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LGBTQ+ Awareness Periods
LGBTQ+ Awareness Periods
The following is a list of internationally-recognized and domestically-recognized LGBTQ+ awareness periods, i.e. awareness days, weeks and months that focus on LGBTQ+ matters.
Agender Pride Day: May 19
Asexual Awareness Week: Last week in October
Bisexual Awareness Week: September 16 – 23
Celebrate Bisexuality Day: September 23
Day of Silence: April 27
Harvey Milk Day: May 22
Human Rights Day: December 10
Holocaust Remembrance Day: January 27
International Asexuality Day | April 6th
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia: May 17
International Family Equality Day (IFED): First Sunday of May
International Pronoun Day: October 17
International Stand Up to Bullying Day
(Last Friday in Feb/Third Friday of Nov)
International Transgender Day of Visibility: March 31
Lesbian Visibility Day: April 26
Matthew Shepard
Born: December 1, 1976 Died: October 12, 1998
National Coming Out Day: October 11
Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day – May 24
Pansexual Pride Day: December 8
Stonewall Riots Anniversary: June 28
Transgender Day of Remembrance: November 20
Transgender Awareness Week: Second week of November
U.S. LGBT History Month: October
U.S. LGBT Pride Month: June
World AIDS Day: December 1
Zero Discrimination Day: March 1
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