{"id":4015,"date":"2019-05-17T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","slug":"the-international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia-is-17th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/05\/17\/the-international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia-is-17th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia is 17th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IDAHOBIT 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmay17.org%2Fabout%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C7979199e61b641ceefb308d6daa9e68d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C636936820590952464&amp;sdata=qSV8wMoM5OzjFy5GUEj71K2KhQe9ZL6K0egujRy0uD4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia is 17th\u00a0<\/a>May<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stonewall.org.uk%2Fabout-us%2Fnews%2Flgbt-inclusive-organisations-you-should-know-about&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C7979199e61b641ceefb308d6daa9e68d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636936820590952464&amp;sdata=2SY6y%2FdTdDxiyPWSg1ucpooivfN%2BUlySGa%2FQCzjIJhg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Stonewall has shared some key support organisations<\/a>. Its website has examples of continuing discrimination.<br \/>\nThe TUC has also released reports <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuc.org.uk%2FLGBTsexualharassment&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C7979199e61b641ceefb308d6daa9e68d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636936820590952464&amp;sdata=hVoYaVPbv%2BQSFpUEpPsadf2Td3w9cDZ31pB%2B9BYFbhE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">of LGBT harassment at work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Censorship can and still does continue.\u00a0 Each year the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ala.org%2Fadvocacy%2Fbbooks%2Fbanned&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C7979199e61b641ceefb308d6daa9e68d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636936820590962458&amp;sdata=6z5KZmW8PM0IKco57v722%2FqLcKFDN423rCCheV%2BlJ2s%3D&amp;reserved=0\">American Library Association provides a list of books<\/a> that have been targeted for removal from libraries.\u00a0 Historically <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinknews.co.uk%2F2019%2F04%2F08%2Fjohn-oliver-gay-bunnies-book-most-banned-list%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C7979199e61b641ceefb308d6daa9e68d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636936820590962458&amp;sdata=pbUBzXWBVxiAELeJAcd6sHW7ZBYJqUyL6%2BWqhiXSYrA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">LGBT+ themed books have dominated.<\/a>\u00a0 Indeed in 2018, the second most banned book was the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjbT8Kpj1k7M&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C7979199e61b641ceefb308d6daa9e68d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636936820590972452&amp;sdata=mBnV8cGrEFYZu%2FC3fvH%2BgNziSTaxDrB2Garo3ATPKr4%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><strong>Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo<\/strong>,<\/a> a beautifully illustrated storybook about a gay rabbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDAHOBIT 2019 The International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia is 17th\u00a0May Stonewall has shared some key support organisations. Its website has examples of continuing discrimination. The TUC has also released reports of LGBT harassment at work Censorship can and still does continue.\u00a0 Each year the American Library Association provides a list of books that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,15],"tags":[54,514],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-education","category-sociology","tag-gay-equality","tag-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}