No Name-Calling Week | 17-21 January | sponsored by GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) to make educational resources to help you create a safe and inclusive learning environment for all students, teach students to understand and counter bias and bullying and inspire young people to do something about the name-calling and bias they see in their classrooms, schools and world. |
UK LGBT History Month | All of February(just for UK; US & CA do it in October) | Celebrated throughout February since 2005. Founded by Schools OUT UK - The LGBT+ Education Charity. |
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week | 14 February, The week following (Sunday-Saturday) | 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.") and the issues they face. |
Zero Discrimination Day | 1 March |
A United Nations (UN) recognized day promoting equality before the law, and in practice, throughout all of the member countries of the UN. |
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Bisexual Health Awareness Month | All of March | 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. |
Trans Day of Visibility | 31 March | A day to celebrate the trans community in a positive light, celebrating their lives and cultural achievements. |
International Asexuality Day | 6 April | IAD is a coordinated worldwide campaign promoting the ace umbrella, including demisexual, grey-asexual and other ace identities |
International Day of Pink | The second Wednesday in April | The International Day of Pink is a worldwide anti-bullying and anti-homophobia event 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. |
Day of Silence | The second Friday in April | A university student-orientated day to end the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bias. |
Lesbian Visibility Day | 26 April | Annual day to celebrate, recognize, and bring visibility to lesbians. |
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia | 17 May | The main purpose of the 17 May mobilizations is to raise awareness of violence, discrimination, abuse, and repression of LGBT communities worldwide. |
Agender Pride Day | 19 May | A day celebrated internationally to promote awareness of agender individuals. |
Harvey Milk Day | 22 May | Celebrated to honor Harvey Milk, assassinated politician, on his birthday. It is celebrated officially in California, Milk's home state. |
Pansexual & Panromantic Awareness Day | 24 May | An annual day to promote awareness of, and celebrate, pansexual and panromantic identities. |
LGBT Pride Month | All of June | LGBT pride is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as a social group.
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. |
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HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day | 5 June | 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. |
Pulse Night of Remembrance | 12 June | Annual day of US remembrance for the loss of 49 LGBT people in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. |
Stonewall Riots Anniversary | 28 June | A day to remember the Stonewall Riots, a reaction to the NYPD raid of the Stonewall Inn. 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. |
Omnisexual Visibility Day | 6 July | Omnisexuality is a sexual orientation where one is attracted to all genders or any gender, while having a preference. Often confused with pansexual, omnisexual does have attractions to any and all gender but with a certain preference. Pansexual is attraction to any and all gender without preference. |
Non-Binary People's Day | 14 July | 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. |
Non-Binary Awareness Week | The week, starting Sunday/Monday, surrounding 14 July | A week dedicated to those who do not fit within the traditional gender binary, 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. |
Drag Day | 16 July | A day that aims to celebrate and recognize the drag art all around the world. |
Gay Uncle Day | 14 August | Social media campaign, not yet fully a faggot holiday |
Bisexual Awareness Week | 16-22 September | Also referred to as BiWeek and Bisexual+ Awareness Week. |
Celebrate Bisexuality Day | 23 September | Also referred to as Bisexual Pride Day, CBD, Bisexual Pride, and Bi Visibility Day. |
LGBT History Month | All of October | 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. |
National Coming Out Day | 11 October | Thirty-three years ago*, on the anniversary of the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, we first observed National Coming Out Day as a reminder that one of our most basic tools is the power of coming out. |
Pronouns Day | The third Wednesday in October | An annual event that seeks to make sharing, respecting and educating about personal pronouns commonplace. |
Spirit Day | The third Thursday in October |
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). |
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Intersex Awareness Day | 26 October | Celebrated in October to commemorate the first intersex protest, which took place in Boston, Massachusetts. |
Ace Week | Last full week in October | Week to promote awareness of those on the asexual spectrum. |
Trans Awareness Month | All of November | A month to celebrate transgender and gender nonconforming communities and to raise awareness for this community through education and advocacy activities. |
Trans Parent Day | The first Sunday in November | A day that celebrates life and the love between transgender parents and their children, and between parents and their transgender children |
Intersex Day of Remembrance/Intersex Day of Solidarity | 8 November | 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. |
Trans Awareness Week | 13-19 November | 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 | Day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia. |
World AIDS Day | 1 December | World AIDS Day is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. |
Pansexual Pride Day | 8 December | Pansexual Pride Day is celebrated in honor of pansexuals, or people who are attracted to others regardless of gender. |