Sri Lanka saw celebrations for IDAHOT on three occasions, with a employee awareness action, a film screening and a forum discussion with EU Delegates. On May 15th the Standard Chartered Bank together with EQUAL GROUND planned an IDAHOT awareness action amongst its employees at their head office in Colombo.  IDAHOT videos will be looped and screened at their canteen from 11am …

In Nicosia, Cyprus, activists took the celebrations of IDAHOT to the streets with a #NAMELESS event. The event started with a street meeting to celebrated all kinds of identities together. The meeting point was Kugulu Park on May 16th at 4pm where there was a Walk against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, a rainbow parade followed by a street gathering with street games. You can follow the event on …

In Prague, the Czech AIDS Help Society organised a ‘Run against homophobia and AIDS Candlelight Day support’ on May 16 in commemoration of IDAHOT on Vitkov hill. The run was not competitive and the distance was 5 km. Over 40 runners participated, among them National AIDS manager, employees from U.S. embassy and finalists of Mr. Gay competition. The run had been organised for …

For IDAHOT 2015 Lambda Mozambique, the Association for sexual Minorities, has prepared a Facebook contest in which they call upon individuals to show their support for the LGBT community. The Facebook contest asked people to send a supportive message with #‎diferentesmasiguais‬ about respect, diversity, equality, inclusion and/or pride. The messages be posted on their Facebook page with the most LIKEs by May 16th …

In Kobe, members of the LGBTQI community went to the streets with an info booth to tell people about IDAHOT and raise awareness of LGBTQI issues. This has been the fifth time IDAHOT was celebrated in the city. You can follow IDAHOT Kobe on Twitter. A special website has been set up to collate information on IDAHOT actions in Japan. …