Global Black Pride announces leadership team – with first in-person event set for 2022
"A global platform to celebrate all Black LGBTQI+ diversity"
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Global Black Pride (GBP) has revealed its leadership team and teased its first in-person event, taking place in 2022.
In an announcement today, a rep outlined Black LGBTQ leadership and advisory representation from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America, and beyond.
The dates and location for the upcoming event are to be confirmed.
“Celebrating and centering our diversities”
Co-founder and President, Micheal Ighodaro commented: “Global Black Pride was founded to provide a space for all Black LGBTQI+ communities across the globe to feel seen and heard while celebrating and centering our diversities.
“Over the past months, our team has begun to build the structures and strategies that will help us shape and sustain the tasks set for ourselves. With that, we are committed to an inclusive and wide-reaching movement that brings all Black LGBQTI+ experiences and equity to the forefront unapologetically.”
Alongside Ighodaro, the GBP leadership team consists of Vice-President Rikki Nathanson, Chief of Finance Kenita Placide, Gerald Garth as Head of Events, Media, and Communications, and Monroe France as Chair of the Advisory Board. Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, British political activist and co-founder of UK Black Pride, will serve as the Director of the Human Rights Conference.
Opoku-Gyimah comments: “The ultimate goal of Global Black Pride is to center, uplift, and celebrate LGBTQI+ Black people and the cultures and issues that are important to us all. Across the world, LGBTQI+ Black people help drive movements for justice and equality, have an outsized impact on popular culture, and contribute to societies in which our lived experiences are not taken into meaningful consideration.”
Organisers described GBP’s mission as to serve as a global platform to celebrate all Black LGBTQI+ diversity and to build a global movement to fight for freedom, liberation, and justice for all Black LGBTQI+ communities across the globe. ‘
Founded in 2020, the first-ever GBP was a virtual event with over 7 million viewers worldwide. In 2021, the event saw over 10 million viewers.
For more information visit www.globalblackpride.org.
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