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List of LGBT awareness periods

January 09, 2023

The following are lists of internationally recognized and domestically recognized LGBTQIA+ awareness periods, i.e. awareness days, weeks and months that focus on LGBTQIA+ matters.[1]

Internationally recognized

Name Date Year Started Notes
Agender Pride Day 19 May 2017 A day celebrated internationally[2][3] to promote awareness of agender individuals.[4]
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week[5] 14 February, The week following (Sunday-Saturday)[6] 2014 A week to promote information and awareness about aromantic spectrum identities (“a sexuality within the LGBTQIA+ community in which someone doesn't experience romantic attraction."[7]) and the issues they face.[8] This week was first recognized from 10 to 17 November 2014, under the name Aromantic Awareness Week. In 2015, it was moved to late February and the name was changed to Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, to be more inclusive of all arospec identities.[9]
International Asexuality Day 6 April 2021 IAD is a coordinated worldwide campaign promoting the ace umbrella, including demisexual, grey-asexual and other ace identities.[10][11][12]

The four themes of IAD are Advocacy, Celebration, Education and Solidarity.[13]

Ace Week Last full week in October 2010 Week to promote awareness of those on the asexual spectrum.[14] It was founded by Sara Beth Brooks in 2010.[15][16]
Bisexual Awareness Week 16-22 September 2014 Also referred to as BiWeek and Bisexual+ Awareness Week.[17]
Celebrate Bisexuality Day 23 September 1999 Also referred to as Bisexual Pride Day, CBD, Bisexual Pride, and Bi Visibility Day.[18]
Genderfluid Visibility Week 17-24 October 2021 Also referred to as Genderfluid Week, Fluid Week[19] or Genderfluid Awareness Week.[20]
Drag Day 16 July 2009 A day that aims to celebrate and recognize the drag art all around the world.[21] Created by Adam Stewart[22] in 2009 through his Facebook fan page[23] for drag queens.[24]
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 17 May 2005 The main purpose of the 17 May mobilizations is to raise awareness of violence, discrimination, abuse, and repression of LGBT communities worldwide.
International Day of Pink The second Wednesday in April 2007 The International Day of Pink is a worldwide anti-bullying and anti-homophobia event[25] where participants are encouraged to wear or display a pink shirt, echoing a mass gesture of solidarity with a student subjected to homophobic bullying in Cambridge, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2007.
Intersex Awareness Day 26 October 1996 Celebrated in October to commemorate the first intersex protest, which took place in Boston, Massachusetts.[26]
Intersex Day of Remembrance 8 November[27] 2005 A day designed to raise awareness of the issues faced by intersex people. It marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a French intersex person. The event began as Intersex Solidarity Day, following an invitation issued by Joëlle-Circé Laramée, the then Canadian spokeswoman for Organization Intersex International.[28]
Lesbian Day[29] 8 October 1980 (NZ) or 1990 (Aus)[30] An annual day celebrating lesbian culture that originated in New Zealand and Australia,[31] but is now celebrated internationally.[32]
Lesbian Visibility Day 26 April 2008 Annual day to celebrate, recognize, and bring visibility to lesbians.[33][34][35]
National Coming Out Day 11 October 1988[36] A day to celebrate the act of "coming out", i.e. when an LGBT person decides to publicly share their gender identities or sexual orientation.[37] National Coming out Day was founded in the United States by gay rights activists Robert Eichberg and Jean O' Leary on 1988 in Washington, DC, United States. By 1990 it was being celebrated in all 50 states.[38] Although still named "National Coming Out Day", it is currently observed around the world, in countries such as Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and Australia also on 11 October, and in the United Kingdom on 12 October.
Non-Binary Awareness Week The week, starting Sunday[39]/Monday,[40] surrounding 14 July 2020[41][42] A week dedicated to those who do not fit within the traditional gender binary,[43] i.e. those who do not exclusively identify as a man or a woman, or who may identify as both a man and a woman, or may fall outside of these categories altogether.[44] Promoted on Twitter as @NBWeek.[45]
Non-Binary People's Day 14 July 2012 An annual day to celebrate and bring visibility to people who are non-binary in the LGBT+ community. The date is the precise midpoint between International Men's Day and International Women's Day.[46]
Pansexual & Panromantic Awareness Day 24 May[47] 2015 An annual day to promote awareness of, and celebrate, pansexual and panromantic identities.
Pronouns Day The third Wednesday in October 2018 An annual event that seeks to make sharing, respecting and educating about personal pronouns commonplace.[48][49][50]
Trans Awareness Month November[51][52] 2017 A month to celebrate transgender and gender nonconforming communities and to raise awareness for this community through education and advocacy activities.
Trans Awareness Week 13-19 November[53] 2017 A week to educate about transgender and gender non-conforming people, and the issues associated with their transition and/or identity.
Transgender Day of Remembrance 20 November 1999 Day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia.
Trans Day of Visibility 31 March[54] 2009[55] A day to celebrate the trans community in a positive light, celebrating their lives and cultural achievements. This observance date was founded in 2009 by transgender activist Rachel Crandall (Michigan, United States),[56] the head of Transgender Michigan,[57] as a reaction to the lack of a day celebrating transgender people.
Trans Parent Day The first Sunday in November[58] 2009[59] A day that celebrates life and the love between transgender parents and their children, and between parents and their transgender children.[60]
Zero Discrimination Day 1 March[61] 2014 A United Nations (UN) recognized day[62] promoting equality before the law, and in practice, throughout all of the member countries of the UN. This day was first celebrated by the UN on 1 March 2014, launch as part of the previous year's Zero Discrimination campaign run by UNAIDS on World AIDS Day (1 December 2013).[63]

Domestically recognized

Australia

Name Date Year Started Notes
LGBT History Month October 1994 Based on a similarly named awareness period in the United States, this is a month encouraging openness and education about LGBTI history and rights.
Mardi Gras Parade The first Saturday of March 1978 A day in the annual Mardi Gras festival held in the Australia state of New South Wales which features a pride parade, commemorating the first rally in 1978 where numerous participants were arrested by the police. The current Mardi Gras Parade maintains the original rallies' political flavour, with many of the marching groups and floats promoting LGBTQI rights issues and/or themes.
Wear it Purple Day The final Friday of August 2010 A day to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people. The day was co-founded by Katherine Hudson and Scott Williams.[64] Comparable days exist in a number of other countries, including the Netherlands (Purple Friday) and the United States (Spirit Day).

Brazil

Name Date Year Started Notes
National Day of Transgender Visibility [pt] January 29 2004 A day celebrated annually on January 29 and celebrates, since 2004, the pride, existence and resistance of the trans and travesti community within the LGBTQ+ movement in Brazil.[65][66]
National Day of Lesbian Visibility [pt] August 29 2003 An established date in Brazil created by Brazilian lesbian activists and dedicated to the date on which the 1st National Lesbian Seminar - Senale took place, on August 29, 1996.[67][68]

Canada

Name Date Year Started Notes
LGBT History Month October 1994 Based on a similarly named awareness period in the United States, this is a month encouraging openness and education about LGBTI history and rights.

Chile

Name Date Year Started Notes
Lesbian Visibility Day 9 July 2015 Commemorates the anniversary of Mónica Briones' murder, the first documented act of lesbophobia in Chile.

Ireland

Name Date Year Started Notes
Irish Marriage Referendum 22 May 2015 A commemoration of Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage through a plebiscite.

Netherlands

Name Date Year Started Notes
Purple Friday The second Friday of December 2010 A day aimed at reducing bullying and increasing inclusivity in schools, using a purple theme in which people are encouraged to wear purple clothes. In December 2010, COC Nederland named the second Friday of December "Paarse Vrijdag" (Dutch: Purple Friday).[69] The Gender Sexuality Alliance Network has continued to celebrate its observance annually since then.[70] Comparable days exist in a number of other countries, including Australia (Wear it Purple Day) and the United States (Spirit Day).

New Zealand

Name Date Year Started Notes
Schools Pride Week The second week of June 2019 This week is aimed at high schools and allows students to celebrate diversity. It is championed by the charity InsideOut[71] and has links to the UK-based and school-led diversity week[72]

United States

Name Date Year Started Notes
Bisexual Health Awareness Month March 2014 A month to raise awareness about the bisexual community's social, economic, and health disparities, advocate for resources, and inspire actions to improve bi people's well-being.[73] Promoted on social media through #BiHealthMonth.[74]
Day of Silence The second Friday in April 1996 A student-orientated day to end the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bias. Initially created by then-student Maria Pulzetti, the first event was organized by students at University of Virginia in 1996.[75] It is currently organized by GLSEN. In 1997, one year after the day's creation, it went national, with over 100 institutions participating.[76] Whilst there has been some participation from other countries, including New Zealand and Singapore, as of 2021 it is still categorized as a "national student-led demonstration".[77]
Harvey Milk Day 22 May 2010 Celebrated to honor Harvey Milk, assassinated politician, on his birthday. It is celebrated officially in California, Milk's home state.[78]
HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day 5 June 2014 A day to highlight the resilience and strengths of people living longest with HIV and AIDS, while pointing out the challenges facing this population and demanding action to improve their quality of life.[79] It was started by Tez Anderson, founder of Let's Kick ASS (LKA)[80] and promoted on social media using #HLTSAD.[81]
LGBT History Month October 1994 It was declared a national history month by President Barack Obama in 2009. The month was created with the intent to encourage openness and education about LGBT history and rights.
LGBT Pride Month June[82][83][84] June is celebrated as Pride in honor of the Stonewall Riots, though Pride events occur all year round. It also marks the month that same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States.
Pulse Night of Remembrance 12 June 2017 Annual day of US remembrance for the loss of 49 LGBT people in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.[85]
Spirit Day The third Thursday in October[86] 2010 Support for LGBTQ+ youth who are the victims of bullying, as well as to honor LGBTQ+ victims of bullying-related suicide. Comparable days exist in a number of other countries, including Australia (Wear it Purple Day) and the Netherlands (Purple Friday).
Stonewall Riots Anniversary 28 June[87] 1969 A day to remember the Stonewall Riots, a reaction to the NYPD raid of the Stonewall Inn.[88] This initial event was a galvanizing force for LGBT political activism, and argued by some to be the birth of the gay rights movement, in the United States and around the world.[89][90] The world's first pride parade occurred on the 1st anniversary (28 June 1970).

United Kingdom

Name Date Year Started Notes
LGBT History Month February 2005 Celebrated throughout February since 2005. Founded by Schools OUT UK - The LGBT+ Education Charity.

See also

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External links

  • , from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Support Services Office at Indiana University
  • International LGBTQA Dates to Know at Wright State University
  • Notable LGBT2Q+ Awareness Dates, at Queer Events
  • Notable LGBT Awareness Dates and Events, at Disabled World

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The following are lists of internationally recognized and domestically recognized LGBTQIA awareness periods i e awareness days weeks and months that focus on LGBTQIA matters 1 Contents 1 Internationally recognized 2 Domestically recognized 2 1 Australia 2 2 Brazil 2 3 Canada 2 4 Chile 2 5 Ireland 2 6 Netherlands 2 7 New Zealand 2 8 United States 2 9 United Kingdom 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksInternationally recognized EditName Date Year Started NotesAgender Pride Day 19 May 2017 A day celebrated internationally 2 3 to promote awareness of agender individuals 4 Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week 5 14 February The week following Sunday Saturday 6 2014 A week to promote information and awareness about aromantic spectrum identities a sexuality within the LGBTQIA community in which someone doesn t experience romantic attraction 7 and the issues they face 8 This week was first recognized from 10 to 17 November 2014 under the name Aromantic Awareness Week In 2015 it was moved to late February and the name was changed to Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week to be more inclusive of all arospec identities 9 International Asexuality Day 6 April 2021 IAD is a coordinated worldwide campaign promoting the ace umbrella including demisexual grey asexual and other ace identities 10 11 12 The four themes of IAD are Advocacy Celebration Education and Solidarity 13 Ace Week Last full week in October 2010 Week to promote awareness of those on the asexual spectrum 14 It was founded by Sara Beth Brooks in 2010 15 16 Bisexual Awareness Week 16 22 September 2014 Also referred to as BiWeek and Bisexual Awareness Week 17 Celebrate Bisexuality Day 23 September 1999 Also referred to as Bisexual Pride Day CBD Bisexual Pride and Bi Visibility Day 18 Genderfluid Visibility Week 17 24 October 2021 Also referred to as Genderfluid Week Fluid Week 19 or Genderfluid Awareness Week 20 Drag Day 16 July 2009 A day that aims to celebrate and recognize the drag art all around the world 21 Created by Adam Stewart 22 in 2009 through his Facebook fan page 23 for drag queens 24 International Day Against Homophobia Transphobia and Biphobia 17 May 2005 The main purpose of the 17 May mobilizations is to raise awareness of violence discrimination abuse and repression of LGBT communities worldwide International Day of Pink The second Wednesday in April 2007 The International Day of Pink is a worldwide anti bullying and anti homophobia event 25 where participants are encouraged to wear or display a pink shirt echoing a mass gesture of solidarity with a student subjected to homophobic bullying in Cambridge Nova Scotia Canada in 2007 Intersex Awareness Day 26 October 1996 Celebrated in October to commemorate the first intersex protest which took place in Boston Massachusetts 26 Intersex Day of Remembrance 8 November 27 2005 A day designed to raise awareness of the issues faced by intersex people It marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin a French intersex person The event began as Intersex Solidarity Day following an invitation issued by Joelle Circe Laramee the then Canadian spokeswoman for Organization Intersex International 28 Lesbian Day 29 8 October 1980 NZ or 1990 Aus 30 An annual day celebrating lesbian culture that originated in New Zealand and Australia 31 but is now celebrated internationally 32 Lesbian Visibility Day 26 April 2008 Annual day to celebrate recognize and bring visibility to lesbians 33 34 35 National Coming Out Day 11 October 1988 36 A day to celebrate the act of coming out i e when an LGBT person decides to publicly share their gender identities or sexual orientation 37 National Coming out Day was founded in the United States by gay rights activists Robert Eichberg and Jean O Leary on 1988 in Washington DC United States By 1990 it was being celebrated in all 50 states 38 Although still named National Coming Out Day it is currently observed around the world in countries such as Canada Germany The Netherlands Switzerland and Australia also on 11 October and in the United Kingdom on 12 October Non Binary Awareness Week The week starting Sunday 39 Monday 40 surrounding 14 July 2020 41 42 A week dedicated to those who do not fit within the traditional gender binary 43 i e those who do not exclusively identify as a man or a woman or who may identify as both a man and a woman or may fall outside of these categories altogether 44 Promoted on Twitter as NBWeek 45 Non Binary People s Day 14 July 2012 An annual day to celebrate and bring visibility to people who are non binary in the LGBT community The date is the precise midpoint between International Men s Day and International Women s Day 46 Pansexual amp Panromantic Awareness Day 24 May 47 2015 An annual day to promote awareness of and celebrate pansexual and panromantic identities Pronouns Day The third Wednesday in October 2018 An annual event that seeks to make sharing respecting and educating about personal pronouns commonplace 48 49 50 Trans Awareness Month November 51 52 2017 A month to celebrate transgender and gender nonconforming communities and to raise awareness for this community through education and advocacy activities Trans Awareness Week 13 19 November 53 2017 A week to educate about transgender and gender non conforming people and the issues associated with their transition and or identity Transgender Day of Remembrance 20 November 1999 Day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia Trans Day of Visibility 31 March 54 2009 55 A day to celebrate the trans community in a positive light celebrating their lives and cultural achievements This observance date was founded in 2009 by transgender activist Rachel Crandall Michigan United States 56 the head of Transgender Michigan 57 as a reaction to the lack of a day celebrating transgender people Trans Parent Day The first Sunday in November 58 2009 59 A day that celebrates life and the love between transgender parents and their children and between parents and their transgender children 60 Zero Discrimination Day 1 March 61 2014 A United Nations UN recognized day 62 promoting equality before the law and in practice throughout all of the member countries of the UN This day was first celebrated by the UN on 1 March 2014 launch as part of the previous year s Zero Discrimination campaign run by UNAIDS on World AIDS Day 1 December 2013 63 Domestically recognized EditAustralia Edit Name Date Year Started NotesLGBT History Month October 1994 Based on a similarly named awareness period in the United States this is a month encouraging openness and education about LGBTI history and rights Mardi Gras Parade The first Saturday of March 1978 A day in the annual Mardi Gras festival held in the Australia state of New South Wales which features a pride parade commemorating the first rally in 1978 where numerous participants were arrested by the police The current Mardi Gras Parade maintains the original rallies political flavour with many of the marching groups and floats promoting LGBTQI rights issues and or themes Wear it Purple Day The final Friday of August 2010 A day to foster supportive safe empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people The day was co founded by Katherine Hudson and Scott Williams 64 Comparable days exist in a number of other countries including the Netherlands Purple Friday and the United States Spirit Day Brazil Edit Name Date Year Started NotesNational Day of Transgender Visibility pt January 29 2004 A day celebrated annually on January 29 and celebrates since 2004 the pride existence and resistance of the trans and travesti community within the LGBTQ movement in Brazil 65 66 National Day of Lesbian Visibility pt August 29 2003 An established date in Brazil created by Brazilian lesbian activists and dedicated to the date on which the 1st National Lesbian Seminar Senale took place on August 29 1996 67 68 Canada Edit Name Date Year Started NotesLGBT History Month October 1994 Based on a similarly named awareness period in the United States this is a month encouraging openness and education about LGBTI history and rights Chile Edit Name Date Year Started NotesLesbian Visibility Day 9 July 2015 Commemorates the anniversary of Monica Briones murder the first documented act of lesbophobia in Chile Ireland Edit Name Date Year Started NotesIrish Marriage Referendum 22 May 2015 A commemoration of Ireland legalizing same sex marriage through a plebiscite Netherlands Edit Name Date Year Started NotesPurple Friday The second Friday of December 2010 A day aimed at reducing bullying and increasing inclusivity in schools using a purple theme in which people are encouraged to wear purple clothes In December 2010 COC Nederland named the second Friday of December Paarse Vrijdag Dutch Purple Friday 69 The Gender Sexuality Alliance Network has continued to celebrate its observance annually since then 70 Comparable days exist in a number of other countries including Australia Wear it Purple Day and the United States Spirit Day New Zealand Edit Name Date Year Started NotesSchools Pride Week The second week of June 2019 This week is aimed at high schools and allows students to celebrate diversity It is championed by the charity InsideOut 71 and has links to the UK based and school led diversity week 72 United States Edit Name Date Year Started NotesBisexual Health Awareness Month March 2014 A month to raise awareness about the bisexual community s social economic and health disparities advocate for resources and inspire actions to improve bi people s well being 73 Promoted on social media through BiHealthMonth 74 Day of Silence The second Friday in April 1996 A student orientated day to end the silencing effect of anti LGBT bias Initially created by then student Maria Pulzetti the first event was organized by students at University of Virginia in 1996 75 It is currently organized by GLSEN In 1997 one year after the day s creation it went national with over 100 institutions participating 76 Whilst there has been some participation from other countries including New Zealand and Singapore as of 2021 it is still categorized as a national student led demonstration 77 Harvey Milk Day 22 May 2010 Celebrated to honor Harvey Milk assassinated politician on his birthday It is celebrated officially in California Milk s home state 78 HIV Long Term Survivors Awareness Day 5 June 2014 A day to highlight the resilience and strengths of people living longest with HIV and AIDS while pointing out the challenges facing this population and demanding action to improve their quality of life 79 It was started by Tez Anderson founder of Let s Kick ASS LKA 80 and promoted on social media using HLTSAD 81 LGBT History Month October 1994 It was declared a national history month by President Barack Obama in 2009 The month was created with the intent to encourage openness and education about LGBT history and rights LGBT Pride Month June 82 83 84 June is celebrated as Pride in honor of the Stonewall Riots though Pride events occur all year round It also marks the month that same sex marriage was legalized in the United States Pulse Night of Remembrance 12 June 2017 Annual day of US remembrance for the loss of 49 LGBT people in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando Florida 85 Spirit Day The third Thursday in October 86 2010 Support for LGBTQ youth who are the victims of bullying as well as to honor LGBTQ victims of bullying related suicide Comparable days exist in a number of other countries including Australia Wear it Purple Day and the Netherlands Purple Friday Stonewall Riots Anniversary 28 June 87 1969 A day to remember the Stonewall Riots a reaction to the NYPD raid of the Stonewall Inn 88 This initial event was a galvanizing force for LGBT political activism and argued by some to be the birth of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world 89 90 The world s first pride parade occurred on the 1st anniversary 28 June 1970 United Kingdom 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