BACKGROUND
The Highland LGBT Forum started life as the Inverness Pride Committee in 2002 when Pride Scotland decided to take its annual event outside Edinburgh and Glasgow for the first time. Inverness Pride was a huge success (with some 300 people attending the main Pride party) and proved that members of different groups within the LGBT community could work together and achieve very positive results.
When Pride was over, the committee decided to stay together to take forward all the more serious issues facing us as a community such as geographical and social isolation, lack of access to information and lack of positive images. We submitted a report on these and other matters to the Scottish Parliament as part of their consultation entitled 'Taking Stock (Sexual Orientation Issues)'.
Over the next few years we made connections with the Equality Network, Stonewall Scotland, LGBT Youth Scotland and Reach Out Highland.
COMMITTEE
The current committee of the Highland LGBT Forum is Stewart Cunningham (Chair),
Rachel Koktava (Secretary), Rory Stewart (Treasurer) plus 7 committee members.
The Forum is an independent, self-governing organisation. The committee has L, G, B and T members.
Highland LGBT Forum Constitution (PDF, 30 KB)
CHARITABLE STATUS
In April 2008, The Highland LGBT Forum was awarded charitable status by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.
The Highland LGBT Forum is a charity registered in Scotland No. SC039528.
