Friday Morning Open Thread

 May 17th is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.

The holiday was officially founded in 2004 by Louis-Georges Tin. The first event was held on May 17 in 2005 and was attended by about 24,000 people. The specific date May 17 was chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization’s decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1990. A petition was launched in 2009 in cooperation with L.G.B.T. organizations to add transphobia to the name of the campaign. The petition was supported by more than 300 N.G.O.s from 75 countries. It was also supported by three Nobel Prize winners: Elfriede Jelinek, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and Luc Montagnier. The first country in the world to officially remove transgender issues from its list of mental illnesses was France in 2009. https://nationaltoday.com/international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia/#history

Happy Friday.