IDAHOTB DAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
The International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia (IDAHOT), held annually on May 17th since 2005, is today the world’s largest LGBTI solidarity action. Actions take place every year in more than 120 countries and, in 2013/2014, hundreds of millions of people were reached by messages about the Day online. At least 3,000 news articles were published around May 17 in 2014.
Providing information on how much IDAHOT events are being covered is beyond our capacities. But we try to keep track of articles on the importance and the meaning of the Day in general.
Some initial coverage in 2015 includes:
Huffington Post: Standing Shoulder-to-Shoulder With LGBTI Advocates Around the World on IDAHOT
The Advocate: Human Rights Campaign Op-ed: Why We Need an International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia
International Business Times : International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia: A history of the LGBT rights day
Patheos: Why Christians should support International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbphobia and Transphobia
President Obama’s declaration gets as expected lots of coverage:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/international-day-homophobia-transphobia-obama-vows-fighting-lgtb/story?id=31096454
http://www.voanews.com/content/international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-biphobia/2774936.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/gay-south-florida/article21226917.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/16/obama-lgbt-rights_n_7298510.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/17/white-house-chides-gambian-president-over-anti-gay/
Here is a round-up of just some of the most interesting coverage from 2014:
The Guardian
The Guardian published a widely shared infographic on May 16, in an IDAHOT 2014 collaboration with ILGA World, ILGA Europe and All Out. Data on different areas of legal rights can be browsed by country, and world regions can be compared. They published it together with this article – More than 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay is a crime – amongst various articles produced in honour of the Day.
Huffington Post
Once again, the Huffington Post published a viral round-up of events happening around the world for the IDAHOT in 2014, in their English, French, Spanish and Portuguese outlets. Photos and text were put together in a slider from 27 countries, ccompanied by an op-ed on the significance of the Day. They also published different articles on activists taking action for IDAHOT in Guyana, Australia, Cuba and Costa Rica.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post published an infographic on gender and sexual diversity, throughout history, around the world – produced by the IDAHO Committee for May 17, in collaboration with UN campaign Free & Equal, and the Burkle Center for International Research at UCLA. They also covered the day in the context of anti-LGBTI actions in Kazakhstan, and in a photo round-up on May 17
The Economist, CNN and Newsweek
The Economist, CNN and Newsweek all ran stories on actions to mark the IDAHOT 2014 in Tbilisi, Georgia, in the context of 2013’s brutal attacks on LGBTI activists, and wider issues regarding EU accession and the rising influence of the Georgian orthodox Church.