¿Qué harás este #SanValentin?
A pesar de lo que los medios de comunicación y el marketing pueden sugerir, el Día de San Valentín no es sólo un día de amor y afecto para personas heterosexuales – es un día para todo el mundo (sí,...
More news coming in from around the IDAHOT world!
With only two months to go until IDAHOT 2015, organizations and groups around the world are getting closer to finalizing their plans for action on and around May 17. With the global theme ‘LGBTI Youth’, many major international and regional youth and...
Football vs. Homophobia announces IDAHOT Grants
Football vs. Homophobia makes 10 grants available worth 400 Euros each Football v Homophobia and the Fare Network are providing a small grants programme for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia (IDAHOT). The small grants are for grass...
News coming in from around the world on IDAHOT 2015 plans
As the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia draws nearer, across the globe plans for action are becoming more concrete. Although many organisations cannot publicly communicate on them for security reasons, we hope that the few snapshots below, which...
Transgender Day of Visibility – Celebrating visible progress
Although the fight for justice and equality for Trans individuals is still in its early stages, much progress has been made since last Transgender Day of Visibility (TdoV). Today, we recognise some of the wonderful work being done by trans advocates...
IDAHOT Chair, Venezuelan Trans activist Tamara Adrian marks Transgender Day of Visibility
"It is a duty of the IDAHOT Committee to honor and support the International Day for Trans Visibility. The Trans community is, within LGBTI circles, without any doubt the one that is most vulnerable and susceptible to stigma and discrimination....
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – LGBTIs are all concerned!
21 March is a special day, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in October 1966 as International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Sexual and gender minorities have many reasons to side with racial minorities (or for that matter oppressed racial...
We salute International Women's Day
On March 8th, we celebrate International Women’s Day. One day, when hundreds of millions of women around the world will probably live like any other day. They will face the same injustice, ignorance, violence and oppression. And, like any other...
Research Confirms May 17 as Essential Annual Date on Social Media
As the single most important annual date for global LGBT mobilisation, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia obviously generates a lot of activity on social media. But how much this activity in reality represents is not easy to apprehend,...
Remembering and Honouring LGBT Victims on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Last Tuesday, 27 January, was the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the international memorial day for all the lives lost in the Holocaust. This year's Remembrance Day also marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps in Auschwitz...
Fallece Pedro Lemebel, desafiantemente homosexual y grande de las letras chilenas
Mi hombría es aceptarme diferenteSer cobarde es mucho más duroYo no pongo la otra mejillaPongo el culo compañeroY ésa es mi venganza El escritor y artista plástico Pedro Lemebel falleció en la madrugada de este viernes (hora local) en Providencia, Santiago de Chile,...
Celebran el primer matrimonio igualitario en Mexicali después de cuatro intentos fallidos
Este sábado se celebró la primera boda entre dos personas del mismo sexo en la localidad mexicana de Mexicali, después de año y medio de batalla legal en la que las autoridades locales intentaron detener las uniones pese a que...
Temática IDAHOT 2015: Juventud LGBT
Todxs los jóvenes Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales, Trans* e Intersex, LGBTI, son personas que tienen el derecho a crecer en un ambiente seguro y acogedor, donde puedan desarrollar sus personalidades y talentos con respeto de sus características individuales. Desafortunadamente las investigaciones...
El gobierno de Brasil busca aprobar una ley específica contra la homofobia
La presidenta Dilma Rousseff buscará la aprobación de una ley que convierta en delito la homofobia pese a la oposición de líderes evangélicos, que son influyentes entre el electorado y dentro del Congreso. Así como en Brasil existe una ley...
Google anuncia posibilidad de elección de género en Google+
Google ha anunciado una nueva actualización dirigida al editor del perfil de Google+, la red social de la compañía de Mountain View. Gracias a esta novedad, el usuario podrá definir su propio género a su antojo, ya que para ello, la firma incluirá un...
Derechos humanos para todos y todas
Este último 10 de diciembre, muchas celebraciones se llevaron a cabo para conmemorar el Día de los Derechos Humanos, una de las celebraciones más emblemáticas de las Naciones Unidas. En nuestra región ésta fecha no pasó desapercibida y sirvió para visibilizar...
Human Rights Day for all
On this December 10th, many celebrations take place to mark Human Rights Day, one of the most iconic United Nations' celebrations. But most of these celebrations will focus on one specific group, and that's understandable. We all want, and need,...
European Union releases analysis of the situation of Trans people in Europe
Trans persons, or those whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from the sex assigned them at birth, face frequent discrimination, harassment and violence across the European Union (EU) today. This reality triggers fears that persuade many to hide or...
Jóvenes se reúnen para discutir situación del VIH en Latinoamerica y el Caribe
Bajo el lema "Protagonismo y resistencia en la reducción de vulnerabilidades" más de 80 jóvenes de 15 países de Latinoamerica y el Caribe se reúnen en la ciudad brasileña de Salvador de Bahía en el 3º Encuentro de Jóvenes Positivos...
Los Jóvenes LGBT y el VIH. Entre obstáculos y desafíos
Con motivo del Día Internacional de Lucha contra el SIDA le realizamos una entrevista al Dr. Gustavo Lopez, abogado y Coordinador del Área Legal de Nexo AC, una ONG con base en Buenos Aires, Argentina cuya misión es mejorar la...
Ending HIV-AIDS: Close the Gap for Young People
The International Federation of LGBTI Youth organisations, IGLYO, shares insights on why it matters. Original article here Brussels, December 1st, 2014 - On occasion of World AIDS Day, IGLYO, the International LGBTQ Youth & Student Organisation, call on...
Young People and HIV – Missing link ?
The International Planned Parenthood Federation offers interesting insights on this issue, which we republish for World Aids Day Original article here HIV is now the second largest cause of adolescent mortality globally. Here Alvaro Bermejo, Executive Director of the International...
En puente entre el 1 diciembre y el 17 mayo: Los jóvenes y el VIH
El próximo IDAHOT - 17 de Mayo pondrá su enfoque global en particular en los jóvenes LGBTI. El Día Internacional de lucha contra el Sida también ofrece una importante oportunidad para llamar nuestra atención sobre los temas específicos que los...
Día de la Memoria Transgénero
Desde hace años se viene conmemorando el Día de la Memoria Transgénero (Transgender Day of Remembrance). Son ya diez años en que se recuerdan a las y los compañeros que han visto segadas sus vidas por el odio irracional de...
26 de octubre: “Día de la Conciencia Intersex”
A fines de octubre del año 1996 tuvo lugar la primera demostración pública de intersexuales de la historia reciente en Boston, Estados Unidos, con motivo de la Reunión Anual de la Academia Americana de Pediatría que se llevaba a cabo aquel 26 de octubre. Dicha...
Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer
¿Por qué este Día internacional? Debido a que: La violencia contra la mujer es una violación de los derechos humanos La violencia contra la mujer es consecuencia de la discriminación que sufre, tanto en leyes como en la práctica, y...
Bridging December 1st to May 17th: Young people and HIV
Next IDAHOT-May 17 will put a particular global focus on LGBTI youth. World Aids Day today certainly also provides an important opportunity to draw our attention to the very specific issues that young LGBT experience in the face of HIV....
IDAHOT 2015 Focus Issue to be LGBTI Youth
All young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* & Intersex, LGBTI, people have the right to grow up in safe and welcoming environments, where they can develop their personalities and talents respectfully of their individualities. The International Day Against Homophobia and...
Transgender Day of Remembrance is on November 20th
On November 20th, the world will be commemorating the Transgender Day of Remembrance. This Day exists since 1998 to honor the many friends from the Trans community who have fallen under transphobic hate crime, and to raise our voice against all...
Un hondureño defensor de los derechos LGTB asegura que intentaron secuestrarle
Nelson Arambú, conocido por ser defensor de los derechos LGTB en Honduras, ha hecho unas declaraciones a un medio según las cuáles, parece que trataron de secuestrarle el pasado mes de septiembre. Para hablar de la siguiente noticia en nuestro...
Intersex awareness Day – Morgan Carpenter, from the Organisation Intersex International, shares thoughts
PEOPLE with intersex variations are born with atypical physical sex characteristics. We face a range of health and human rights issues — and deep-seated stigma — caught between two contrasting visions of who and how we should be. On the one hand, this includes medical interventions in...
Manuel Canelas, primer diputado abiertamente gay de Bolivia
Su nombre es Manuel Canelas, ha estudiado en España, y este 12 de octubre, día en que se celebraron elecciones legislativas y presidenciales, se convertía en el primer diputado electo abiertamente gay de la historia de Bolivia, en representación de...
New Research Shows Need to Address SOGI Stigma in Fight Against HIV
Results of a new international field scan, conducted by the IDAHO Committee and partners, indicate an urgent need to address stigma based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression (SOGI), in the global fight against HIV. Released to coincide with the...
IDAHOT 2014 Annual Reports Now Live !
The annual IDAHOT country reports, as well as the IDAHO Committee Summary Report 2014, are now live and complete. Together, they give a full panorama of the May 17 commemorations in the 125 countries where (a total of more than...
IDAHOT Report 2014: India
India In India, two contributions to the celebration of the IDAHOT 2014 were reported. Actions addressed the petition at the Supreme Court to officially recognise third gender communities, and also the theme of the Right to Love - with a...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Lithuania
Lithuania May 17 actions in Lithuania spread over three weeks, and three cities, and engaged strongly with the international focus on Freedom of Expression. Highlights included a high-profile opening reception co-hosted by 14 embassies, a bus-top tour in the capital...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Serbia
Serbia Different groups and organisations in Belgrade, Serbia prepared for a variety of actions to commemorate IDAHOT, but due to the natural disaster - creating mass floods - in the Balkans right before May 17, all the actions on and...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Iran
Iran Iranian LGBT and feminist activists commemorated May 17, as a way of promoting freedom of expression for LGBT people, and for all, in Iran. One of the goals of the campaigns was to end hate speech against, and scapegoating...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Morocco
Morocco The association "Voices of Sexual Minorities" (ASWAT) launched a campaign in Morocco to fight against the 'ill treatment of sexual minorities' within Moroccan society on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. The campaign was launched only a few day...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Norway
Norway Since Norwegians celebrate Norway's Constitutional Day on May 17, IDAHOT actions usually do not take place. Nevertheless, LLH (LGBT Organisation for Norway) used the occasion to mark IDAHOT by launching an initiative for Euro Pride 2014, which will be held...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Luxembourg
Luxembourg In Luxembourg, various actions including an online campaign were organised to commemorate the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia. Rosa Lëtzebuerg, together with the information center CIGALE held an action called "1000 Hands against Discrimination" at the Clairfontainesplaz in...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Czech Republic
Czech Republic In the Czech Republic, at least one event in commemoration of the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia can be reported on. The event highlighted the achievements and efforts that have been put forward in the last year...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Cambodia
Cambodia A coalition of LGBTI and other civil society groups came together in the capital, Phnom Penh, on May 16 - 17, to commemorate Gay Pride, and the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) Cambodia 2014. For a full...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Tanzania
Tanzania The Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights marked May 17 with a statement that demands the protection of the human rights of LGBTQI individuals and allied human rights defenders. It also calls for the protection of the right to...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Macau
Macau In Macau, the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia was celebrated with a two-day event in different locations, organised by the Rainbow of Macau. On May 17 and 18, Rainbow of Macau organised a mini-exhibit and sticker action. Everyone...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Latvia
Latvia Latvia celebrated IDAHOT 2014 with an "express yourself" photo booth in Riga. Allies and families of LGBT activists constituted a big part of the crowd. LGBT activists and their friends at MOSAIC organization invited community members and supporters to...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Switzerland
Switzerland Various actions took place to commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia 2014 in Switzerland, in different cities, and spanning a great diversity of types of action and themes addressed. Dialogi actions in Geneva - Love Does Not...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Austria
Austria In Austria, events took place for the IDAHOT 2014 in at least two cities. Actions were focused on raising awareness of the victims of LGBTI-phobic hate crimes, on the present situation of LGBTI rights in the country, and on...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Hong Kong
Hong Kong Hong Kong saw a great variety of actions during the week around IDAHOT 2014. Organized by an alliance of four human rights organizations (Pink Alliance, Pink Season 粉紅天, Amnesty International Hong Kong, and Transgender Resource Center), the IDAHOT-HK committee was...
IDAHOT report 2014: Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia The national LGBT organisation United and Strong Inc marked the May 17 observance with a video release online entitled, “Speak up, Speak Out, Speak Love”. This is in keeping with the IDAHOT 2014 focus on freedom of expression...
IDAHOT Report 2014: The Philippines
The Philippines LGBT activists in the Philippines marked the IDAHOT 2014, starting in the first week of May. The Grand Reunion Dubbed as a pre-launch of IDAHOT celebration in the Philippines, "The Grand Reunion: (L)ets (G)et (B)old (T)onight" party on...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Sudan
Sudan Local LGBTI communities and allies in Sudan commemorated the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2014 with various actions in the capital Khartoum. Events included a day of activities, sessions and seminars around May 17. The 'Everyone is Different'...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Albania
Albania IDAHOT 2014 in Albania included the premiere of the first documentary on LGBT communities in the country, a Festival of Diversity and a set of panels, and the 3rd Annual May 17 Gay Ride through the streets of the...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina For the third year in a row, the Sarajevo Open Center (SOC), together with other organisations, organised a series of events in commemoration of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. The title of the events and campaign...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Kosovo
Kosovo Kosovo witnessed a milestone May 17 celebration this year, with the involvement of politicians and the guarantee of effective security measures by the police. The Kosovo Government building also reflected rainbow colors at night on May 17. On May...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Hungary
Hungary In Hungary, the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organisation, IGLYO, organised an IDAHOT seminar in Budapest, together with partners. The organisation Háttér organised a seminar focused on human rights and the legal status of LGBTQI people. In Szeged, the...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Macedonia
Macedonia In Macedonia, various LGBTI and human rights groups, as well as their allies, organised a wide variety of events around the IDAHOT 2014, in what local activists described as the most beautiful, peaceful and important May 17. We thank...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Romania
Romania Romanian LGBT organizations commemorated the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia 2014, with a video release, a poster campaign and a public meeting on the social rights of LGBTI people Activists invited community members to a venue where they...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Thailand
Thailand In Thailand actions for IDAHOT 2014 took place in various cities, involving all kinds of different stakeholders - from UN agencies to schools and young people to trans* and gender non-conforming communities, to artists and community activists. Topics highlighted...
IDAHOT Report 2014: New Zealand
New Zealand In New Zealand, events to commemorate the IDAHOT 2014 took place in six different locations, and included an art project and series of nationwide picnics. Kia ora! Big Gay Picnics Across New Zealand, communities came together for picnic...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan In Azerbaijan, the organisation Nəfəs LGBT Azərbaycan Alyansı prepared two actions in order to commemorate IDAHOT 2014. The actions highlighted the importance of accepting LGBT people as part of society and also challenged violence and hatred against LGBT comunities...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Israel
Israel In Israel, LGBTI organisations and allies came together for two events in Jerusalem, as well as two events in Tel Aviv and a radio interview to mark the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia 2014, amongst other highlights. Jerusalem...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan In Kyrgyzstan, the organisation Labrys organised a diverse week-long programme in celebration of the IDAHOT - the 'Kyrgyz Week Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2014'. The events addressed new legal and political developments in Kyrgyzstan, especially given the recent...
IDAHOT Report 2014: Egypt
Egypt Egyptian activists marked May 17, 2014, with the “Everyone is Different” online campaign, as well as a day of action to support trans communities, sport activities, theatre plays, media productions, videos, articles and radio episodes about homophobia. The campaign...
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