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A day to celebrate the trans community in a positive light, celebrating their lives and cultural achievements. This observance date was founded in 2009 by transgender activist Rachel Crandall Crocker (Michigan, United States), [58] the head of Transgender Michigan, [59] as a reaction to the lack of a day celebrating transgender people. Trans ...
LGBTQ History Month is an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer 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 Rodney Wilson. [ 2 ]
12 – Germany's parliament passes a law easing legal procedures for changing names and gender identity by a vote of 374 to 251. [11]17 – Sweden's parliament passes s law lowering the minimum age to legally change gender from 18 to 16 by a vote of 234 to 94.
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 ...
The Day of Silence has been held each year in April since 1996. Since 2011, the event has been held on the second Friday of April, except in 2018, when it was observed on Friday, April 27, [1] 2020, when it was observed on Friday, April 24, [2] 2021, when it was observed on Friday, April 23, [3] and 2022, when it was observed on Friday, April ...
The following is a calendar of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) events. This list includes gay pride parades as well as events ranging from sporting events to film festivals, including celebrations such as Christopher Street Day. Criteria for inclusion on this list are: Active: The event is currently active. Discontinued ...
A 1970s gay liberation protest in Washington, D.C.. The first pride marches were held in four US cities in June 1970, one year after the riots at the Stonewall Inn. [3] The New York City march, promoted as "Christopher Street Liberation Day", alongside the parallel marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, marked a watershed moment for LGBT rights. [4]
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