Georgia Country Page 2019

TBILISI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A thousand colored stickers with messages against discrimination were posted across the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Friday to highlight LGBT+ people’s struggle for acceptance in the conservative former Soviet republic.  The initiative coincided with a global day against homophobia that local LGBT+ groups said they could not mark with […]

Italy Country Page 2019

17 maggio: da Palermo a Torino eventi contro l’omotransfobia. A Roma Spadafora presenterà i dati dell’indagine Ipsos sulle persone Lgbt Ricorrerà domani la 12° Giornata internazionale contro l’omo-trans-bifobia (Idahot), ufficialmente istituita dal Parlamento Europeo con risoluzione del 26 aprile 2007. La data fu scelta per commemorare una storica decisione storica. Il 17 maggio 1990, infatti, l’Organizzazione […]

Moldova Pride March on IDAHOTB week end protected by tear gas

Fom Pinknews.co.uk Police in Moldova fired tear gas at anti-LGBT protesters to keep them away from a Pride march. LGBT activists feared a repeat of violent scenes at the annual Moldova Pride solidarity march, which took place in the country’s capital Chisinau on May 19. Last year’s march was marred by clashes between anti-LGBT Orthodox Christian protesters […]

French minister comes out as gay on IDAHOTB to combat homophobia

From The Telegraph Henry Samuel, paris France’s digital minister Mounir Mahjoubi has come out as gay on the International Day Against Homophobia, saying it was important to speak out as a public figure himself subjected to prejudice in the past. Mr Mahjoubi, 34, a rising star in President Emmanuel Macron‘s centrist government, tweeted late on Thursday […]

India – IDAHOTB 2018 Country Page

There are far too many events worldwide for us to be able to report on them all. We’re listing in our pages the events which were directly registered on our site   The Humsafar Trust (HST) with support from Save the Children had collaborated with 6 regional partners to implement IDAHOT activities. Trivandrum The IDAHOT […]

Corporates gear up for IDAHOTB 2018

Corporations are more and more aware of the challenges and opportunities of Equality at the workplace. May 17th is being increasingly invested by companies and their LGBT networks as a day of mobilisation, action and reflection. At European level, the Work Place Pride network will organise a global conference in Amsterdam that will focus on the […]

Companies mark IDAHOTB 2018 with actions and messages

  Corporations are more and more aware of the challenges and opportunities of Equality at the workplace. May 17th is being increasingly invested by companies and their LGBT networks as a day of mobilisation, action and reflection. At European level, the Work Place Pride network  organised a global conference in Amsterdam that focused on the global […]

Beirut PRIDE: an analysis from the inside

Lebanon’s 2017 Pride Week: The LGBT Community persists and prevails, Despite threats and conspiracy between extremist groups and government officials   Synopsis Lebanon’s Pride Week commemorating IDAHOT 2017 marks 13 years of LGBT activism in Lebanon with a clash between the extremist conservative religious establishment and the LGBT movement, its allies among civil rights organizations […]

A happy family shares love

When I was a child in France it pained me to think that my attraction to men meant I would have a lonely life. I never imagined that one day I would be a single father of twin boys in New York. The journey was strange and unexpected. But I found family everywhere along the […]

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