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Country page 2024 – Albania

Country pages showcase events that have been directly registered on our site or discovered through online searches. For more information about the IDAHOBIT campaign, please visit our social media channels. See full calendar of activities. Streha's Charity Gala Location: Hotel...

Idahobit May 8, 2024

IDAHOBIT 2024

Country page 2023 – Albania

Country pages feature announcements of events that were directly registered on our site. More information on what is happening for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia can be found on our social media. TIRANA PRIDE 2023 - HAPE...

Idahobit May 11, 2023

IDAHOBIT 2023

Note on reporting May 17 events

Every year until 2020 we used to feature on Country Pages, which can be accessed via the interactive world map, as much information on May 17 events as we could find. We are currently unfortunately not in a capacity to...

joel September 8, 2021

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Bosnia and Herzegovina 2021 Country Page

Note on event listing: Due to limited capacity, we are not able to provide a comprehensive overview of the hundreds of events that will take place worldwide. We list on this site the information that was directly sent to us...

joel May 4, 2021

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Albania Country Page 2019

10th #FestivalofDiversity for LGBTI rights and our 4th #TiranaPRIDE! The struggle for equality goes on! by Aleanca LGBT and Albanian Youth Network

joel May 18, 2019

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Award Winning Exhibition To Come To Tirana for May 17

Between 15 and 19 of May, a new exhibition is coming to Tirana. Entitled ‘Culture of Humiliation’ and created by artist Antonij Karadzoski, it addresses issues surrounding human rights, LGBTIQ+ rights, and gender equality. Whilst growing up in Macedonia, Karadzoski...

joel May 4, 2019

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Albania – IDAHOTB 2018 Country Page

This year, LGBTI organizations with the support of partner organizations and international institutions will cover a wide range of issues with their activities. The activities below will take place during 11th – 25th of May and they do not only...

Vicky May 7, 2018

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IDAHOT Bike (P)Ride in Albania: We can not hide anymore

More than 200 LGBTI community members, civil society activists from Albania and the region and supporters of the cause, rode today for LGBTI rights in Albania. After many queries whether the opposition protest would stop the ride, it did not...

IDAHO May 12, 2017

IDAHOT 2017 country page: Albania

Aleanca LGBT: Tirana Gay (P)Ride 6; May 13 from 11 a.m. @ Palace of Congress, Tirana

IDAHO May 4, 2017

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IDAHOT Report 2016: Albania

Activists this year brought a full calendar of events to Albania, making Tirana and the country once again an amazing centre of LGBT activism. The Tirana Gay (p)Ride was held again for the 5th consecutive year. Hundreds of campaigners and...

IDAHO May 27, 2016

IDAHOT Reports 2016

Looking ahead: IDAHOT 2016 in Albania

In Tirana local activists will once again hold the Tirana Gay (p)Ride event for the 5th year running. The event invited the LGBT community and allies to come together for a bicycle-powered pride event taking place across the city. The...

IDAHO May 9, 2016

NEWS & EVENTS

Hundreds at the 4th LGBTI Pride Event in Tirana for IDAHOT

Hundreds of activists participated today at the 4th Pride event (the first took place in 2012) riding with bicycles at the Boulevard of Martyrs and Boulevard “King Zog I”. They protested for the domestic violence which LGBTI people are facing every...

Vicky May 17, 2015

IDAHOT Events 2015: Albania

For the first time in Albania, 9 young human rights activists, LGBT and non-LGBT have come together and agreed to appear on a poster which asks the simple yet important question: "How long do you have for your rights?". [box...

IDAHO May 11, 2015

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Cycle For Love: Tirana's Bike (P) Ride

Want to spread your message of love and harmony through the streets for May 17, and get fit (and have fun) doing it? A bike ride could be a great way to do it ! In Albania, LGBT community groups...

IDAHO July 22, 2014

IDEAS FOR ACTION

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...

IDAHO June 4, 2014

Albania IDAHO Report 2013

In the capital Tirana a whole host of events marked the year’s commemorations. Activists hosted a Second Festival of Diversity Against Homophobia on May 17. The 2nd annual IDAHO ‘Gay Bike (P) Ride’ took off successfully through the streets of...

IDAHO June 17, 2013

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Albanian activists bike against homophobia and transphobia

Gay Ride Tirana - Pedalim kunder Homofobise (17 May 2013) Dozens of LGBT activists biked on May 17th in the main Boulevard of Tirana with bicycles from Ecovolis, wearing T-shirts that read “Gay (P) Ride Against Homophobia”. This is the...

IDAHO May 17, 2013

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AN INTERVIEW WITH ALBANIAN LGBT ACTIVIST, KRISTI PINDERI

As May 17, 2013 approaches, we spoke with Kristi Pinderi – activist, archeologist, historian and all round LGBT policy expert – about the political context for LGBT rights in contemporary Albania, and the new project he’s involved in: championing...

IDAHO May 17, 2013

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Albania IDAHO Report 2012

Activists in Albania had to battle heavy rain and dodge explosives hurled at them by youths on their “Ride against Homophobia” along the main boulevard of the capital Tirana as part of the country’s IDAHO 2012 celebrations. It was the first event...

IDAHO June 17, 2012

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