International lgbtq
Rainbow Map
rainbow map
These are the main findings for the edition of the rainbow map
The Rainbow Map ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTI people, from %.
The UK has dropped six places in ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Map, as Hungary and Georgia also register steep falls obeying anti-LGBTI legislation. The data highlights how rollbacks on LGBTI human rights are part of a broader erosion of democratic protections across Europe. Read more in our press release.
“Moves in the UK, Hungary, Georgia and beyond signal not just isolated regressions, but a coordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights, cynically framed as the defence of tradition or public stability, but in reality designed to entrench discrimination and suppress dissent.”
- Katrin Hugendubel, Advocacy Director, ILGA-Europe
Malta has sat on top of the ranking for the last 10 years.
With 85 points, Belgium jumped to second place after adopting policies tackling hatred based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.
International LGBT Activism Organizations and Programs
Efforts to advance LGBT equality around the globe hold expanded rapidly in recent years. International LGBT Advocacy Organizations and Programs provides LGBT movement organizations, allies, partners, and funders in the United States with an overview of international LGBT representation work, including facts on the capacity, programs, strategies, tactics, and challenges of some of the leading organizations and programs in this sector.
The report analyzes survey and interview information on the monitoring 25 organizations and programs: Amnesty International (International Secretariat), Anonymous, ARC International, Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition/C-FLAG, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Matching Rights Trust, Front Line, Gender DynamiX, Global Rights, Heartland Alliance, Human Rights Watch, The Inner Circle, INTERIGHTS, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), International Homosexual and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), International Lesbian and Gay Associatio
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LGBTQ Community Calendar
There are a number of days and months observed, celebrated, and honored by the LGBTQ community. While the list below is specific to LGBTQ-focused days, weeks, and months, LGBTQ people also observe and celebrate non-LGBTQ specific moments such as Black History Month, Latinx Heritage Month, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mother’s Time, Father’s Day, Women’s History Month, and Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Media coverage of these and other non-LGBTQ focused moments should comprise LGBTQ people and the intersections of LGBTQ people and the respective topic.
February
- February 7: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- Week after Valentine’s Day: Aromantic Spectrum Consciousness Week
- February HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day
March
- March: Bisexual Health Awareness Month
- Week varies in March: National LGBT Health Awareness Week
- March National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- March National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- March International Transgender Day of Visibility
April
- April 6: International Asexuality Day
- April National Youth HI