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Stripped of your rights? Strip for them!

Uncovering oneself in an action can garner a lot of media coverage and campaigns to reclaim body and sexual rights will be even more tempted than others to actually feature the object of the claim : the body and the sexualities. Women's...

IDAHO February 3, 2015

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Raising the Flag

An interview with IDAHO Committee Advisory Board member Rosanna Flamer-Caldera who heads the Sri Lankan LGBT group Equal Ground exposes how the organisation managed to get many foreign diplomatic representations to raise the Rainbow Flag in Colombo for May 17th...

IDAHO January 29, 2015

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Cure Homophobia!

In many contexts, having a sexual orientation or a gender identity that does not conform to mainstream norms is considered a mental health issue, despite WHO declassifying homosexuality as such back in 1990. To mock that belief, a powerful strategy is to...

IDAHO January 23, 2015

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Photo Competition

A photography competition could be a great way to encourage participation from the community, to change public attitudes and promote discussion (in the form of an exhibition), and also to promote different images of LGBT people on social media. In...

IDAHO September 28, 2014

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Freedom Festival

Inspired by human rights activists in Liberia, who organised for IDAHOT 2014, a Freedom Festival is a bundle of different expressive actions and events, which creates space for community-building, creativity and acceptance. A Freedom Festival is basically a mix of...

IDAHO September 28, 2014

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Hand-Holding Flashmob or Human Chain

How many times have you (or someone you care about) walked in the street holding hands with a same sex partner, and felt insecure about people's reactions? Perhaps complete strangers have glared at you, name called, verbally abused or threatened...

IDAHO September 24, 2014

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Do a Kiss-in (or a "Kiss-in Rainbow Lips Flashmob"!)

Kiss-ins are one of the easiest, most low cost, fun, and still effective actions you can organise for IDAHOT, or for other LGBTQI solidarity actions - and they can be organised at quite short notice, too! For IDAHO 2010, activists...

IDAHO September 24, 2014

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Be (In)visible !

Protest of the Invisible – an arts display of shoes The long walk to freedom starts with a “Stand-in” of empty shoes. Interview with activists from Tbilissi, Georgia on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2014 - Where/how did...

IDAHO September 16, 2014

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Rainbow Flashmob (Rainbow Balloon Release, from Ukraine)

Over the past five years, rainbow flash balloon releases - or simply "rainbow flashmobs" - have become a core tactic for many groups taking action on IDAHOT, particularly in Eastern Europe. In 2009, for example, 35 of these events were...

IDAHO September 8, 2014

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Free Hugs (from Portugal)

Who doesn't want a free hug?! And what better way to spread the love - and the message of love! - than by hugging the people around us? This is a totally low, or no, cost action as well. Hugs...

IDAHO September 8, 2014

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Activist Voices: Rainbow Chalking in Bangkok's schools

Rainbow Chalk-ins or DIY Rainbow projects have grown massively in popularity over the past few years - from Sydney, to London, to Toronto and back to Bangkok, and beyond. They can make for visually impressive actions, which contest the exclusion...

IDAHO September 3, 2014

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Guerrilla Gardening (and the Pansy Project)

In recent years, “guerrilla gardening” has become a popular term for people planting flowers and trees as a symbol of protest, and as a way of coming together as a community, to reclaim public spaces. When a single flower blooms,...

IDAHO August 17, 2014

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