Hugh Torrance LEAP Sports Scotland The role of Pride House in equality and human rights programming at Mega and Major Sports Events Hugh Torrance LEAP Sports Scotland

have fun, celebrate our authentic selves, embrace diversity and be inclusive educate and evoke change on homophobia in the sports culture be a catalyst for Human Rights to protect gays and lesbians in countries of conflict where governments have laws that openly discriminate against homosexuals

Does this concept have commercial legs? Drop-in Exhibitions Conference Sports Programme Community Building

A meeting point for LGBTIQs and a safe space for queer fans that visit the Euros A tool to engage with the world?

Concept of an international movement What are our ethical responsibilities when licensing and managing events? Concept of an international movement Remote Pride House

Can we raise ethical issues, make protest, and also celebrate? PROMOTE INCLUDE COLLABORATE WELCOME Can we raise ethical issues, make protest, and also celebrate? Be led by local and international communities

This is Pride House Glasgow – the finished article This is Pride House opened, and you can see some of the important elements even from the outside, the benches allowing a bit of overspill of social space to take advantage of the weather, the banner for the café here, which many felt became the heart of Pride House as they were able to pop in with their paper and just relax to watch the Games with a coffee, and of course the baton of change in the window which was made by one of the many youth projects that was connected to Pride House, allowing young people to explore the human rights issues and to express themselves within the space.

Mention that as well as running Pride House as a café, and a drop-in space, we also had 90 events in Pride House and across Scotland throughout the period. Here is an example of a typical day in Pride House, the middle Sunday.

It was important to us that we kept a high allocation of the events as sporting related events as well as having a key focus on culture, community and tourism related events. Here is a variety of the different types of events that took place in Pride House.

Brazil 2016 France 2016 Glasgow 2016 Korea 2018 Japan 2020

Mission Pride House International supports local communities to advance LGBTI inclusion and combat homophobia and transphobia through and throughout large-scale sporting events. Vision LGBTI people are equitably welcomed and engaged in every large-scale sporting event. Values Local leadership – We believe that local communities are best equipped to envision and deliver programming in response to, or in connection with, large-scale sporting events in their region. Shared History – We believe that the expertise of past Pride House initiatives form an invaluable resource and must be documented and shared. Best Practices – We believe that we have a shared responsibility to ensure the continued growth and momentum of the Pride House movement through the development of best practices. Collaboration – We believe that our success depends on the effective engagement of allies from throughout the sport community and the diverse regions of the world. Inclusion – We recognize the full diversity of LGBTI communities and the intersectional nature of identity. We are committed to advancing the inclusion of all people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, as represented by the acronym “LGBTI”.

What are the different benefits re human rights, equality and diversity agendas which can be realised through the use of Pride Houses? What is the potential for the use of the Pride House model?