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 Education, and was to be rolled out in all Brazilian schools, following an agreement signed by former President Lula.
Only a few weeks after her election, President Roussef decided to suspend the program following pressure from religious groups, outraging the LGBT community and their progressive allies.
This year’s mobilization across the country will mainly focus on getting the program back on track. 39 Pride marches have already chosen this focus as their motto.
Brazilian organizations are expected to massively take action on IDAHO too, in the hope that the international mobilization will contribute to reverting the presidential decision.
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 (...) 
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 (...) 
A vigil at the Esplanade of the Ministries, in Brasília, celebrated last May 17th the International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia and Transphobia.
Giant photos projected against one of the National Library walls reminded the urgent necessity to approve the bill that makes homophobia a crime similar to racism.
The issue for this year’s campaign was "Cures That Kill". According to the campaign coordinator in Latin America, Jandira Queiroz, the therapies that propose the cures to (...) 
