IDAHOTB DAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

SETA young people organized an IDAHOT social media campaign, focussing on discrimination of LGBT Youth in sports #urheilinhomona . The campaign had already found more than 13 000 people before May 17. Additionally, SETA member organizations and the Rainbow Association Malchus organized an event in Tampere, which included a coffee occasion, performances, speeches and a memorial procession. SETA and the Finnish section of Amnesty International …

Pristina saw a variety of IDAHOT celebrations: Find more pictures here: Pristina celebrated the International day against homo-, trans- and biphobia (IDAHOT) on Sunday, 17th of May. This important event “Walk and Dance against Homophobia” organized by three NGO’s, CEL, CSGD and QESh, gathered together individuals, organizations and embassies to march for the rights of the LGBTI-community. The participants enjoyed …

The Estonian LGBT Association dedicated their IDAHOT celebration to the Estonian LGBT+ to young people. Pictures of young 13 showed what they want to say to the Estonian society. Estonian LGBT Association encourage young people to share the images.

The first ‪IDAHOT‬ Football match was organised by the Fare member New Israel Fund. The event kicked-off with the opening speech of Gil Ohovski, a representative of the pride community and director of the Open House Sarah K. Meier, a Jerusalem-based centre for the LGBT community, on the importance of the initiative to raise awareness of homophobia and to promote LGBT rights. …

Cover Image: Advocates for Youth Traditionally, many LGBTQI youth organisations and young activists participate in organising IDAHOT celebrations. Even more so this year, as “LGBTQI Youth” had been chosen to be the global focus issue for mobilisation. It can’t be doubted that LGBTQI young people are at higher risk of bullying, of exclusion, of being kicked out by their families and of …