Date | 17 May 2022 |
Time | Morning |
Venue | Junior College Foyer |
Every year on 17 May we celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. On this day we celebrate gender and sexual diversity.
This day was created in 2004 to highlight the violence and the discrimination that members of the LGBTIQ community experience in their day to day life. In many countries around the world homosexuality is still illegal and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex people and all other people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities or expressions, and sex characteristics not only have no rights but in certain countries they are arrested, imprisoned, tortured and killed.
This particular date was chosen because it was the day when the World Health Organisation decided to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders in 1990.
Together with the Malta LGBTIQ Rights Movement (MGRM), the JC Diversity Committee will be in the Foyer throughout the morning on the day to raise awareness, answer questions, sell rainbow cakes and merchandise with the LGBTIQ theme. Everyone is welcome to visit our stand.