Research
PrideRadar is an ongoing research project of InterPride that tracks the progress of the global Pride movement by collecting and publishing relevant data. Two reports have been produced to date. PrideRadar was initiated by Billy Urich, former Vice President and Chair of the Human Rights Committee, and Mark Frederick Chapman, former Co-President of InterPride. They envisioned bringing together data on Prides worldwide in one report.
InterPride released the first edition of the PrideRadar Report in 2012, InterPride’s 30th anniversary. This report provided a first-of-its-kind global overview of local, regional, and international organizations that comprise the Pride movement. This report provided a breakdown of the distribution of Pride events across the world at that time, as well as an indication of the political environments in which they took place.
InterPride released the second edition of the PrideRadar research report in 2016/ 2017. The first edition’s data was expanded upon in the second edition. At the local level, it provided an initial assessment of the economic and human rights impacts of Pride organizing and the barriers that organizers face.
Research for the third edition of the report, scheduled to commence in 2022, will build on the foundational work completed in the first two reports. The findings of previous editions will be utilized in a new way to track the progress of the global movement.
Local, national, regional, and international impacts will be assessed. The development of a methodology for monitoring Pride’s impact on human rights, community development, economics, and social systems will be examined and defined. Cross-sectional and comparative data sets will be added to this edition to improve data analysis. The third edition will establish itself as the authoritative source on the evolving role and definition of Pride globally.