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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
• Aromantic Spectrum Awareness: February 19-25
• Asexuality Day (International) April 6th
• Asexual Awareness Week (ACE) Last week in October
• BiNet USA – The Bisexual Network of the USA Inc.
• 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 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)
• Lesbian Visibility Day: April 26
• Lesbian Visibility Week (Last week in April)
• Matthew Shepard | b. December 1, 1976 – d. October 12, 1998
• Matthew Shepard / James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act – Oct 22, 28, 2009
• 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 Day of Visibility (International) – March 31
• Transgender Awareness Week: Second week of November
• Transgender Flag Day: August 19
• Tyler Clementi | b. December 19, 1991 – d. September 22, 2010
• U.S. LGBT History Month: October
• U.S. LGBT Pride Month: June
• World AIDS Day: December 1
• Zero Discrimination Day: March 1