May 17th is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
What is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Biphobia?
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Biphobia is observed on May 17th and aims to co-ordinate international international events that raise awareness of LGBT rights and stimulate interest in LGBT rights work worldwide.
The date was chosen to commemorate the removal of homosexuality on the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1990.
In 2009, Transphobia was aded to the name of the campaign, and activities that year focused on Transphobia an on the eve of May 17th 2009, France became the first country in the world to officially remove transgender issues from its list of mental illnesses.
Biphobia was added to the campaign in 2015. This is a lot later than the main goals are to raise awareness of violence, discrimination, and repression of LGBT communities worldwide. As of 2013, 32 of the 76 countries in the world where same-sex relationships are criminalised, do still mark May 17th as a day for this event.
Places such as Cuba. have huge street parades, and have done for the past 3 years. In Chile, in 2013, 50,000 people took to the streets to mark May 17th. Arts and culture events are also common, Bangladeshi activists organised the music festival "Love Music Hate Homophobia", in 2013. Albanian LGBT activists have, in 2012 and 2013 been organising an annual bike ride for May 17th through the streets of the capital Tirana.
Since the day was officially recognised, many countries have begun to officially recognise it. Canada, Montreal, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, the UK, Mexico, Costa Rica - to name a few, have joined the recognition.
However, not all impacts have been positive because as of 2019, 69 countries criminalise same-sex relationships. In 26 countries, transgender individuals are subject to punishment, and are at risk of violence, meaning they can not be themselves freely.
That is why IDAHOBIT, as the day is also known, is used as a platform for organising initiates and advance the fight for the rights of everyone who is part of the LGBT+ communities in many countries including those that have criminalised it.
There should be no problems with simply being who you are and until there isn't people in these communities won't stop fighting in order to get their rights.
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