WASHINGTON –– Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, released a video celebrating the eleventh-annual International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOT). This year’s IDAHOT theme is “youth,” celebrating LGBT youth and their contributions to their communities. In the video, HRC’s youth ambassadors…
The Nashville Grizzlies rugby team (http://www.grizzliesrugby.org) will host the Mark Kendall Bingham Memorial Tournament, also known as the Bingham Cup, the world championship of gay and inclusive rugby teams, in May 2016. The biennial tournament is the largest men’s rugby union tournament on the international rugby calendar outside of the World Cup. In May 2016,…
One in four gay men said they had received verbal threats of harm or had been bullied while participating in sports and around 80 percent of people said they had witnessed such discrimination, according to a survey of 9,500 respondents. The findings were contained in ‘Out on the Fields’, released this week, which officials said…
May 10, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe) released its 2015 Rainbow Map, an annual review of the human rights situation of LGBT people in Europe and brand new Rainbow Europe web module. Launched in Montenegro, at the 2015 European International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT) Forum, the Rainbow…
