International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOT / IDAHOBIT) Internationally recognized since 2005. The main purpose of the 17 May mobilizations is to raise awareness of violence, discrimination, abuse, and repression of LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.
Internationally recognized since 2017. A day celebrated internationally to promote awareness of agender individuals.
Internationally recognized since 2015. An annual day to promote awareness of, and celebrate, pansexual and panromantic identities.
Menstrual Hygiene Day is an annual awareness day on May 28 to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management at a global level. It was initiated by the German-based NGO WASH United in 2013 and observed for the first time in 2014.
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. The world's first pride parade occurred on the 1st anniversary (28 June 1970).
Internationally recognized since 2012. 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.
Internationally recognized since 2009. A day that aims to celebrate and recognize the drag art all around the world. Created by Adam Stewart in 2009 through his Facebook fan page for drag queens.
Internationally recognized since 1999.
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day, is a Canadian statutory holiday to recognize the legacy of the Canadian Indian residential school system. The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public commemoration of […]
An annual day celebrating lesbian culture that originated in 1980 in New Zealand and Australia, but is now celebrated internationally.
Internationally recognized since 1988. A day to celebrate the act of "coming out", i.e. when an LGBT person decides to publicly share their gender identities or sexual orientation. National Coming out Day was founded in the United States by gay rights activists Robert Eichberg and Jean O' Leary on 1988 in Washington, DC, United States. By 1990 it […]
Internationally recognized since 2018. An annual event that seeks to make sharing, respecting and educating about personal pronouns commonplace.