Events

A week to promote information and awareness about aromantic spectrum identities (a sexuality within the LGBTQIA+ community in which someone doesn't experience romantic attraction) and the issues they face. This week was first recognized from 10 to 17 November 2014, under the name Aromantic Awareness Week. In 2015, it was moved to the week of the […]

Pink Shirt Day differs from International Day of Pink as it is not specific to LGBTQ+ bullying, but all bullying in general. The original event was organized in 2007 by twelfth-grade students David Shepherd and Travis Price of Berwick, Nova Scotia, who bought and distributed 50 pink shirts after a ninth-grade student Chuck McNeill was bullied […]

Internationally recognized since 2014. A United Nations (UN) recognized day promoting equality before the law, and in practice, throughout all of the member countries of the UN. This day was first celebrated by the UN on 1 March 2014, launched as part of the previous year's Zero Discrimination campaign run by UNAIDS on World AIDS Day (1 December […]

Internationally recognized since 2009. A day to celebrate the trans community in a positive light, celebrating their lives and cultural achievements. This observance date was founded in 2009 by transgender activist Rachel Crandall, the head of Transgender Michigan, as a reaction to the lack of a day celebrating transgender people.

Internationally recognized since 2021. IAD is a coordinated worldwide campaign promoting the ace umbrella, including demisexual, grey-asexual and other ace identities. The four themes of IAD are Advocacy, Celebration, Education and Solidarity.

The International Day of Pink is a worldwide anti-bullying and anti-homophobia event where participants are encouraged to wear or display a pink shirt, echoing a mass gesture of solidarity with a student subjected to homophobic bullying in Cambridge, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2007. The International Day of Pink is a worldwide anti-bullying and anti-homophobia event held annually during the […]

A student-orientated day to end the silencing effect of anti-LGBTQ+ bias. Initially created by then-student Maria Pulzetti, the first event was organized by students at University of Virginia in 1996. It is currently organized by GLSEN. In 1997, one year after the day's creation, it went national, with over 100 institutions participating. Whilst there has been some participation […]