Transphobia

A refugee transsexual woman who fled Syria due to the country's civil war was murdered in her house in Istanbul on Dec. 17, the Ankara-based Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) has reported.

The murder was reportedly described as "transphobic" and "anti-immigrant."

BELGRADE - A rainbow flag was hung out on the building of Serbia's protector of citizens as part of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia celebrations, a sign of support for people of different sexual orientation and gender identity and the fight for their rights, on Tuesday.
    

If you are part of the LGBT community then you should look to the North of Europe. A gay dating and information network called Planet Romeo published a very interesting report this week, ranking the happiness levels of gay men across the world. The “Gay Happiness Index” showed Iceland in first place, and Uganda in last.

May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, a day of celebration of sexual identities and sexual orientations, a day to raise awareness on the violation of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals) rights in as many as 120 countries and, as Y?ld?z Tar from the Turkish LGBTI rights organization Kaos GL puts it, "a day to stand against and take a

A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) protesters marched on May 3 in Turkey?s Aegean province of ?zmir, after four transgender women were recently the targets of violence. 

Around 100 people in ?zmir protested the incidents in the Istanbul, ?zmir and Kocaeli provinces that took place on the night of May 2. 

A report drafted by a civil rights organization has drawn a picture of the plight of transgender individuals in Turkey, finding that half of all transgender women sex workers in the country have been subjected to physical violence from police. It also states that the murder of transgender individuals in Turkey amounts to 40 percent of the total number of such killings in all of Europe.

BELGRADE - Serbia's chief negotiator in the EU accession talks Tanja Miscevic has been presented with this year's Rainbow Award for her contribution to the fight against homophobia and transphobia, and improvement of the status of the LGBT population in Serbia.

The Merlinka festival, which has been organized in two other countries in the region since 2009, is running this year for the first time in Montenegro.

The festival is always held on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17, which is marked all around the world.