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I was just wondering, does anyone know if this page needs citations for the events that link to other big articles? We already have a few references at the bottom as well. I understand if we do need them, I'm just wondering. Andral (talk) 04:46, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ace Day[edit]

What does "made up holiday" even mean? All holidays were made up at some point. Ace Day is officially endorsed by AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network, for those of you who do not know) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.43.41.182 (talk) 17:27, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There was no reason to delete Ace Day just because the article was removed. Ace Day is still a valid holiday, recognised by the asexual community and AVEN (the main ace organization). Ace day is important and significant because it helps to bring visibility to a practically invisible community Linuxdemon (talk) 16:30, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Again, by what standard is "Ace Day" a "widespread movement"? The primary notability criterion is coverage by reliable third-party sources. So, has it been commented upon by the media or other sources? From a Google search, the phrase seems to be used on blogs and other social media, and that's all about it.

    Even though I may sympathize with your movement, Wikipedia is not a place to "bring visibility to a practically invisible community". It is meant to be an encyclopedia, which is a compendium of existing knowledge, not a means of something known. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 04:48, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a satisfactory example of media coverage? I don't know how mainstream that site is, but it's not an asexual-specific website. There is also this article on Pride.com. Granted neither of these are sources for the date of the event anymore, since it's been moved to November, but they are sources for the event's existence. Spock of Vulcan (talk) 20:33, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ally Week[edit]

Why is Ally Week included in the list of LGBT Holidays? Allies are allied with the community, not part of it. Linuxdemon (talk) 17:44, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • You don't need to be that technical. Per article lead, "Ally Week is a national youth-led effort empowering students to be allies against anti-LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) bullying, harassment and name-calling in K-12 schools, it is also used in some colleges." It is obviously an event related to the LGBT community. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 04:52, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rename (2015): Holiday?[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. Reasonable suggestion, unopposed for over a week. Jenks24 (talk) 15:02, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Some of these, days of remembrance especially, shouldn't be called "holidays". It just feels wrong - aren't holidays for having fun? I suggest a move to "List of LGBT awareness days" instead. Sophie means wisdom (talk) 17:49, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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Gatekeeping of the A[edit]

There's been a bunch of edits regarding asexuality and its inclusion on this page. A few users seem to be trying to use this page to project their own personal opinion, and WP isn't the place for that. Here's an example (first paragraph): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_LGBT_awareness_days&oldid=840041391. Let's not do that. Zionyx (talk) 07:09, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

International Lesbian Day[edit]

The Wikipedia page for "October 8" lists International Lesbian Day. Should this be added here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.164.160.2 (talk) 11:47, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Issue with name of article[edit]

I have an issue with the name of this article, but I'm not sure how to change it. I dislike the fact that it is titled with the term LGBT, since there are a variety of other terms used, quite rightly, to describe days which do not fit under this acronym. I think it should be a simple fix from LGBT to LGBTQ+ or something of the like. Again, I'm just not sure how. Thanks. 2A00:23C5:DFA3:F101:F5F0:3015:6375:A24F (talk) 21:19, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Removal from List?[edit]

Should AIDS day really be on the LGBT awareness list? ItsDaBunnyYT (talk) 22:28, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I can’t tell which way you think from your question, but I’m interested to hear others thoughts. I’m not sure if it was removed at some point. I came here as I was surprised not to find it on the list.
I think it should be in the list. It’s really important for those who are impacted by AIDS, and at points in history that has been massively skewed to the LGBT+ community. Lack of visibility and huge stigma remain an issue today in 2022. Markcrossfield (talk) 12:32, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Nonbinary Awareness Week" and "Non-Binary Week"[edit]

With the last couple of edits there are now entries for both "Nonbinary Awareness Week" and "Non-Binary Week". -Lopifalko (talk) 08:38, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Asexuality Day[edit]

This was just added, and all that the citations link to is one site. Is this day actually widespread/recognized enough to be put on here?

I'd say it definitely is recognized enough, 2a02:a44f:2afa:1:2ca4:db51:3d3a:f98a, although it could use more sources, as there is a YouTube channel for it and a Twitter account for it. There is even a Newsweek article about it, along with articles on Indy100, The Guardian, AZ Magazine, and elsewhere. --Historyday01 (talk) 15:41, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Transgender holiday[edit]

www.kentisbury.info 2A00:23C8:2A04:7301:D179:597F:E9B1:AB49 (talk) 09:52, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Revert[edit]

@Raladic reverted my edits of removing "QIA+" from the "LGBTQIA+" term used in the lede. This was accused as disruptive editing. My reasoning is that, because this article is entitled simply "List of LGBT awareness periods", that the term "LGBT" should be used to reflect the topic, unless another variant is explicitly used in quotes from a source. Zilch-nada (talk) 13:06, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The list is quite literally a list of recognized LGBTQIA+ events, so in this case I strongly feel it is inappropriate to have the lead say just LGBT.
The discussion on why articles across the board have not yet been renamed was recently had on the LGBT main talk space and it was close, but no full consensus, so it ended up being a stalemate. Raladic (talk) 14:50, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
But that is a major inconsistency. "LGBT" as a topic across the board is the current consensus (no consensus to move); it thus makes no sense to use further acronyms. Additionally, "LGBTQIA+" is not described by any (but a few) of the article's 92 sources. As LGBT is quite literally the topic of the article (from the title), and the most general term used by all sources, to use the term "LGBTQIA+" is both original research, and, as a variant of the term, arbitrary. Why not use LGBTQQIAAP or other variants? Zilch-nada (talk) 14:58, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I would say that the lead should say LGBT until there is a consensus to change it something else. Historyday01 (talk) 15:00, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Even the lead on LGBT contains a section that recognized LGBTQ (without the IA) as the more common inclusive variant as what LGBT stands for it a contentious itself - so if you change it to just LGBT, then you also have to bring in that part into the lead to clarify as some people do use it in an exclusionary way and the list here is very much not just LGBT periods, which as you scroll up in the talk page has in fact been fought multiple times where things like the Asexuality day we’re gatekept because someone argued it wasn’t LGBT in the stricter sense. Raladic (talk) 15:04, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
At most, I would be open to the use of the term "LGBT+" as that mostly corresponds with the article's title, and isn't as arbitrary as "LGBTQ", "LGBTQIA" etc. The fact is that anything included beyond "LGBT" in the acronym is included in that plus sign. Zilch-nada (talk) 15:08, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
From my quick search online now, there are more new sources using LGBTQ+ awareness periods than just LGBT, so in fact, we may want to change this to a page move discussion and change this here to list of LGBTQ+ awareness periods.
[1] [2] [3] [4] to list a few. Raladic (talk) 15:21, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure whether that should be approached as a broad thing, covering all articles with "LGBT" in the title (except when it is part of a name for an organisation), or just this one. In this specific case I think the argument for a move is strengthened because the list includes many items which fall outside of a narrow interpretation of "LGBT". (Yes, I know that a lot of people interpret it with an implied Q+ but not everybody.) Of course, that leaves the question of exactly what to change it to. "LGBTQ+" seems perfectly reasonable to me but I'm sure that there would be a mix of both reasonable and less reasonable objections. --DanielRigal (talk) 15:59, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting. If is indeed the most common wording, then I am open to this change. Zilch-nada (talk) 16:35, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think that the "Q" and the "+" serve a similar purpose. There some nuances, that we don't need to get into here, that lead people to include both in the acronym and that's perfectly reasonable too. "LGBT", "LGBTQ" and "LGBTQ+" are all widely used versions of the acronym while "LGBT+" is less so. I would suggest that you reflect on why you have a problem with the longer versions of the acronym and seemingly with the "Q" specifically. I hesitate to bring up your behaviour on other articles but I think that the edit summary here is telling. I'm not going to blame you if you have a personal feeling of distaste for the word "queer". It has been widely stigmatised for such a long time, but so have all of the other elements of the acronym and that is not a reason to omit any of them. I suggest that you need to acknowledge (to yourself, not to us) that any personal distaste is just that, personal, and try not to let that cloud your judgement when editing Wikipedia. Sure, that isn't always an easy thing to do and nobody gets it right all the time. I'm just asking you to try. --DanielRigal (talk) 15:49, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is such an absurd set of accusations. You accuse me of having a distaste for the word "queer". Not at all; my above preference for LGBT+ was not in relation to how often it is used (LGBTQ+ is indeed more common), but in respect to how it covers all of the noted gender-identities and sexualities, including queer. There are also acronyms, such as LGBTI, LGBTIQ+ etc. that do not immediately follow with "queer"; LGBT+ would cover any variation or order beyond the simple "LGBT".
I raised concern on both this article, and the article above you linked, because of the long acronym, "LGBTQIA+". Now, while it's my personal opinion that the acronym is not a good one in general (that is the bias I admit to here; a distaste for long, gratuitous acronyms), it is not one reliably sourced such that "LGBTQIA+" should be used in the ledes of articles. Zilch-nada (talk) 16:32, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Honestly, I know it is a BIG issue, but personally I would rather it was resolved to be the same on ALL LGBTQ pages rather than just on this one. I totally agree with you that it SHOULD be changed, but I don't want to only be on this page. Historyday01 (talk) 17:49, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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