As a network, ILGA is still to this day a democratic organisation. To facilitate decision-making and ensure that the organisation represents its members, Board elections are organised during ILGA conferences.

The World Board is composed of two Secretaries General (one female, one male) and two Representatives for every region. If members of a region organise a regional conference, they may also decide to elect there those two representatives who will sit on the World Board of ILGA. Regional conferences are also the place to elect representatives for a region, to sit on its regional Board.

The Secretaries General and the rest of the Executive Board determine and implement policy within ILGA between world conferences.

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The current Board of ILGA was elected in Manila during the previous ILGA World Conference in 2003, except for the Latin American representatives elected in Santiago de Chile in September 2004, the Asian representatives, elected at the last ILGA Asian Conference in Cebu (The Philippines) in October 2005, and the representatives for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands who were elected in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2005.

Rosanna Flamer-Caldera and Kursad Kahramanoglu are the Co-Secretaries General of ILGA.

The Women's Media Circle (The Philippines) was elected as Women’s Secretariat.

According to ILGA's current constitution, two representatives (one female and one male) are to be elected in each region :

-Africa : Vacant positions.

- Asia : Mira Ofreneo, Aung Myo Min
ILGA’s last regional conference decided to include a transgender activist in its board : Zainal Abidin Bin Ariffin was elected to this position.

- Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands : Uma Kali Shakti,Tim Barnett ILGA’s last regional conference decided to include a "Gender Diverse" and an "Indigenous Representative" activist in its board: Joey Matale and Te Herekiekie Herewini were elected to these positions.

- Europe : Jackie Lewis, Janfrans van der Eerden
Ruth Baldacchino, Yves de Matteis, reserve members

- Latin America and the Caribbean – ILTGALAC : Patria Jiménez , Beto de Jesus
ILGA’s last regional conference decided to change its constitution for the regional board to include a transgender activist. Belissa Andía Pérez was elected to this position.

- North America : Trinity A. Ordona, Yvan Lapointe