LGBTIQ advocacy group Wimmera Pride Project will host a free community breakfast on Monday to acknowledge International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia, IDAHoBIT.
Wimmera Pride Project chair Scott Robinson said May 17 represented an opportunity for global communities to unite to make a stand against LGBTIQA+ discrimination.
He said IDAHoBIT, a highly significant and symbolic event for LGBTIQA+ communities, started in 1990 on May 17, after the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from the Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.
He said the health organisation also declassified being transgender as a mental disorder two years ago.