This year’s ILGA-Europe Annual Conference takes place in Athens, Greece, 28 - 31 October, featuring many exciting speakers as well as over 40 workshops on a variety of topics related to LGBTI issues.

The theme of the conference is "Many voices, One movement - Together, mobilised for a just society", and will address questions focusing on ways forward from being standard bearers of human rights and democratic values to effecting positive change and rallying new allies (preliminary programme)

Confirmed keynote speakers include: Elke Ferner, deputy minister at the German Ministry for Family Affairs, Women and Youth; Randy W. Berry, U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons; Geeta Misra, Executive Director of CREA (a feminist human rights organization based in India); Yorgos Kaminis, Mayor of Athens; and Mike Jackson was a founding member of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) in 1984/5, whose story is told in the 2014 film "Pride".

ILGA-Europe is the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), an international non-governmental umbrella organization for 400 organisations from 45 European countries.This year’s local team of organisers consists of OLKE (Greece’s LGBT Community) in collaboration with SYD (Transgender Association of Greece), Rainbow Families, Colour Youth, Athens Pride, Thessaloniki Pride and Praksis.