The First Decade of a New Millennium
In 2000, in an effort to improve representation within IGLYO, the organisation hosted its first Women’s Conference that took place in Berlin, Germany. The event was a ‘women only’ activity where self-defined women discussed issues such as health, violence, safe-sex, and feminist politics.
In 2002, in response to the ongoing expansion of the EU, IGLYO organised a hearing on discrimination against LGBTQI youth in accession countries in cooperation with the student organisation of the university of Ljubljana and COC Netherlands in Ljubljana.
At the Krakow conference’s General Meeting in 2005, the organisation officially changed its name to the name we know and love today IGLYO — The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Youth and Student organisation, following the need to fully reflect the membership’s diversity.
In 2007, IGLYO launched a new periodical magazine titled “IGLYO on…” in parallel to its news bulletins. Each issue explored in depth a theme affecting queer youth through articles and opinion pieces, in the likes of its past Speak Out bulletins.
In 2008, IGLYO hired its first paid full-time staff member in its modern period, an Office Administrator, and, in 2009, the organisation received structural funding from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture as well as from the Dutch Government, in addition to the existing funding from the Council of Europe. This allowed IGLYO to open an administrative secretariat in Brussels, and built the foundations of IGLYO as it exists today.
