Macedonia IDAHO Report 2013

Activities for the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia 2013 were reported in seven different cities in Macedonia. The key theme for the year was ‘Say No to homophobia’.

Organisers advised before the event, ‘Association of lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender persons “LGBT UNITED” (“ЛГБТ Јунајтед” / “LGBT Junajted”) Macedonia again this year will celebrate IDAHO day 2013. Our activities already started in Gostivar. our members, activists put up posters with a message – Say No to homophobia, the posters were written in 4 languages (Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish and English). LGBT United is planning similar activities across Macedonia in the cityes of Skopje, Tetovo, Kumanovo, Shtip, Ohrid, Bitola, Kicevo. LGBT United will have direct contact with citizens through sharing flyers and promotional material where will be explained what is IDAHO and how you can prevent the homophobia and transphobia.
LGBT United Macedonia is an organization that has members of all nationalities living in Macedonia, and organization efforts that all activities are available throughout Macedonia, available in 4 languages. during activities we will try at all to explain what it is homophobia and transphobia and how to protect against hate speech.’

For more information please log onto: www.lgbtmacedonia.org