IDAHOBIT 2021

Join us today and show your support for your family, friends and colleagues who are part of the LGBTQ+ community for The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) 2021.

This year’s theme is Together: Resisting, Supporting, Healing!

The LGBTQ+ community frequently face social injustice and discrimination which has been brought into focus by the tragic events of the last two months. Below are 4 individuals who have sadly been the product of the intolerance of others.

In 2020 an estimated 350 transgender people were murdered globally, with the youngest being just 15.

The violence and horror of these deaths are catalogued by a unique project and the list can be found here

The heart-breaking news doesn’t just stop there.

  • Thomson Reuters reported that hate crimes against LGBT+ people in Germany have risen by 36%

  • The BBC reported that hate crimes against LGBTQ+ people in the UK have tripled Poland has created “LGBT-free zone”

Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20-year-old, gay man

Beheaded by his family

Jaida Peterson, a 29-year-old transgender woman

Murdered in Charlotte, N.C. In an injustice compounding this tragedy, Jaida was misnamed and misgendered in some media and police reports.

Normunds Kindzulis, a 29-year-old, gay man

Burnt alive by his neighbour

Remy Fennell, transgender woman

Murdered in Charlotte, N.C

There are still many countries in the world where identifying as LGBTQ+ is a criminal offence! Here are some facts;

  • 71 countries criminalise private, consensual, same-sex sexual activity. The majority of these countries explicitly criminalise sex between men via ‘sodomy’, ‘buggery’ and ‘unnatural offences’ laws.
  • 43 countries criminalise private, consensual sexual activity between women using laws against ‘lesbianism’, ‘sexual relations with a person of the same sex’ and ‘gross indecency’. Even in countries that do not explicitly criminalise women, lesbians and bisexual women have been subjected to arrest or threat of arrest.
  • 11 countries where the death penalty is imposed or at least a possibility for private, consensual same-sex sexual activity. At least 6 of these implement the death penalty.
  • 15 countries criminalise the gender identity and/or expression of transgender people, using so-called ‘cross-dressing’, ‘impersonation’ and ‘disguise’ laws. In many more countries, transgender people are targeted by a range of laws that criminalise same-sex activity and vagrancy, hooliganism and public order offences.

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