Gay Straight Alliance
L.P Miller Comprehensive High School
IMPORTANT DATES
LGBT History Month (USA)
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It is an annual month long oberservance of LGBT rights. It is orientated in the United States; however, it is celebrated throughout North America.
National Coming Out Day
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In the LGBT community, "coming out" means the voluntary disclosure of ones sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
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World AIDS Day
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World AIDS Day, designated on December 1 every year since 1988, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemiccaused by the spread of HIV infection, and mourning those who have died of the disease.
Ocotber
Ocotber 11
November 20
October
13-17
Ally Week
Ally Week is a national youth-led effort encouraging students to be allies with the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) members of their community in standing agasinst bullying, harassment and name-calling. It takes place in K-12 schools and colleges.
Intersex Awarness Day
Intersex Awareness Day is an internationally observed awareness day designed to highlight human rights issues faced by intersex people.
Oct. 26-
Nov. 1
Asexual Awarness Week
Asexual Awareness Week is an international campaign that seeks to educate about asexual, aromantic, demisexual, and grey-asexual experiences and to create materials that are accessible to our community and our allies around the world.
October 26
Transgender Day of Remembrance
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Transgender Day of Remembrance, which occurs annually on November 20, is a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia and to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community
December
1
December
10
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Human Rights Day
​Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
March 27- April 4
Pink Revolution
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Pink Revolution is a Saskatchewan-made initiative to promote diversity, prevent bullying, and take action to make our world a safer place.
April 1
Wear Pink! (Anti-bullying)
The Day of Pink is the International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Transmisogyny across the world.
April 15
Day of Silence
National youth-run effort using silence to protest the actual silencing of LGBT people due to harassment, bias and abuse in schools.
May 17
International Day Against Homophobia
​It was created in 2004 to draw the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movements, the public and the media to the violence and discrimination experienced by LGBTI people internationally.
June
Saskatoon Pride Parade
​The Saskatoon Pride Festival, hosted by the Saskatoon Diversity Network (SDN), is an annual week-long festival providing an accessible space in which to celebrate queerness, fostering community pride, and raising awareness of queer culture within the larger community.