March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - Commemorating the 69 people killed by police gunfire at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid pass laws in 1960 March 20: National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - Draws attention to the impact of HIV on Native communities, as well as to call for access to testing and treatment March 10: National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - Learn more about the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls March 1: Zero Discrimination Day - Highlights the urgent need to take action to end inequalities of income, sex, age, health status, occupation, disability sexual orientation, gender identity, race, class, religion, drug use andethnicity that persist around the globe Aromantic, similar to asexuality, is defined as someone who does not experience romantic attraction to anyone March: Bisexual Health Awareness Month & Womens History Month The 'A' in LGBTQIA represents millions of Asexual, Agender and Aromantic folks part of the "a-spec" or asexual spectrum, which reflects how people do or don't experience romance on a spectrum. February: Black History Monthįebruary 7: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - Increases HIV education, testing, community involvement, and treatment among Black communitiesįebruary 20-26: Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week - An international event meant to spread awareness and acceptance of aromantic spectrum identities and the issues aromantic people face. This day marks the remembrance of the six million jewish lives, as well as millions of others, lost to the holocaust, including the forgotten queer lives targeted in Nazi Germany. January 27: International Holocaust Rememberance Day - Or Yom Hashoah marks the day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. January 16 - 22: No Name-Calling Week - Organized for K-12 schools to end bullying and name-calling in schools by GLSEN Since the LGBTQIA+ calendar fills up at least one day of each month, a calendar was in order - here it is! January: The LGBTQIA+ community is all over the world with a variety of culture, history and lived experience, which leaves no shortage of days in which the LGBTQIA+ community commemorates, celebrate and/or educates each other and our worlds far and wide.
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