IDAHOTB DAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

Together with UN Free and Equal and with special thanks to researchers at Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA, we created an infographic to debunk the myth that homosexuality is a Western import.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has just released a message in support of May 17, 2014. Read his statement “Equality Begins With You” here.

This year, the United Nations agencies have been particularly active in marking the Day. Read more about the way the UN marked the Day here.

Activists in Tbilisi, Georgia made the invisible, visible on Sunday, May 18, 2014, when they left more than 100 shoes in Pushkini Square, Tbilisi – where yesterday’s IDAHOT protest had had to be called off, for security reasons.

US President, Barack Obama, releases an official statement in honour of the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia 2014.