IDAHOBIT community archive
IDAHOBIT is an important reminder of where we have come from and where we are going as a community. Being a queer person born in a rainbow family, days like this are so important to me and I’m sure they are to many people in this community.
30 years ago - on May 17, 1990 - the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia & Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) celebrates LGBTIQ people globally, and raise awareness for the work still needed
We wanted to give a shout out to anyone in our community who raises awareness as a queer person or ally. If you would like to take action there are some ideas on the IDAHOBIT website here.
There are also some zoom backgrounds they have put together, if you feel like showing solidarity in the countless virtual hangouts/meetings we are all doing more of these days. Here is an example:
Discussion:
What makes you proud to be part of the LGBTIQA+ community?
What action do you take as an ally, to combat homophobia, transphobia and biphobia?
Unfortunately no - but I'm not at school 😛
@roseisnotaplant that is so cool!! Some schools are so impressive with all the programs they run.
I kinda feel like every day is IDAHOT at Reachout 😛
But we're having a morning tea 😛 And talking a lot about how important this day is online om all the places we chat to peeps too 🙂
What can you do if you see someone acting in a Homophobic or Transphobic way?
What can you do if you see someone acting in a Homophobic or Transphobic way?
This one's hard. I guess just tell them that it's not okay to discriminate based on sexuality and that it has a negative impact on LGBTQ+ people and that they can believe that if they want but that it's not necessary to advertise it in such a way that is going to hurt others.
It can be really difficult to stand up to people - especially when the person is a friend or anyone that you have to get along with for a prolonged amount of time. I guess the best way is by trying to draw their attention to the fact that saying things like that are hurtful to other people - focusing on other people tends to go down better than focusing on the person who has said it in my experience.
It can also be really helpful to debrief with someone after the experience as well as it can be very upsetting.
Well, I generally do... nothing. I'm possibly the least confrontational person ever. I wish I said something, maybe I could work towards it 🙂 Instead I just sort of counteract homo/trans/biphobia by being super positive about LGBT+ stuff. Does that count?
@roseisnotaplantdefinitely counts!! 🙂 I can relate as I am unfortunately not very assertive and am often too stunned to process what has just happened
Next up!
Do you think we need more events like this that celebrate diversity in our communities?
I think it would be good to be like that eventually but maybe it needs some large scale events to give it a kickstarter?
Good point @roseisnotaplant
Maybe we're up to the stage where we could have an IDAHOT month, kinda like Dry July? I want people to get into the habit of being inclusive!
I feel like sometimes people can get bored of things easily and having a month would mean that people could start losing interest midway through?
Unless it's just me because at times I do have the attention span of a gnat. 😛
Hmm maybe we could have a IDAHOT challenge? Where you do a list of challenges to help change people's pereceptions of Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia over 30 days, and tell people about it?
And Day 1 is something that would be a really cool activity to do that everyone could kinda do. And it could be done by you guys in public so that others are more inclined to do it in public as well!
Sweet we just have to plan 28 more days! 🙂
But for now, i need some zzzz 🙂
Thank you all so much for joining this chat 🙂 It was a quiet night, but a super important discussion, and i reckon we tackled it really well. See you all online soon 🙂
