"So when and how did this convention begin?"

Mae Li, aka Beth Maza, put together and ran the first Gathering of the Gargoyles mostly by herself. It was held June of 1997 at the Mayflower Hotel in Manhattan, New York. The convention is said to
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adding Florida to the list of six mid-west states that The Gathering had been banned from by 2014.

The 2020 Gathering, to be held at the Radisson SAS Alcron Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic, marks the sixth time the convention will travel out of United States. Its only a few months away, and is shaping up to be one of the most memorable yet!