Nicolas Rodriguez

Nicolas is part of PRIDE SV – Marcha Por la Diversidad en El Salvador. At 42 years old, he came out of the closet when he was 19; at that precise moment, his family rejected him from home; being alone, he tried to find information about LGBTIQ issues in Spanish, which was a real challenge at that time. For that reason, he promised to create a Spanish webpage with LGBTIQ resources. After finishing his journalist/advertising career, he found the webpage: ELSALVADORG, the LGBTIQ news media in Central America; started covering in Spanish: the AIDS world conferences and the GAY GAMES. Suddenly he became the PRIDE logistic manager in San Salvador in 2009, creating the Pridefest, call to action events, doing rainbow crosswalks, revealing big flags on iconic buildings, etc. After this, He got an Internship at the Los Angeles LGBT center in 2012; years later, he did a “Self Internship” on Heritage Of pride NYC in 2016; after this, he met InterPride, becoming a member in 2018. Since then, he has helped créate with other Latino colleagues a virtual gathering of Latino countries pride organizers group (Orgullo Latinoamerica).

In 2020’s Quarantine, the Pandemic year, he developed ORGULLO EN CASA, a local version of “virtual global pride” for El Salvador; then, in 2021, knowing that the pandemic was not going away, he made a pride march with social distance. Still, at the same time, broadcast all the march on the internet for all people couldn’t be on pride for seen from their homes. In 2021, Nicholas was elected as VP of Global Outreach & Partnership Management in the last months.