2022 ILGA World Conference: call for thematic pre-conference proposals
Summary
For the 2022 ILGA World Conference, the ILGA World Board is inviting organisations to propose and organise a few thematic pre-conferences.
A thematic pre-conference explores a topic relevant to our communities in greater depth. It needs to have a global dimension, and is ideally organised by a group of cross-regional and cross-LGBTIQ organisations or persons.If you wish to organise a thematic pre-conference at the 2022 World Conference in LA Long Beach, submit your proposal by end of day on 15th October 2021. Please note that organising a selected pre-conference does not grant free access to the conference.
Context
Since the 1970s, ILGA World Conferences have brought together LGBTIQ leaders and activists from all over the world. They have been fundamental events for our movement ever since, and are moments to shape the life of our organisation. ILGA World is queerpreviously used as a derogatory term to refer to LGBT individuals in the English language – and still perceived as offensive by some - queer has been reclaimed by people who identify beyond traditional gender categories and heteronormative social norms. Although not universally accepted, it is often used as a catch-all to include many people within the larger community of people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics. democracy in action, and it all starts at ILGA World Conferences. The 30th ILGA World Conference, hosted by the It Gets Better Project, will be held in LA Long Beach, California, United States from to 2 to 6 May 2022.
The World Conference Programme consists of keynote speeches, plenaries, workshops, roundtables and mini-panels that seek to address issues relevant to our communities worldwide. Thematic, regional, and identity/community-based pre-conferences and caucuses complement the programme.
If you wish to organise a thematic pre-conference at the 2022 World Conference in LA Long Beach, submit your proposal by end of day on 15th October 2021. Please note that organising a selected pre-conference does not grant free access to the conference.
In order to apply for a pre-conference slot, please fill the below application form and send it to [email protected].
Your proposal will be reviewed by the ILGA World Office and Board, and successful bidders will be notified by end of October 2021. Organisers of a successful bid for a pre-conference may be asked to work with ILGA World on finalising the programme.
ILGA World pre-conference application form
Please follow this link to download the application form.
Fill it in, and send it to [email protected] by 15 October 2021 end of day.
A thematic pre-conference explores a topic relevant to our communities in greater depth. All thematic pre-conferences need to have a global dimension and are ideally organised by a group of cross-regional and cross-LGBTIQ organisations or persons. In the past these have covered a wide range of issues, ranging from sexrefers to the classification of a person as male, female, or other - usually made at birth, written on a birth certificate, and usually based on the appearance of their external anatomy. A person’s sex, however, is actually a combination of bodily characteristics, including chromosomes, hormones, internal and external reproductive organs, and secondary sex characteristics. work to indigenous issues, from migration and refugees to workplace rights.
For the 2022 World Conference, the ILGA World Board is inviting organisations to propose and organise a few thematic pre-conferences that it can review and add to the programme.
Separately, the ILGA World Board Bisexualadjective used to describe a person who has the capacity to form enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional attractions to those of the same gender or to those of other genders., Intersexan umbrella term for the spectrum of variations of sex characteristics that naturally occur within the human species. Intersex people are born with variations of sex characteristics (such as genitals, reproductive organs, hormonal and chromosomal patterns) that are more diverse than stereotypical definitions of male or female bodies. Up to 1.7% of the global population are born with such traits; yet, because their bodies are seen as different, intersex children and adults are often stigmatised and subject to harmful practices – including in medical settings - and discriminated against., Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth., Women and Youth Committees organise thematic pre-conferences for the five population groups they serve, and the ILGA World office will organise a pre-conference on UN Advocacy, so pre-conference proposals should not be made on these six topics as these will be handled separately.
- All pre-conferences will take place on either Monday, May 2 or Tuesday, May 3, 2022
- The time allocation for a pre-conference is either 3 or 4.5 hours. In exceptional cases 6 hours may be granted.
- Being awarded a pre-conference means that you will have a conference room given to you to run your pre-conference inside the conference venue (the Westin Long Beach). The conference rooms available range in capacity from 40 to 200 persons (theatre style).
- We will have space to accommodate between 4 and 6 pre-conferences selected from this call
- We will give preference to pre-conferences that
- are organised by a group of organisations/persons from different world regions and different population groups
- take an intersectional approach to the topic they explore
- have interactive elements in their programme
- are highly relevant to LGBTIacronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people. Although this is not the acronym available to describe people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics, it is the most commonly used in United Nations spaces and advocacy. communities globally
- have meaningful youth participation as part of their conception and delivery
- ILGA World does not have a budget to cover travel costs for pre-conference speakers, moderators and organisers or other additional participants
- Pre-conferences take place during the ILGA World conference and use the ILGA World conference venue facilities, and so will be open only to people who are registered to attend the ILGA World conference. This includes the organisers and presenters at the pre-conference, who should all be registered to attend the ILGA World conference either as a scholar or a paying-participant.
- Pre-conferences should be open to all conference participants unless there is a well-founded reason to restrict participation (e. g. pre-conferences that serve particular population groups might only be open to the populations they address or serve)