International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination - Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

"The path to be taken against discrimination is still long," said the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, on the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. "Thirty-five years ago the Oms decided to remove homosexuality from the list of mental diseases, ending a senseless classification and marking the beginning of a cultural and social change on the road to equal dignity of citizens." Mattarella con…

On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organization (WHO) took a historic step by removing homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), marking the official end of the pathologization of sexual orientations. This achievement was the result of decades of mobilization by social movements, especially in the United States, where the resistance before and after the Stonewall Riots (1969) paved the way for the depathologization of…

València: Lambda concentrates to commemorate that 35 years ago since homosexuality ceased to be considered a disease

DAY AGAINST HOMO/TRANSFOBIA: CHILE IN RETROCESS. Movilh announces protests for the entire electoral period. Today the International Day against Homo/Transphobia is commemorated in the world, a date that recalls when the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality from its list of diseases. It also reminds us of the hard struggle that [...] The post Declaration Movilh: Announces protests for the entire electoral period appeared first on…

LGBTIphobias – rejection, contempt, violence against LGBTQIA+ people – remain a ubiquitous, multifaceted and deeply rooted phenomenon in our societies. They manifest themselves through stereotypes, ridicule, discrimination, psychological, physical, sexual assaults, and sometimes even murders. Beyond interpersonal relationships, they are part of a structuring social system: cis-heteronormativity, which establishes heterosexuality and the fact of …

International Day of Fight against LGBTfobia is celebrated this Saturday