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SUMMARY:IDAHOBIT 2025 – Window Display Competition Entry Macedon Ranges
DESCRIPTION:We’re proud to take part in Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health’s IDAHOBIT Window Display Competition\, standing in solidarity with LGBTQIA+ communities across the Macedon Ranges and beyond. \nIDAHOBIT—the International Day Against Homophobia\, Biphobia\, Intersex Discrimination and Transphobia—is held every year on May 17. It’s a day to raise awareness\, spark conversations\, and take a stand against discrimination in all its forms. Now also known as the Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination\, it affirms the importance of inclusion for lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, intersex\, queer\, asexual and other diverse identities. \nAt HMS Community\, we’re committed to:\n🟣 Welcoming people of all genders\, sexual orientations\, backgrounds\, and abilities.\n🟣 Partnering with LGBTI+ organisations to ensure respectful and informed support.\n🟣 Promoting inclusive care through policy\, practice\, and lived experience—including within our leadership. \nOur display is a public commitment to equity\, inclusion\, and dignity for all. \nThanks to Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health for creating space to celebrate visibility and allyship in our region.
URL:https://may17.org/event/idahobit-2025-window-display-competition-entry-macedon-ranges/
LOCATION:HMS Community\, 2/18\, Gisborne\, VIC\, 3071\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Awareness activity,Art or creative expression
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Jamaica:20250513T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Jamaica:20250530T170000
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CREATED:20250519T053049Z
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SUMMARY:Equality Jamaica - IDAHOT 2025 Essay Competition
DESCRIPTION:The IDAHOT 2025 Essay Competition is an event organized by Equality for All\, inviting Jamaicans over 18 to submit essays addressing barriers to inclusion in education and the workplace for LGBTQ+ individuals. The competition is open to all Jamaicans aged 18 and above\, with essays required to be between 1\,500-2\,000 words\, informed by the 2023 Social and Institutional Barriers to Inclusion Research by IDEA Research Centre. The deadline for submissions is Friday\, May 30\, 2025\, at 5 pm\, with prizes ranging from $20\,000 to $50\,000 for the top three entries.
URL:https://may17.org/event/2025-equality-jamaica-idahot-2025-essay-competition/
LOCATION:Jamaica\, Kingston\, Jamaica
CATEGORIES:Art or creative expression
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250531T170000
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SUMMARY:Info campaign: We already know each other
DESCRIPTION:Informational campaign in Ukraine. “We Already Know Each Other” is a campaign about the LGBT+ people who are already part of our lives — friends\, neighbors\, colleagues. It explains how to support them in everyday situations: at work\, in school\, or during casual conversations. The campaign sheds light on what coming out means and why not everyone can do it safely. It helps recognize everyday homophobia\, understand how jokes can hurt\, and why equality needs public support\, not just private acceptance. By fostering empathy and awareness\, the campaign encourages everyone to be active allies and create a more inclusive and respectful society.
URL:https://may17.org/event/2025-info-campaign-we-already-know-each-other/
LOCATION:Ukraine\, Ukraine
CATEGORIES:Media or campaign
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SUMMARY:Communion
DESCRIPTION:Communion or Queer Communion is a project dedicated to remembering and celebrating the lives of marginalised queer people who were murdered for living as themselves. The project is a rejection of the attempts to dismiss\, defile or simply erase LGBTQIA+ people. It started from a need to process on a personal level the emotional impact of news reports of hate crime murders that became increasingly frequent during the Covid pandemic. It has continued in part because of the engagement of those in the community who have reacted positively and encouraged me to continue. \nI believe that hate crime and the manner in which authority and society respond to it act to create an environment of fear\, as well as the sense that LGBTQIA+ lives are disposable and shameful. In spite of this queer people continue to live openly in defiance of attempts to control or police them into compliance. The works are meant to celebrate the simultaneously incandescent and ordinary lives that have been lost\, as well as mourning\, they also are a refusal of the tendency to place the inflicted pain\, death and violence at the centre of how we remember them.  \nThe project is also about visibility\, asking us who is deserving of commemoration and who we are content to erase\, sweep under the carpet. Many of these were create using photographs that were blurry or overly cropped\, and in some sense the accessibilty of photographs has dictated the choice of portraits.  \nThe project consists of a series of portraits that evoke a sense of the sacred through references to spiritual iconography to create spaces for contemplation and stillness. There are currently three forms of the project that are ongoing.  \nAn installation consisting of a 14 sided metal framework that holds 13 portraits that are hand painted on cast acrylic sheeting and act in a similar way to stained glass windows\, was first exhibited at the Spier Light Art Festival in 2021\, and later at the Kopano gathering.  This installation included portaits of Nonhlanhla Kunene; Sphamandla Khoza; Motshidi Pascalina (Pasca); Kirvan Fortuin; Sam Mbatha; Buhle Poswa; Lindokuhle Mapu; Nare Mphela; Bonang Gaelae; Lonwabo Jack; Phelokazi Mqathana; Lindokuhle Cele; Liyabona Mabishi. \nA series of watercolour paintings on paper that aim to act as a commemorative archive. The watercolour paintings allow for a more responsive archive and will continue to evolve and grow in response to the environment as much as is possible.
URL:https://may17.org/event/2025-communion/
LOCATION:Seth Deacon Art Studios\, 66 Albert Road\, Woodstock\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 7925\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Community gathering,Awareness activity,Art or creative expression
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Guayaquil:20250519T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Guayaquil:20250519T170000
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SUMMARY:Socialización de la investigación “Ciudadanía y Cultura”
DESCRIPTION:Frente a la tortura\, alzamos la voz con datos\, memoria y acción colectiva. \nEn el marco del Día Internacional contra la Homofobia\, Lesbofobia\, Transfobia y Bifobia (IDAHOBIT)\, Fundación Mujer & Mujer y el Ministerio de la Mujer y Derechos Humanos\, con el apoyo de Outright International\, les invitan al evento de socialización de la investigación “Ciudadanía y Cultura: Prácticas de conversión sexual\, su relación con la violencia basada en género\, formas de tortura y vulneración de derechos humanos en Ecuador.” \nEste espacio tiene como objetivo visibilizar las prácticas de conversión sexual que siguen ocurriendo en Ecuador\, así como su relación con la violencia basada en género\, las formas de tortura y la vulneración de los derechos humanos de personas LGBTIQ+. \nLa jornada será también una oportunidad para compartir hallazgos clave\, construir memoria colectiva y reafirmar el compromiso de las instituciones\, organizaciones y activismos para erradicar estas prácticas\, desde una mirada de derechos\, interseccional y con justicia. \n📅 Lunes 19 de mayo de 2025\n🕓 15h00 a 17h00 (hora Ecuador)\n📍 Gobernación del Guayas – Salón Simón Bolívar \nConfirmación de asistencia: 0939141902
URL:https://may17.org/event/2025-socializacion-de-la-investigacion/
LOCATION:Gobernación del Guayas\, Malecón y Aguirre\, Guayaquil\, Guayas\, 090307\, Ecuador
CATEGORIES:Awareness activity
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