On the evening of IDAHOT activists made the uncompromising statement of Stonewall “Some people are gay, get over it” available in Yerevan streets. And there were also more activities on and around IDAHOT… PINK Armenia initiated personal letters to all of the MPs, some of the relevant ministries, prime minister of the country and the president. PINK called the state officials …

For the first time in Albania, 9 young human rights activists, LGBT and non-LGBT have come together and agreed to appear on a poster which asks the simple yet important question: “How long do you have for your rights?”. The campaign has been launched by PINK Embassy Albania to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. They took inspiration, …

South Korea has marked IDAHOT with an online campaign and celebrated its biggest IDAHOT event so far with a cultural event in Seoul. The festivities in South Korea, which have been organised by the Rainbow Action Against Sexual-Minority Discrimination, had the title ‘STOP HATRED and OPEN the SQUARE’. As part of the programme the organisers have launched a face campaign on the …

The Sarajevo Open Centre in Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) has again prepared a vast programme in celebration of IDAHOT 2015 and achieved great visibility of the day. Their events included an activity to take over public space. In total, the Sarajevo Open Centre organized 11 events, and at least one of them is predicted to have a historical significance and impact …

Report from Tbilissi TBILISI, DFWatch–When groups in Tbilisi wanted to mark the international day against homophobia May 17, they had to organize it in tightly-controlled secrecy and gather in silence. Time and location was secret, and everyone who showed up, including journalists, had to register beforehand and go through a vetting process, where journalists for media that have espoused homophobic …