Outright International Webinar Series
"We Will Not Bow to Fear": Pride Around the World in 2025
Join Outright International for the official launch of our annual Pride Around the World report. Find out what it means to celebrate Pride when the stakes have never been higher.
June 18, 2026 @ 9:00 AM EST
About This Webinar
In 2025, public Pride or LGBTIQ visibility events took place in 101 countries. In too many places, Pride faced government bans, arrests, and organized counter-mobilizations. This is the reality the 2025 Pride Around the World report documents. During the webinar, we’ll explore what the data reveals and what it demands of the global movement.
Join us for an in-depth analysis of Pride in Costa Rica, Hungary, Romania, Saint Lucia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Viet Nam. We’ll examine asexual inclusion in Pride events in Hungary and Italy, and WorldPride 2025 in Washington, D.C., which was held just months after the United States government dismantled human rights funding and imposed exclusionary policies. We believe this critical data will amplify the voices of global human rights advocates taking up space and fighting for LGBTIQ lives. Outright encourages activists and allies around the world to join forces and ensure that at Pride and throughout the year, their voices will not be silenced.
Webinar Highlights
- A global snapshot of where Pride was celebrated, contested, and suppressed in 2025
- In-depth analysis of seven countries and the movements driving change within them
- Receive the full report in your inbox after the webinar
Meet the Panelists
Ohotuowo Ogbeche
Ohotuowo Ogbeche (she/her) is a lawyer and feminist researcher who leads Outright's global research work, producing reports that advance knowledge of LGBTIQ people's lives and inform human rights protections worldwide. She is a 2026 Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program changemaker at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights and holds an LL.M in Human Rights Law from the University of Pretoria.
Viktória Radvanyi
Viktória Radvanyi (she/they) is a human rights defender representing Budapest Pride, one of Hungary's largest LGBTQ civil society organizations. A multiple international award recipient, she works through an intersectional feminist lens toward authentic queer representation as a path to full legal and social emancipation of the LGBTQ community in Hungary and beyond.
Oana Iacob-Le Roy
Oana Iacob-Le Roy (she/her) is External Relations Manager at ARK Oradea, a Romanian organization dedicated to human rights, inclusion, and dignity for LGBTQIA+ people in Bihor County. She supports the organization in claiming public space — a right repeatedly denied by local authorities, most recently through the ban of the first Oradea Pride March in 2025.
Weema Askri
Weema Askri (they/he) is a Tunisian non-binary program manager and human rights advocate at Mawjoudin for Equality, with over eight years of experience in LGBTQI+ rights, sexual and reproductive health, and community organizing. They lead initiatives improving healthcare access, community wellbeing, and advocacy for marginalized communities in Tunisia and across the region.
Dayana Álvarez
Dayana Álvarez has been president of Orgullo Costa Rica since 2026, making her the first woman and the first lesbian to lead the organization. A psychology student, she advocates for greater visibility and representation for all sexual and gender identities, strengthening the bonds between communities. Convinced that there can be no full rights without emotional well-being, she promotes mental health as a tool for community transformation and resilience.
Ngo Le Phuong Linh
Ngo Le Phuong Linh (she/her) is Executive Director of ICS Center, where she has spent over a decade advancing LGBTI+ rights in Vietnam and across Asia. A ViLEAD alumni and former two-term ILGA Asia Board member, she successfully brought the first ILGA Asia Conference to Vietnam in 2022. She is committed to achieving marriage equality in Vietnam and elevating LBQT women in the national gender equality agenda.
Webinar Sponsor
This year's Pride Around the World report and webinar are made possible by generous support from Deutsche Bank.