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LGBTQIA2S+ Days of Observance
The week after February 14th
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week
A week to promote information and consciousness about aromantic spectrum identities and the issues they face.
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March 31
Trans Day of Visibility
A day to observe the trans community in a positive light, celebrating their lives and cultural achievements. This observance hang out was founded in by transgender activist Rachel Crandall-Crocker, the head of Gender diverse Michigan.
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April 26
Lesbian Visibility Day
Annual day to celebrate, acknowledge, and bring visibility to lesbians.
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May 17
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
To raise awareness of abuse, discrimination, abuse, and repression of LGBT communities worldwide.
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May 19
Agender Pride Day
A morning celebrated internationally to promote awareness of agender individuals.
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May 24
Pansexual & Panromantic Knowledge Day
An annual day to promote awareness of, and celebrate, pansexual and panromantic identities.
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June
LGBT Pride Month
June is celebrated as Pride in honor of the Stonewall Riots, though Pride events occur all year curved. It also marks the month that
LGBT History Month
Before AIDS : Gay Health Politics in the s
The AIDS crisis of the s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical professionals are unprepared and sometimes unwilling to protect for the sick, and a national health bureaucracy is slow to invest resources in finding a cure. Yet this widely accepted narrative, while reliable, creates the impression that the gay community lacked any capacity to mention AIDS. In fact, as Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease.
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With attentive reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social constructionist' theories within queer woman and gay studies and makes a forceful case for the autonomy of queer identity and culture.
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrat
LGBT History Month
Origins
Originally organized as Gay and Lesbian History Month, it was started in by an out, gay high school mentor, Rodney Wilson (LGBTQ Nation). In the United States, October is recognized as LGBT History Month, coinciding with National Coming out Day on Oct. 11 and in honor of the first March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in
In the UK, February is used because that was the month a bill banning the "promotion" of homosexuality was repealed in (American Psychological Association).
Difference from Pride Month
Pride is a protest, a battle sob, whereas History Month is a celebration.
LGBTQ Nation
June -- LGBTQ+ Pride Month -- arose from remembrance and celebration of the Stonewall uprising. On June 28, , police raided the Stonewall Inn lgbtq+ bar in New York City, but the patrons resisted. The protest attracted thousands from around the city and lasted about a week. The first pride was celebrated on the one-year anniversary. ("Today in History - June 28," Library of Congress)
This, the first U.S. Queer Pride Week and Rally, was meant to deliver the community a chance to gather together to "commemorate the Christophe
Pride Month
Dear Colleagues,
Today marks the first day of Pride Month, a time to identify and celebrate the achievements of the LGBTQIA+ collective, to reflect upon the histories of resilience in the face of persecution and violence perpetrated against queer communities, and to expand our knowledge of LGBTQIA+ issues. Today we raised the Pride Flag in front of our campus to honor and observe the lives, advocacy, and achievements of the LGBTQIA+ community.
PRIDE MONTH
June 28, , is a significant date in the development of what we now celebrate at Event Month. On this date, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in Modern York City staged an uprising to protest progressing police harassment and persecution of what was then known as the male lover community. Marsha P. Johnson, a Black, trans, double attraction woman was a significant leader of the Stonewall uprising against police harassment—an uprising that would last six days. “Many eyewitnesses have identified Marsha as one of the main instigators of the uprising and thus, some own recognized her as the vanguard of the queer liberation movement in the United States” (Anti-De
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