Courtesy of a link on Warwickshire's corporate intranet homepage, I've discovered that apparently today has been "IDAHoT 2011" - International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
http://www.dayagainsthomophobia.org/-IDAHO-english,41-
Apparently May 17th was chosen because the date is the anniversary of the World Health Organization’s May 1990 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.
Aside:Oddly enough, the terminal T in the acronym doesn't appear to be a standard, with many places on the web (and even the organisation's own site) using the acronym "IDAHo". Not to be confused, of course, with the US State; as did a few people on the discussion page attached to the event's Wiki article (which unfortunately looking suspiciously like a largely copy/paste job). The organisation's former web address (idahomophobia.org) probably doesn't help matters either...
Oh the perils of producing a pronounceable acronym... :)
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IDAHoT 2011
Bad choice of name, but good anniversary.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Doesn't look
as if the publicity was terribly effective in the west. Oh well, good intentions and the road to...
Angharad
Angharad
Nice idea for an event
Nice idea for an event and I hope it becomes more widespread and well known. It's just a pity looking at the events that the 't' seems not only largely absent from the name but also comes across as an afterthought at the events.
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Prounouncable acronyms ...
... can be a nightmare. A colleague was determined to name a piece of kit he designed as Blade Untwist Measurement. The hierarchy was not amused ... nor accepting :)
Robi