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DIVERSITY DAYS: 2SLGBTQI+ Days Of Significance Throughout 2025

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DIVERSITY DAYS: 2SLGBTQI+ Days Of Significance Throughout 2025

Mark these dates on your calendar and help increase awareness for your vibrant community…

The following are widely recognized awareness days, weeks and months that celebrate, honour and increase awareness for our diverse and vibrant 2SLGBTQI+ communities.

FEBRUARY

  • Pink Triangle Day (February 14)
  • Pink Shirt Day (Last Wednesday of February)

MARCH

  • Bisexual Health Awareness Month (March 1–31)
  • Zero Discrimination Day (March 1)
  • Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ Awareness to Celebration Day (March 20)
  • Omnisexual Awareness Day (March 21)
  • Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) (March 31)

APRIL

  • International Asexuality Day (April 6)
  • International Day of Pink (Second Wednesday of April)
  • Lesbian Day of Visibility (April 26)
  • Lesbian Visibility Week (Last week of April)

MAY

  • International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) (May 17)
  • Pansexual and Panromantic Visibility Day (May 24)
  • LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awareness Day (May 28)

JUNE

  • Pride Month (June 1–30)
  • Pulse Remembrance Day (June 12)
  • Stonewall Riots Anniversary (June 28)

JULY

  • Non-Binary Awareness Week (Week preceding July 14)
  • International Non-Binary People’s Day (July 14)
  • International Drag Day (July 16)

AUGUST

  • Wear it Purple Day (Last Friday in August)
  • Butch Appreciation Day (August 18)

SEPTEMBER

  • Bisexual Awareness Week (Week preceding September 23)
  • Celebrate Bisexuality Day (September 23)
  • Ally Week (Last week of September)

OCTOBER

  • LGBT History Month (October 1–31) 
  • International Lesbian Day (October 8)
  • National Coming Out Day (October 11)
  • International Pronouns Day (Third Wednesday in October)
  • Spirit Day (Third Thursday in October)
  • Intersex Awareness Day (October 26)
  • Asexual Awareness Week (Last full week in October)

NOVEMBER

  • Trans Awareness Month (November 1–30)
  • Intersex Solidarity Day (November 8)
  • Transgender Awareness Week (November 13–19)
  • Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20)

DECEMBER

  • World AIDS Day (December 1)
  • Pansexual Pride Day (December 8)
  • Human Rights Day (December 10)

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