IDAHOTB DAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

In Bulgaria, May 17 events will focus on promoting an LGBTI national equality plan and this year’s theme of Freedom of Expression will definitely be an area of highlight in the country.

In Burundi, LGBT groups will be presenting their annual report on the state of Homophobia in the country’s only LGBT center in the capital city of Bujumbura. Community meetings will be held in rural towns, where public events are unthinkable of, in the context of exploding homophobia in the region. For security reasons, details of activities and organisers cannot be …

Activists will organise meetings with religious and political leaders to discuss homosexuality. An exhibition on human rights violations against LGBT people will be displayed. A special training session on media and legal affairs will be held for Lesbians, in order to empower them more within the LGBT community. The Day will close with a long awaited community evening, which will gather over …

Coordinated by Jerusalem Open House, there are two events planned on the day prior to IDAHO that will be linked to freedom of speech.

The campaign ‘Everyone is Different’, will start on May 11 and will include a series of events until its final day on May 17. In Sudan there will be celebrations of IDAHOT on May 17 with a day of activities.