IDAHOTB DAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

Today (September 23) is Bi Visibility Day also known as International Celebrate Bisexuality Day. Bi Visibility Day is designed to highlight biphobia in society as well as within LGBTI and other social movement spaces, and to help people make contact with bisexual communities in different countries. Photo: Wikipedia (Author: Peter Salanki) The Day has been celebrated since 1999 when a …

Asociación ALFIL from Quito, Ecuador, within the framework of the planned activities for the week of May 17 is organising a screening of short films, the signing of a manifesto which will be sent to the Presidency of Ecuador and artistic presentations from the community.

Republication for March 31, 2014. Originally published on March 31, 2013. (Tamara Adrian is now the Chair of the IDAHOT Committee’s Board of Trustees) ! In honour of International Day of Transgender Visibility we spoke with Tamara Adrian – Venezuelan lawyer, law professor, human rights activist and all round international trans rights activist. She spoke about transgender visibility in international arenas, …

“True militancy in Brazil, has nothing to do with NGOs. I was saying this to a friend of mine that works at a local LGBT referral centre. Militancy in Brazil you do like João Nery did it, like Benjamin is doing it, like I’m doing it, without being connected to an NGO or anything. It’s going there, opening people’s minds …

This new protest tactic, first coming out of Ukraine in December 2013, could be a great way for you to hold a mirror up to power, literally. In the final weeks of 2013, Ukrainian police started violently