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ABGLT – Asociación Brasilera de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexules, Transexuales y Travestis, Brasil Aireana - Grupo por los derechos de las lesbianas, Paraguay Asical - Asociación para la Salud Integral y Ciudadanía de América Latina y el Caribe CHA - Comunidad Homosexual Argentina CIPAC - Centro de Investigación y Promoción para América Central de Derechos Humanos, Costa Rica Diverlex - Diversidad e Igualdad a Través de la Ley, Venezuela Fundación Igualdad LGBT, Bolivia GAHT - Grupo de Apoyo a Hombres Trans, Chile GALE - Alianza Global para la Educación en Temas LGBT IGLHRC - Comisión Internacional de Derechos Humanos de Gays y Lesbianas MHOL - Movimiento Homosexual de Lima, Peru MUMS - Movimiento por la Diversidad Sexual, Chile Promsex - Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos, Peru SPW – Observatório de Sexualidad y Política 
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Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, announced the appointment of Carina Vance Mafla, who is openly gay, as Ecuador’s new health minister.
The American-born activist hit the ground running, with an announcement that the health ministry will be working closely with lesbian rights group Fundacion Causana, and other civil rights groups, to shut down the remaining religious clinics which promise to ‘cure’ lesbians.
Fundacion Causana, based in Quito, Ecuador, released a statement on the success (...) 
Ecuador was the first country in 2008 to include in its constitution sexual orientation as one of the explicit forbidden grounds for discrimination.
In line with this position, the government ordered on August 16th the closure of 30 clinics which were offering to ’cure’ homosexuality. The Government’s decision was prompted by heavy advocacy from victims of the clinics so-called ’treatments’ and from sexual rights organisations.
According to syndicated news agency EFE, as many as 200 similar (...) 
With a march through the streets of Lima, from Plaza Francia to the "Eye that Cries" -memorial to the victims of violence during the civil war (1980-2000),- fifty LGBT rights activists remembered victims of hate crimes and celebrated the National Day of Action against Violence and Hate Crimes based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
To the beat of a band that played music, according to the Andean tradition for burials, the activists marchedcarrying banners with the slogan "Not to (...) 
Celebrating the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, trans activists and INADI (National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism) of Argentina presented on May 17th the Administrative Resolution Nr. 60/14 of the Secretary of Justice of Tucuman province about physical appearance.
The Resolution states that from May 17th, 2011 the civil registration offices of Tucumán can provide shifts for changing the photo of civil identity documents to trans people, (...) 
Salazar Germania
Community representatives GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) performed yesterday outside the courthouse, a sit for the International Day Against Homophobia. They rejected all forms of discrimination and sadly remembered their comrades killed by homophobic people, lesbophobic, transphobic, etc. ”No more violence, no more abuse, no more discrimination,” he said dozens of protesters, many dressed according to their sexual orientation and gender.
Gonzalo Abarca, (...) 
A photographic exhibition will tour Rio de Janeiro throughout the month of May in commemoration of this year’s IDAHO, taking the messages of 22 mothers of LGBT children to four different regions of the city.
A photographic exhibition will tour Rio de Janeiro throughout the month of May in commemoration of this year’s IDAHO, taking the messages of 22 mothers of LGBT children to four different regions of the city.
The exhibition is being organized by international organization AllOut.org in (...) 
Brazil’s LGBT federation ABGLT has announced its intention to join the international IDAHO mobilization in 2012 against homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools.
The 257 member organizations of ABGLT have been invited to develop initiatives around May 17th.
This call for action underlines the Brazilian federation’s outrage at President Dilma Rousssef’s decision last year to shelve the ’School without Homophobia’ program, which was developed by the federation and the Ministry for (...) 
The Center for Gender Identity and Subjectivities (NIGS) of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil, is once again holding a poster contest as part of the global IDAHO mobilization. The contest will focus on homophobia, lesbophobia and transphobia in schools, using art to address discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in educational institutions.
The Centre for Gender Identity and Subjectivities (NIGS) of the Federal University of Santa (...) 
Em 17 de maio de 1990, a assembleia geral da OMS aprovou a retirada do código 302.0 (Homossexualidade) da Classificação Internacional de Doenças, declarando que “a homossexualidade não constitui doença, nem distúrbio e nem perversão”. Com isso, marcou-se o fim de um ciclo de 2000 anos em que a cultura judaico-cristã encarou a homossexualidade primeiro como pecado, depois como crime e, por último, como doença.
Apesar deste reconhecimento da homossexualidade como mais uma manifestação da diversidade (...) 
Brazil has historically been very active in celebrating the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. Since the official recognition of the Day by Presidential Decree last year, activity levels soared even higher. Across the country, approximately 120 events were reported within the 27 States, generating the need to set up a national coordination taskforce to handle the information flow!
At the federal level, the Brazilian LGBT federation ABGLT, uniting 237 groups, organized on (...) 
