IDAHOTB DAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

Excerpts From the Namibian OUTRIGHT Namibia opened the first outreach health centre for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community (LGBTI) in Windhoek last week. This coincided with the celebration of the international day against homophobia, transgender and biphobia held annually on 17 May to bring attention to the discrimination and violence against the LGBTI community. OutRight Namibia director …

From GayStarNews Fiji became the first country in the Pacific to host a Pride parade. | Photo: Rainbow Pride Foundation 4 LGBTQ Rights and Equality in Fiji 21 May 2018 Shannon Power Fiji has just made history as the first country in the Pacific to host a LGBTI Pride parade. The Pride March coincided with this year’s International Day Against …

LGBT community in Bhutan observes IDAHOT From Kuenseonline.com  Penjor, the 44-year-old transgender has been selling thukpa (rice porridge) on the streets of Thimphu to support her family. She faces discrimination of kinds and kinds every day. She doesn’t care. Members of Rainbow Bhutan, an LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community in Bhutan, had their own unique and touching stories to …

From Newsday ‘Homophobia, biphobia, transphobia affect us all’ Supporters of the LBGTI movement in a recent protest outside of the Parliament. IT has been 28 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 2004, the International Day against Homophobia was first observed. That morphed into the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT). …

There are far too many events worldwide for us to be able to report on them all. We’re listing in our country pages the events which were directly brought to our attention. We also bring on our home page articles about some events which give an overview of the diversity, the creativity, the joys and sometimes the pains of IDAHOTB …