To mark today’s IDAHOT Day, I’m reblogging a post I wrote back in 2014 about IDAHO Day (the T got added a year later to acknowledge the challenges faced by the transgender community). I think the post still stacks up.
Today is IDAHO Day. For the uninitiated, this stands for International Day Against Homophobia (not to be confused with a holiday in the 43rd State of the Union). On this day in 1990, the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases. No longer were gay people officially categorised as sick and mentally disordered. IDAHO Day was conceived by the French academic and human rights activist, Louis-Georges Tin, with the aim to raise awareness about the plight of sexual minorities across the globe who live in daily fear of casual discrimination, systematic violence and state-sponsored murder. Some of us are fortunate to live in societies where attitudes have changed radically and where we are protected by a comprehensive body of law. Most are not so fortunate. This does not mean that mindless, sometimes violent, homophobia is no longer with us. Far from it. We must always…
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Perking the Pansies 
IDAHO became IDAHOT became IDAHOBiT – say what you like about us LGBTQ deviants, but we love collecting letters!
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We’ll run out soon! 😉
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We’ll have to start using the Cyrillic alphabet! Oh, then again…
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I doubt you’ll run out of words Jack, but ‘humanity’ might well run out of time – bigots are a hardy breed (and less of the discrimination against pond life, some of my best friends are Pondies)!
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You really should stop talking to tadpoles 😉
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