Louis-Georges Tin

In 2014, Tin was made Prime Minister of the State of the African Diaspora.

In 2011, activists in France launched a bid to win Tin the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2012, he became President of the Representative Council of Black Associations (CRAN), an organisation he co-founded.

In 2006, IDAHO launched a petition calling for the universal decriminalisation of homosexuality. The following year, Tin launched a campaign against Transphobia, with a petition signed by 300 non-governmental organisations from over 75 countries.

The first IDAHO was marked in 2005. In his preface to the English language edition of the Dictionary, Tin wrote:

In 2004, Tin founded Au Nou Allé ("Let's go" in Creole), a black LGBT association. In the same year, Louis-Georges Tin initiated what was initially known as the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO), celebrated on 17 May - the date in 1990 that homosexuality was declassified as a mental disorder by the World Health Organization.

Tin was the editor of The Dictionary of Homophobia: a Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience, first published in French in 2003 and later in an English translation.

Louis-Georges Tin (born 1974) is a French academic, gay rights campaigner, and anti-racist activist. Tin is noted for initiating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, now marked in over 130 countries across the world, and co-founding the Representative Council of Black Associations (CRAN).

Louis-Georges Tin was born in Martinique in 1974. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, during which time - in 1997.- he co-founded activist organisation Homonormalités.