We don’t think so. While it is important to envisage Discrimination as a general phenomenon, it is necessary to fight it also in its specific forms – and homophobia is one of these forms. Without which, discussion and action would lead into abstraction, indifference, if not sheer confusion.
This is, by the way, one of the main interests of the International Women’s Day, which emphasizes in a specific way the inequality between the sexes. Similarly, the International Day against homophobia and transphobia will emphasize in a specific way the inequality among sexualities.
However, the fight against homophobia necessarily leads to the affirmation of sexual rights in general, whether it’s a question of sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. This is why the fight against homophobia reinforces the fight against sexism; it is not a coincidence that the most sexist individuals are often also the most homophobic. But the fight against homophobia also reinforces efforts against AIDS and against all sexually transmitted diseases as sexual autonomy can hardly exist without the basic access to information and treatment and also because the stigma, invisibility and lack of self esteem that these generate, exposes the LGBT to greater infection risks while also reducing access to treatment.
Finally, the fight against homophobia also leads to the assertion of human rights in general. LGBT associations are very often engaged in issues beyond the scope of sexuality, and they therefore find themselves working in unison with numerous other social movements with which they of course find solidarity. Similarly, all major Human Rights Defense organisations have incorportated LGBT issues as full part of their mandate.
Given these conditions, the International Day against homophobia and transphobia will favor the strengthening of ties between LGBT associations and human rights associations.
We also want to pay a special attention to the links with the global sexual rights movement. There is a lot of similarity in the debates around other issues on the right to use your body freely, like the issues of abortion, marital rape, forced pregnancies, etc…
We have to think of these issues as interconnected.
New countries joining International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia celebrations for the first time, including countries among those which keep 1,5 BILLION people under laws that criminalize same sex relationships.
News getting in about global mobilization worldwide.
New countries joining International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia celebrations for the first time, including countries among those which keep 1,5 BILLION people under laws that criminalize same sex (...) 
The main national Costa Rican movements for diversity joined public institutions to demand equal rights on May 17, celebrated in Costa Rica as the National Day Against Homophobia, lesbophobia and Transphobia.
With a march in downtown Guadalupe, dozens of people paralyzed traffic to demand an end to homophobia and unite for equality, confronting President Laura Chinchillan who declared that human rights are not a priority of her administration.
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Faced with total and unjustified suspension of their subsidies from the State, activists used the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia as the stage to set a massive protest public action, which attracted extensive media coverage
Manas Bangla is a network of 13 community-based organisations engaged in the distribution of medical and social support to approximately 10,000 homosexual men, transgenders and Hijras in West Bengal
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"Through education, through campaigning and through the sheer force of moral suasion, we must strive to deliver equality for LGBT people that others have so long enjoyed and they have too long been denied." John Bercow
Kaleidoscope Trust’s President and Speaker of the UK House of Commons gave a speech on IDAHO, which was attended by the UK Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone, and other MPs and Members of the House of Lords
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As part of their youth development work, the Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA), a NGO based at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, has been mentoring young LGBT people in campaign building around issues that affect them.
As a result, students put together an exciting campaign for IDAHO, which included a silent protest at University Avenue, a flash mob and a panel discussion about campaign building.
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