Lgbtq remembrance day

LGBTQ Community Calendar

There are a number of days and months observed, celebrated, and honored by the LGBTQ community. While the list below is specific to LGBTQ-focused days, weeks, and months, LGBTQ people also observe and celebrate non-LGBTQ specific moments such as Black History Month, Latinx Heritage Month, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Night, Women’s History Month, and Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Media coverage of these and other non-LGBTQ focused moments should involve LGBTQ people and the intersections of LGBTQ people and the respective topic.

February

• February 7: National Shadowy HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
• Week after Valentine’s Day: Aromantic Spectrum Visibility Week
• February 28: HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day

March

• March: Bisexual Health Visibility Month
• Week varies in March: National LGBT Health Awareness Week
• March 10: National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
• March 20: National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
• March 31: International Transgender Time of Visibility

April

• April 6: International Asexuality Day
• April 10: National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
• Third Friday of April: Day of Silence
• April 18: National
  
  

  International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27)

  International Holocaust Remembrance Evening, is an international memorial day on 27, January commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. It commemorates the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jews, 1 million Romani, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, 9,000 lgbtq+ men by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly 60/7 on 1, November 2005 during the 42 plenary session. The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year during which the United General Assembly marked the 60 anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the complete of the Holocaust.

  National Jet HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (February 7)

  National Black HIV/AIDS Insight Day (NBHAAD) is an HIV testing and treatment community mobilization initiative for Blacks in the Combined States and across the Diaspora. There are four specific focal points: Obtain Educated, Get Tested, Acquire Involved, and Get Treated.

  National GLBT Heath Awareness Week (Last week of March)

  The Annual LGBTQIA+ Health Insight Week, a nationwide event that promotes the uniqu

  Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.

  You can read more about the Transgender Day of Remembrance below, and uncover out how you can show support for the community on this day.

  The week before TDOR, people and organizations around the country participate in Transsexual Awareness Week to aid raise visibility for non-binary people and address issues the community faces.

  What is Transgender Day of Remembrance?

  Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people ruined to violence since Rita Hester’s death, and began an important tradition that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

  “Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and aggression. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeki

  Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by Transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender gal who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to hostility since Rita Hester’s death, and began an important tradition that has grow the annual Non-binary Day of Remembrance.

  “Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to emphasize the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many looking for to erase trans person people — sometimes in the most brutal ways workable — it is vitally important that those we forget are remembered, and that we sustain to fight for justice.” -TDOR founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith.

  Traditionally, many communities honor this day by hosting somber candle light vigils, reading a list of Trans folks who have passed, and giving leaders and community members, especially LGBTQ folks, a stage to talk and be represented. According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), LGBTQ people may be tw

  November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance

  Risk Factors for Gay Individuals Key Protective Factors for LGBTQ+ Individuals LGBTQ+ young people are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide than their peers (Johns et al., 2019; Johns et al., 2020). LGBTQ+ young people with at least one accepting adult in their experience report significantly lower rates of attempting suicide. The Minority Stress Model, one of the most predominant theories used to explain mental health disparities experienced by LGBTQ+ individuals, suggests that experiences of LGBTQ+-based victimization — and the internalization of these experiences and anti-LGBTQ+ messages — can compound and produce negative mental health outcomes and increase suicide risk among LGBTQ+ individuals (Meyer, 2003). Transgender and nonbinary young people attempt suicide less when their pronouns are admired, when they are allowed to officially change the gender marker on their legal documents, and when they have access to spaces (online, at college, and home) that affirm their gender identity. The Trevor Project’s 2023 national survey found that nearly all L