Starting at 9:30 a.m. The Forum will take place at the Real Intercontinental Hotel: “Trans people in El Salvador, a historical debt” and then the 9th March against Transphobia will take place. The activities are organized by the organizations that make up the Permanent Bureau by the Gender Identity Law.

El Salvador will celebrate IDAHOT with a special event coordinated by the regional Trans network RedLacTrans with the support of UNAIDS, UNDP, the Robert Carr Fund, Heartland Alliance, The Global Fund and the International HIV Alliance.

This event will launch RedLacTrans’ community base system to report and monitor the situation of Trans people in the region. The pilot phase will cover Panamá, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Argentina). More information on RedLacTrans Facebook page

The Trans organisation COMCAVIS will hold a conference on the 22nd on « persecution and impunity, a regional reality »

As part of the event games will be held in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to promote IDAHOT 2015. As well as raising awareness for the day, organisers hope that the events will help combat stereotypes about LGBTI people held in these countries.

As well as these events Didesex will hope to further combat stereotypes by sharing profiles of individuals involved through their social media in the week following May 17th. Messages and images will also be shared (in Spanish) using the hashtag #deportevshomofobia.

For more information on the games, and how you can get involved please visit the Gay Games official website, as well as the Facebook page for Didesex.

For the fifth consecutive year various organizations for sexual diversity have joined the 5th “March Against Trans, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Inter-phobia”. The event was held on Thursday May 14th  at the Plaza Mexico.

For more information please read our Spanish Page report.

Various organizations  from El Salvador organized diverse public actions for the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2014. Highlights included a street march and action at the Monumento a la Constitución (Constitution Monument) in the capital, San Salvador. Communities and government representatives also came together to discuss hate crimes against GBLTI communities, as well as the role of faith in constraining and supporting sexual and gender rights in the country.

LGBT rights march at San Salvador’s iconic Constitution Monument, for IDAHOT 2014.

Actions by Fraternidad Gay Sin Fronteras

The group Fraternidad Gay Sin Fronteras (Gay Fraternity Without Borders), organised a series of specific activities around the IDAHOT 2014. Some highlights included:

• A national consultation on government progress on hate crimes against GBLTI communities.
• An event at the LGBT Violence Prevention Center of Nicaragua, in El Salvador.
• Discussion regarding World-MCP Funds (Country Coordinating Mechanism) in relation to GBLTI communities, and the use of Bank funds.
• Event on Fair Faith, Churches and Hate Crimes in El Salvador, sponsored by USAID-ALDES.

Activists and allies come together for a street march through the capital, San Salvador.

Street March in the Capital

A street march, which was organised and attended by a variety of GBLTI and civil society organizations also took place in San Salvador, bringing together hundreds of people.

You can see the full photo gallery, here.

So far, the organisation has been working on the following activities as part of Pride Month:

– National consultation on governmental progress on Hate Crimes against LGBTI
– Invitation by CEPREV , Center for Prevention of Violence against LGBTI of Nicaragua in El Salvador .
– Hearing at World Fund- MCP (Country Coordinating Mechanism) on LGBTI and the use of bank funds.
– Faith Fair, Churches and Hate Crimes in El Salvador, sponsored by USAID – ALDES

The organisers are at the moment in the midst of finalising details for the activities to be performed on 17 May.

Fraternidad Sin Fronteras El Salvador is a non-governmental organisation based in the community that is vulnerable to the risk of HIV/AIDS and STIs in El Salvador.
Fraternidad Sin Fronteras began its efforts to prevent HIV/AIDS in 2000, initially directing at young men, and extending later to young men and women and the general population of those areas of El Salvador who had no coverage by other organisations, developing awareness and education, framed in art and cultural events.

For more information visit their website or their Facebook profile.

Report also available in Spanish.

Trans communities and allies of El Salvador attended the Forum on the gender identity law, and they also invited a number of Deputies to the event. The REDTRANSAL Collective consists of the Trans Alexandria, AsTrans, ASPIDH COMCAVIS TRANS and TRANS. The event was held on Saturday May 25, 2013 at the Hotel Intercontinental (13:00 – 18:00).

For more information on the help line initiative please see (in Spanish):

• DiarioCoLatino.com: Lanzan call center para atención a comunidad en diversidad sexual