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Spirit Day. Spirit Day is an annual LGBTQ awareness day observed on the third Thursday in October. [1] Started in 2010 by Canadian teenager Brittany McMillan, it was initially created in response to a rash of widely publicized bullying-related suicides of gay school students in 2010, including that of Tyler Clementi. [2]
Commemorated on the third Thursday of October every year, Spirit Day encourages millions to “go purple” in efforts to stand against the bullying and harassment of LGBTQ youth — a population ...
LGBT History Month: October: 1994: It was declared a national history month by President Barack Obama in 2009. The month was created with the intent to encourage openness and education about LGBT history and rights. LGBT Pride Month: June [95] [96] [97] June is celebrated as Pride in honor of the Stonewall Riots, though Pride events occur all ...
Wear it Purple Day[ 1] is an annual LGBTIQA+ awareness day especially for young people, based in Australia. Supporters wear purple to celebrate diversity and young people from the LGBTIQA+ community. The Day is organised by Wear it Purple, a student run, not-for-profit organisation, providing presentations and workshops.
March (Hungary) May (Germany, Cuba) October (Australia, Canada, United States) Frequency. Annual. LGBT History Month is an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. [ 1] It was founded in 1994 by Missouri high-school history teacher ...
National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an annual LGBT awareness day observed on October 11 to support anyone "coming out of the closet". [1] First celebrated in the United States in 1988, the initial idea was grounded in the feminist and gay liberation spirit of the personal being political, and the emphasis on the most basic form of activism being coming out to family, friends, and colleagues, and ...
Transgender activism. I Am Jazz (2015) Being Jazz (2016) Jazz Jennings (born October 6, 2000) [ 1] is an American YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality, and LGBT rights activist. [ 2][ 3] Jennings is one of the youngest publicly documented people to be identified as transgender. [ 3] Jennings received national attention in ...
The transgender flag, also called the transgender pride flag, is used by people, organizations and communities to represent pride, diversity, rights and/or remembrance within the transgender community. Its usage is similar to the original rainbow flag but specific to the transgender community. It was designed in 1999 by Monica Helms and has ...