1. 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

2. 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

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

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

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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

11. Brazil 2016
France 2016
Glasgow 2016
Korea 2018
Japan 2020

12. 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”.

13. 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?