[diversity] Hosting RIPE85 in Serbia that is trying to cancel EuroPride 2022
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Leslie
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Sun Aug 28 06:01:10 CEST 2022
For large events like RIPE, contracts have to be signed 1.5-3 years in advance, and the Serbian announcement was just today. Unfortunately, large events can't adjust locations that quickly On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 1:17 PM Cynthia Revström <me at cynthia.re> wrote: > > Hi, > > It appears that the Serbian president is currently attempting to > cancel the EuroPride 2022 event that the Serbian PM earlier committed > to fully support[1]. > > I feel like hosting RIPE meetings in countries that would try to > cancel pride events, seemingly at least in part because of anti-LGBTQ+ > protesters is not great if we want to increase diversity and > inclusivity. > > Sure, it is a lot better than when it was decided to host one in the > UAE a few years ago but that is a pretty low bar. > > To further increase diversity and inclusion, I think it would make > sense to require that the RIPE meetings are only hosted in > cities/countries that support LGBTQ+ rights. > > While not the entire reason, it being hosted in Serbia was part of my > decision to not attend RIPE85. > > [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62700240 > > -Cynthia > > _______________________________________________ > diversity mailing list > diversity at ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/diversity
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