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 …

As part of the Mesiaca LGBTI history month, the organisers celebrated IDAHOT day with a film screening and literature event. The non-governmental organisations Human Rights Institute / Inštitút ľudských práv (IĽP) and Rainbow Slovakia / Dúhové Slovensko organised a poll to award the ‘homophobe of the year’. More than 2,600 people voted in it, with this number increasing each year. More …

Report by Labris, the organization of lesbian human rights in Serbia: To mark the International day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia (IDAHOT/B), on Sunday, May 17th, a rainbow flag together with a trans rights flag were dropped from the Ombudsman’s building in Belgrade In this symbolic way, people of different sexual orientations and gender identities were shown support and attention was …

In Madagascar, the local MSM network with the support of the US Embassy in Madagascar (and in a much smaller scale support from UNAIDS) organized a get-together in their premises (US Embassy) with around 20 members of the MSM network in Madagascar (“Solidarité des MSM”). During this gathering, there was a showing of a gay-themed movie “The Matthew Shepard story” …