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LGBTQ+ Awareness Periods
The following is a list of domestically and internationally 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
- Bisexual Awareness Week: September 16 – 23
- Celebrate Bisexuality Day: September 23
- Club Q Nightclub Shooting – November 19–20, 2022
- Day of Silence: April 27
- Gilbert Baker | b. June 2, 1951 – d. March 31, 2017
- Harvey Milk Day | b. May 22, 1930 – d. November 27, 1978
- 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)
- Intersex Awareness Day: October 26th
- Lesbian Visibility Day: April 26
- Lesbian Visibility Week (Last week in April)
- LGBT History Month – October
- Matthew Shepard | b. December 1, 1976 – d. October 12, 1998
- Matthew Shepard / James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act – Oct 22, 28, 2009
- Mychal Fallon Judge, OFM | b. May 11, 1933 – d. September 11, 2001
- National Coming Out Day: October 11
- Non-Binary Awareness Week (Second Week In July)
- Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day – May 24
- Pansexual Pride Day: December 8
- Pulse Night Club Shooting: June 12, 2016
- Rainbow “Pride” Flag Day: June 25 (Sunday, June 25, 1978)
- Stonewall Uprising Anniversary: June 28, 1969
- Transgender Awareness Week: Second week of November
- Transgender Day of Remembrance: November 20
- Transgender Day of Visibility (International) – March 31
- Transgender Flag Day: August 19
- Transgender History Month (August)
- 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
Places to visit with LGBTQ+ historical significance.