LGBTQIA Calendar

This page is a work in progress toward a 365-day calendar attributed to LGBTQIA+ icons, events, ideas, and other queer history.

January

• 21st, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

February

• Black History Month
• 5th - National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

March

• Bisexual Health Awareness Month
• Women's Month
• 1st - Zero Discrimination Day
• 8th - International Women's Day
• 31st - Transgender Day of Visibility

April

• 6th - International Asexuality Day
• 26th - Lesbian Visibility Day
• Second Friday - Day of Silence

May

• 17th - International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
• 21st - National protest against exclusion from armed forces (1966)
• 22nd - Harvey Milk Day
• 24th - Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness Day

June

• Pride
• 5th - HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day
• 12th - Pulse Night of Remembrance
• 24th - Christopher Street Liberation Day (1979)
• 28th - Stonewall Riots Anniversary

July

• Pride
• Disability Pride Month
• 14th - Non-Binary Awareness Week / Non-Binary People's Day
• 16th - Drag Day

August

• Last Friday - Wear It Purple Day
• 5th - Black Nite Brawl (1961)
• 13th - Bay Area Reporter "No Obits" that occurred due to HIV/AIDS-related illness (1998)
• 28th - Picketing of the State Department by the Mattachine Society (1965)

September

• Bi Awareness Week
• 5th - Freddie Mercury's Birthday
• 12th - GLF Picket of The Village Voice (September 12, 1969)
• 14th - ACT UP Infiltrates the NYSE (1989)
• 18th - AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
• 23rd - Celebrate Bisexuality Day
• 23rd - Gigi Raven Wilbur's Birthday

October

• LGBTQIA+ History Month
• Asexual Awareness Week
• 8th - Lesbian Day
• 11th - National Coming Out Day
• 11th - ACT UP Shuts Down FDA (1988)
• 11th - International Day of the Girl
• 21st - National March on the Pentagon (1967)
• 26th - Intersex Awareness Day
• Second Monday - Indigenous People's Day
• Third Wednesday - Pronouns Day
• Third Thursday - Spirit Day

November

• Trans Awareness Month
• 8th - Intersex Day of Remembrance
• 20th - Trans Day of Remembrance

December

• 1st - World AIDS Day