“LGBTIQ Youth: Future Present Change”, is the ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) 2022 World Conference (May 2-6). The largest global gathering of LGBTIQ changemakers, the conference is offering, for a $30 fee:

• access to online platform with daily schedule of events and opportunity to personalise the participant’s profile
• links to sessions that are streamed and/or interactive
• access to recordings post-session
• online chat space

Learn more and register here.

The theme of the 2022 conference is: “LGBTIQ Youth: Future Present Change”

Change: our world has never needed it more than now. Covid-19 is only one of the emergencies that our planet is facing: climate change, sexism, racism, social injustice, economic disparities are only a few of the deadly presences we are battling against. Crises build upon the damages made by other crises. Those who are already marginalised end up struggling to survive even more. 

LGBTIQ communities have always stepped-up in times of hardship, and we are again called to bring radical, positive change. Youth have been a crucial presence in social justice movements: the way they mobilise others, speak truth to power and weave intergenerational alliances is a powerful force for our community, and society as a whole. LGBTIQ youth are our future. They are also our present. And together we can change the world.