How many gay holidays are there

Get out your calendars and get ready to highlight any LGBTQ "holidays" you want to observe. It’s October. Bisexual Awareness Day was last month. We’re smack in the middle of LGBT History month. 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] A day celebrated internationally [2][3] to promote awareness of agender individuals. [4]. We all know about Pride Month – the time when the world comes together to celebrate the freedom to be whoever you want to be. But did you know that there are dozens of other LGBTQ+ holidays that take place throughout the year (not just in June)?.

Discover the significance of LGBTQ holidays and their impact on society with this comprehensive guide. With so many holidays, awareness days, pride weeks, and heritage months happening all year long, we’ve been slowly collecting all of these events in a private internal calendar for years. ASAW is annually marked on the first week following Valentine's Day, the week is dedicated to both celebrating and raising awareness about Aromantic spectrum identities.

Originally Aromantic Awareness Week was first recognized in November , however, the following year it was moved to late February and renamed to Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week to be more inclusive. TDOV is dedicated to celebrating transgender people, their contributions to society and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide.

International Asexuality Day is a coordinated worldwide campaign promoting the ace umbrella, including demisexual, grey-asexual and other ace identities. Created in , this day showcases women-loving-women, providing a platform for lesbian role models to speak out on the issues facing female-identified sexual minorities. This day, alongside other queer celebration days, is still an integral part of moving forwards to create an intersectional society where all are treated equally and fairly.

Since , May 17th has been dedicated to the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, marking the day in when the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. This is a day to celebrate the pansexual and panromantic community and educate others on the community. Brenda Howard coordinated rallies and march after Stonewall and originated the idea for a week-long series of event which evolved into Pride Day.

This concept spread and is now celebrated internationally. Non-binary people may identify as having two or more genders, having no gender, moving between genders or having a fluctuating gender identity, or being third gender or other-gendered, a category that includes those who do not place a name to their gender. Throughout BiWeek, allies and bisexual people learn about the history, culture, community, and current policy priorities of bisexual communities.

This day has been marked each year since to celebrate the bisexual community and to highlight biphobia.

Started by the coordinators at BiNet USA, this day is intended to celebrating and respecting the bisexual community as well as recognizing the ongoing challenges and biphobia the community faces. First celebrated in , it was declared a national History month by Barack Obama in LGBT History Month is a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements.

Each year on Oct. International Pronouns Day began in and seeks to make asking, sharing, and respecting personal pronouns commonplace.

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Referring to people by the pronouns they determine for themselves is basic to human dignity. Being referred to by the wrong pronouns particularly affects transgender and gender nonconforming people. Asexual Awareness Week is an international campaign that seeks to educate about asexual, aromantic, demisexual, and grey-asexual experiences and to create materials that are accessible to our community and our allies around the world.

Celebrated in October to commemorate the first intersex protest, which took place in Boston, MA outside the annual American Academy of Pediatrics conference in This day was first established in by Emi Koyoma and Betsy Driver, as a way to raise awareness and a day of action to end shame, secrecy and unwanted genital cosmetic surgeries on intersex children. Today the day also includes parents who have transgender children.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance TDOR was set aside to memorialize those who have been lost due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The first candlelight vigil occurred in TDOR provides us all an opportunity to publicly mourn and honor the trans lives lost in our community over the past year, in addition to helping raise awareness about hate crimes that the trans community experience daily.

Pansexual Pride Day is the date dedicated to celebrating pansexuality. This date is different from Pansexual Visibility day on May 24th. Each year, December 8 marks Pansexual Pride Day. Our battle for rights and acceptance is rooted in aggression, discrimination, raids and riots. Date: March 31, Date: April 6,