2026
IDAHOBIT 2026 Celebration
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) Celebration
This Saturday, 16 May 2026, we gather at House of Khumali (Molapo Crossing) for our International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) commemoration, under the global theme: “The Power of Communities.”
And this theme matters now more than ever. Because communities are not only where we find belonging; they are also where we find protection, courage, and the collective strength to challenge systems that impact LGBTQ+ lives and rights.
This year’s commemoration also highlights the ongoing matter of
Bonolo Selelo & Tsholofelo Seele Kumile vs The Acting Director of Civil Registration & The Attorney General; a reminder that dignity, recognition, and equality are not abstract ideas, but real struggles that require real community solidarity.
When individuals are faced with barriers, it is communities that amplify their voices.
When systems feel heavy, it is communities that carry the hope forward.
When rights are questioned, it is communities that insist: we are here, and we matter. That is the power we are gathering to honour.
📍House of Khumali | 🕛 1200hrs | 📅 16 May 2026 | 🎟️ RSVP: 77797779/ 77314390
We invite you to stand with us not just in presence, but in solidarity, in awareness, and in action. Because when communities show up, change is not only possible, it is inevitable.
IDAHOBIT 2026 Webinar – Eswatini Sexual & Gender Minorities
Join ESGM for an IDAHOBIT Webinar streaming live on YouTube as we engage in meaningful conversations on inclusion, equality, dignity, and human rights for LGBTIQ+ persons.
The webinar will bring together diverse voices to reflect on the significance of IDAHOBIT and the importance of creating safer and more inclusive communities for all.
📅 Thursday, 14 May 2026
⏰ 13:00 hrs – 14:00 hrs
📺 Live on YouTube
Art Gallery: Celebrating Diversity Through Art
🏳️🌈May 17 Is calling you! 🏳️⚧️- ဖြစ်တည်မှုများမှသည် ဒီမိုကရေစီသို့
အနုပညာဆိုတာ ထိန်းချုပ်ကန့်သတ်လို့ရတဲ့ အရာ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး။
တလောကလုံး အမှောင်ဖုံးနေတယ်ဆိုရင်တောင်မှ
အနုပညာဆိုတာက အလင်းရောင်တခုအဖြစ် တောက်ပနေဆဲဖြစ်ပါလိမ့်မယ်။
အနုပညာဆိုတာ ကျွန်တော်တို့ရဲ့ ဖန်တီးမှု၊ ကျွန်တော်တို့ရဲ့ အသံ၊
ကျွန်တော်တို့ရဲ့ ဖြစ်တည်မှု အားလုံးကို ကိုယ်စားပြုတဲ့ အရာတစ်ခုပါ။
ကျွန်တော်တို့ Kings N Queens၊ Queers of Burma Alternative(QBA)၊ Myanmar Rainbow Political Community (MRPC) နှင့် Than Lwin Khet News တို့မှ ပူးပေါင်းကျင်းပသော IDAHOBIT နေ့အထိမ်းအမှတ်ပွဲမှာလည်း
LGBTQ+ တွေနဲ့ ထောက်ခံဝန်းရံသူတို့ရဲ့ အနုပညာလက်ရာတွေက
ဘာတွေကို ကိုယ်စားပြုလဲ၊ ဘယ်လို အသံတွေကို ဖော်ထုတ်ပြသသွားမလဲဆိုတာ ရင်ခုန်စွာနဲ့ လာရောက်ကြည့်ရှု့ပေးဖို့ ဖိတ်ခေါ်ပါရစေခင်ဗျာ။
English Version
🏳️🌈May 17 Is calling you!🏳️⚧️ - From Identities to Democracy
Art is not something that can be controlled or restricted.
Even if the whole world is covered in darkness, art will continue to shine as a light.
Art represents our creativity, our voices, and our very existence.
At the IDAHOBIT commemorative event jointly organized by Kings N Queens, Queers of Burma Alternative (QBA), Myanmar Rainbow Political Community (MRPC), and Than Lwin Khet News, we warmly invite you to come and experience the artworks created by LGBTQ+ individuals and allies — to see what they represent, the stories they carry, and the voices they courageously express.
IDAHOBIT SAMOA 2026 – “At the Heart of Democracy”
🌈 IDAHOBIT SAMOA 2026 🌈
“At the Heart of Democracy”
Visibility is democracy. Safety is a right. Community is power. ✊🏽💜
This year, Brown Girl Woke, Samoa Fa’afafine & Fa’atama Association (SFA), ILGA Oceania and OHCHR come together to create a space for talanoa, storytelling, learning and community healing through our Know Your Rights work and youth-led media.
In Samoa, democracy must include all of us — especially our fa’afafine, fa’atama, queer and marginalized youth whose voices are too often silenced, mocked or excluded.
This is more than an event.
It is about identity, dignity, protection, chosen family and creating safer futures for our young people.
Join us for:
✨ Know Your Rights Talanoa
🎥 Closed Community Screening
🎤 Youth Voices & Participation
🌈 Ballroom & Chosen Family Conversations
📸 Storytelling & Community Media
📍 BGW Community Space
📅 Monday 18 May 2026
🕔 5:00PM – 8:30PM
Thank you to our partners and community who continue to stand for love, safety and human rights in Samoa. 💜
Film screening – Stories. Real Lives. Real Change.
🌈 IDAHOBIT 🌈
သမိုင်းမှတ်တမ်းဆိုတာ ဖျောက်ဖျက်လို့ မရတဲ့ ပုံရိပ်တစ်ခုပါ။
တစ်ခါတလေမှာ ပစ္စုပ္ပန်ကို နားလည်နိုင်ဖို့ အတိတ်ကို သိနေဖို့
လိုအပ်သလို သိထားသမျှကို ပြန်လည်သုံးသပ်နိုင်ဖို့လည်း လိုအပ်ပါတယ်။
LGBTQ+ တွေရဲ့ အတိတ်မှာ ဘယ်လိုဖိနှိပ်ခံခဲ့ရလဲ၊ ဘယ်လို ခွဲခြားဆက်ဆံခံခဲ့ရလဲ။
ဒီလို ဖယ်ကြဥ်ခံရမှုတွေကို ဘယ်လို ကြံကြံခံခဲ့ပြီး
လက်ရှိအခြေအနေလောက်အထိ လူ့ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်မှာ ဘယ်လို ကြိုးစား
အားထုတ်ခဲ့ရလဲဆိုတဲ့ မှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင်တစ်ခုက
IDAHOBIT နဲ့အတူ ကျွန်တော်တို့ မြင်တွေ့ခံစားရမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
LGBTQ+ တွေရဲ့ ဖြစ်တည်မှုကို နားလည်နိုင်ပြီး
လူသားအချင်းချင်း ကိုယ်ချင်းစာတရားတွေ ပိုမိုထားနိုင်ဖို့အတွက်
IDAHOBIT နေ့ရဲ့ မှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင်လေးကို
လာရောက်ကြည့်ရှု့ဖို့အတွက် ဖိတ်ခေါ်လိုက်ပါတယ်။
English version
History is a reflection that cannot be erased. Sometimes, in order to understand the present, we need to know the past — and we also need to revisit and reflect on what we have learned.
How were LGBTQ+ individuals oppressed in the past? How were they discriminated against? How did they endure exclusion and continue striving to claim their place in society despite countless challenges?
These are the stories and realities we will witness and feel together through a documentary screening as part of our IDAHOBIT commemoration.
We warmly invite you to join us in watching this documentary, to better understand the existence and experiences of LGBTQ+ communities, and to nurture greater empathy, compassion, and humanity toward one another.
IDAHOBIT Panel discussion: From Identities to Democracy
🌈 Your Seat at the IDAHOBIT Panel Awaits 🌈-
ဖြစ်တည်မှုများမှသည် ဒီမိုကရေစီသို့
မေလ ၁၇ ရက်နေ့မှာ ကျင်းပမယ့် IDAHOBIT Panel Discussion တွင် ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးပေးမည့် speaker များနှင့် moderator ကို မိတ်ဆက်ပေးလိုက်ပါသည်။
ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးပေးမည့်သူများမှာ နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးအတွင်း လူ့အခွင့်အရေး၊ တန်းတူညီမျှမှုနှင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီအတွက် တက်ကြွစွာ ပါဝင်လှုပ်ရှားနေကြသည့် LGBTQ+ activist များ ဖြစ်ကြပါသည်။
Event Details
Date : 17 May 2026
Time : 5:30 PM (Start)
Location : Mae Sot
မတူကွဲပြားမှုတွေကို နားလည်မှုအဖြစ်ပြောင်းလဲနိုင်ဖို့ IDAHOBIT Panel Discussion မှာ လာရောက် နားထောင်ဆွေးနွေးကြဖို့
ဖိတ်ခေါ်လိုက်ပါသည်။
ဖြစ်တည်မှုများ၊ တန်းတူညီမျှမှု၊ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးနှင့် LGBTQ+ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းတို့၏ အသံများကို အတူတကွ ဆွေးနွေးသွားမည့် ဒီအစီအစဉ်ကို ဖော်ပြထားသော media platform များမှတဆင့် Live Broadcast အဖြစ် ကြည့်ရှုနိုင်မည်ဖြစ်ပါကြောင်း သတင်းကောင်းပါအပ်ပါသည်။
English Version
🌈 Your Seat at the IDAHOBIT Panel Awaits 🌈
— From Identities to Democracy
We are excited to introduce the speakers and moderator who will be joining the IDAHOBIT Panel Discussion taking place on May 17.
The panelists are LGBTQ+ activists who have been actively involved in the Spring Revolution, continuously advocating for human rights, equality, and democracy. Through this discussion, they will share their experiences, perspectives, and voices as members of the LGBTQ+ community navigating resistance, challenges, and hope during these critical times.
📌 Event Details
Date : 17 May 2026
Time : 5:30 PM (Start)
Location : Mae Sot
We warmly invite you to join the IDAHOBIT Panel Discussion and be part of a conversation that transforms differences into understanding.
This meaningful discussion on existence, equality, human rights, and the voices of LGBTQ+ communities will also be available as a Live Broadcast through the listed media platforms.
Beyond Shelter: Pushing to eliminate internalized phobias within the refugee shelters in Kenya
In commemoration of IDAHOBIT 2026, Entrepreneur Empowerment and Advocacy-Health (EEA-H) presents Beyond Shelter, an initiative advancing safe, inclusive, and dignified spaces for LGBTQIA+ refugees and asylum seekers in Kenya.
The event addresses internalized stigma, discrimination, and harmful phobias that continue to exist within refugee shelters and community spaces, while promoting dignity, respect, accountability, healing, and inclusion.
Through dialogue, storytelling, advocacy, and community engagement, the initiative calls on organizations, shelters, and individuals to move beyond physical protection and actively create environments where every person feels safe, valued, and affirmed.
Core Message
Addressing internalized stigma and intra-community discrimination.
Supporting Principle
Safety is incomplete without dignity, respect, and inclusion.
Campaign Question
“Are You Creating Safe Spaces?”
Hashtag
#SurvivorsCreatingSolutions
At the Heart of Democracy: Queer Lives, Civic Space & Creative Resistance
This conversation will bring together activists, creatives, and community voices to explore how LGBTQI+ persons continue to resist erasure, reclaim visibility, and build community despite shrinking civic spaces across Africa.
Militarism, Baby
Panel and open discussion on the army and the LGBTQ+ community
✊ Do those who have personally experienced rejection, labeling, or demonization also see other groups in society differently?
🪖 How does this intersect with the decision of whether to enlist?
🏠 What responsibility do I have toward society?
🔩 What is the meaning of personal choice within a larger system?
📍 International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia — May 17th
We’ll meet for an open and honest conversation with Ibtisam Maraana (Palestinian politician who worked to secure work permits for LGBTQ Palestinian asylum seekers), Ella Kedar Greenberg (refusenik), and Yosefa Mkayton (Anti-Zionist queer activist), who will share their perspectives and the processes they went through as activists for the LGBTQ+ community and their relationship with the army.