Ace Week, formerly Asexual Awareness Week, is an international campaign dedicated to raising awareness and expanding education of asexuality.

Ace Week is driven by local community organizers. Each year, countless workshops, socials, and discussion groups are held in cities around the world.

What is asexuality?

An asexual person experiences little to no sexual attraction and/or sexual desire.

Our community uses the word ace to encompass anyone who fits within the spectrum of asexuality.

Intersex Awareness Day on October 26 marks the first public demonstration by intersex people in North America. Morgan Holmes and Max Beck of Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) were joined by allies from Transexual Menace and other organizations. It took place on October 26, 1996, in Boston, Massachusetts outside a conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  

Intersex people are often erased from the LGBTQ+ community for a number of reasons, so it is important to use this day to bring awareness to Intersex people and share ways that people can support and uplift Intersex people. 

Intersex Day of Solidarity, also known as Intersex Day of Remembrance, takes place on November 8. The Day marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a French intersex person whose memoirs were later published by the philosopher Michel Foucault, along with contemporary texts and a later fictionalized account. Intersex Solidarity day is used to bring awareness to the issues faced by Intersex people and remember those Intersex people who we have lost along the way.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honours the memory of those who have been killed or subjected to violence due to transphobia. 2019 saw 331 (recorded) trans people murdered across the world making this date one of the most significant dates for taking time to honour the dead and gain motivation to tackle the abhorrent transphobia in the world today. 

Trans and Non-binary people are some of the most oppressed members of the LGBTQ+ community and it is vital that we have days which bring attention to the lives and experiences of Non-binary people and that we take action against trans and nonbinary phobia on this day and all days. 

Rainbow Laces is a Stonewall campaign where participants do something active while wearing Rainbow Laces in their boots or trainers, to show their support for LGBT equality. It has grown from a campaign that specifically focused on homophobia in football, to something that now acknowledges the challenges all spectrums of the LGBT community face within sport as a whole. It’s a positive campaign that celebrates LGBT people and helps to start conversations about how we can improve LGBT inclusion across sports so that they become everyone’s game.

Rainbow Laces is a Stonewall campaign where participants do something active while wearing Rainbow Laces in their boots or trainers, to show their support for LGBT equality. It has grown from a campaign that specifically focused on homophobia in football, to something that now acknowledges the challenges all spectrums of the LGBT community face within sport as a whole. It’s a positive campaign that celebrates LGBT people and helps to start conversations about how we can improve LGBT inclusion across sports so that they become everyone’s game.

World AIDS Day takes place on 1 December each year. It’s an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. Despite the virus only being identified in 1984, more than 35 million people have died of HIV or AIDS, making it one of the most destructive pandemics in history. HIV and AIDS had, and still has today, a direct effect on the LGBT community which is why world AIDS day holds significance among the LGBT+ community. 

World AIDS Day is important because it reminds the public and Government that HIV has not gone away – there is still a vital need to raise money, increase awareness, fight prejudice and improve education.