IDAHOT 2013 Happening Friday

IDAHOT stands for the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, which is an international event created in 2004 to draw the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movements, the public and the media to this issue.  Transphobia was officially added to the campaign in 2009

It is not one centralized campaign under UN auspices, but coordinated by a Paris based IDAHOT committee founded and headed by French academic Louis-Georges Tin.   It is designed to be a day in which everyone can use it as a way to take action against the twin scourges of homophobia and transphobia.

As of this writing, biphobia has not been officially added to the campaign. 

The May 17 date was chosen by the IDAHOT creators to commemorate the World Health Organization’s 1990 decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder.    It something we transpeople around the world are seeking to replicate with the WHO in terms of getting GID declassified with this upcoming revision of the ICD-11 manual in 2015.

The IDAHOT is celebated in more than 100 countries and has gained official recognition in the European Union, Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Mexico, and Costa Rica.

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