IDAHOBIT

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia & Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) celebrates LGBTQIA+ people globally and raises awareness for the work still needed to combat discrimination.

HISTORY TIME: On May 17, 1990, the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization approved the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD 10), which no longer listed homosexuality as a diagnosis!  

As such, May 17th was chosen in 2004 as the date for IDAHOBIT.

Some less fun facts are that 75% of queer youth experience some form of discrimination, while 61% experience verbal abuse and 19% experience physical abuse. This discrimination has a severe impact on the wellbeing of rainbow people, with 24.4% of lesbian, gay and bisexual people and 36.2% of trans people experiencing depression. This is compared to the rates in the general population at approximately 6.8%.  

IDAHOBIT aims to help reduce these statistics by making the lives of queer people safer and happier.