGBT Gay Belarus – not present Gay Forum of Ukraine Gay Alliance Ukraiune Gelios – not present Genderdoc-M – not present 19 IGLYO is funded by the European Union, the Council of Europe European Youth Foundation and the Government of the Netherlands.

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Here NI – absent HeSeta ry – proxy given to Seta HIN Iceland Q union – proxy given to ANSO HOSI WIEN Identoba Imaan – Not present Insight Public – not present ITSA Israeli Gay Youth – not present Jugendnetzwerk Lambda Berlin-Brandenburg KAOS GL – not present KPH – proxy given to RSFL Ungdom Labrys – not present Lambda Jugendnetzwek– prozy given to Jugendnetzwerk Lambda Berlin-Brandenburg Lambda Warsaw – not present Legebitra LGBT Forum Progress – not present LGBT Georgia LGBT Plodiv– Not present LGBT Ungdom – proxy given to Skiev Ungdom LGBT United - not present LGBT Youth Scotland LGBT Youth North West Lithuanian Gay League – not present MAG – Jeunes Gais et Lesbiennes- proxy given to Q Iceland MAGNUS –proxy given to CHEFF Malta Gay Rights Movement – proxy to We Are Mozaika – not present NUS LGBT LIGA Open Minds – not present Organisation Q – not present Pink Embassy Pink Life – not present Q Association of Queer Students RAINBOW ASSOCIATION – DUGA Rainbow mission – not present Rede ex Aequo – not present RSFL Ungdom SABBAH – not present Seta SFQ Sin Verguenza– not present Skiev Ungdom SPOD – Not present SPR SPY – not present SQEN – not present Szimpozion – not present 20 IGLYO is funded by the European Union, the Council of Europe European Youth Foundation and the Government of the Netherlands.

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Queer Youth Network – not present Tolerant Youth Association Trans-Fuzja Foundation - proxy given to SPR USI Equality Campaign – not present We Are We For Civil Equality – proxy given to LIGA Wel Jong Niet Hetero – not present WISG Zagreb Pride MAGNUS– proxy given to CHEFF

NM: Can I see general approval for the motions from the IGLYO Aisbl GA to be adopted for the GA of IGLYO Netherlands. General approval.

NM: Thank you. I declare the IGLYO Netherlands GA closed.

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