2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

Contents:

• GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS
• GAY HOLIDAYS
• GAY SEPTEMBER: AN ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL TREND
• IAS FOR GAY HOLIDAYS IN GREECE DURG SEPTEMBER
• 5 EXOTIC GAY HONEYMOON DTATNS TO VIS THIS SEPTEMBER!
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• GAY GROUP TRIPS: GAY EUROPE
• GAY HOLIDAYS? HERE ARE 19 AMAZG TOP DTATNS

GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS

Jam Lewis Stoll’s Birthday - January 18thDolly Parton’s Birthday - January 19thCelebrate this ally’s birthday by readg Dolly Parton’s most spirg quot — cludg about human rights and the LGBTQ+ munyTrans Prisoner Day of Actn and Solidary - January 22ndBrazilian Natnal Day of Transgenr Visibily - January 29thWeeks & MonthsNatnal Blood Donor MonthUse this day to advote for the rights of gay men to be able to donate bloodNo Name-Callg Week - Every third week of January‍‍FebaryHolidaysAnniversary of the Appotment of the First Openly Gay Uned Stat Feral Judge, Joseph Gale - Febary 6thNatnal Black HIV/AIDS Awarens Day - Febary 7thNatnal Freedom to Marry Day - Febary 12thAudre Lor’s Birthday - Febary 18thChosen Fay Day - Febary 22ndWeeks & MonthsAromantic Spectm Awarens Week - Week after Febary 14th‍‍MarchHolidaysZero Discrimatn Day - March 1stInternatnal Women’s Day - March 8thJa Mock’s Birthday - March 10thBayard Rt’s Birthday - March 17thInternatnal Day for the Elimatn of Racial Discrimatn - March 21stTwo-Spir and Indigeno LGBTQ+ Awarens to Celebratn Day - March 21stInternatnal Transgenr Day of Visibily - March 31stRead and share the ultimate gui on how to celebrate Transgenr Day of VisibilyWeeks & MonthsWomen’s History MonthRead and share our gui to celebratg Women’s History MonthBisexual Health Awarens MonthNatnal LGBTQ+ Health Awarens Week - Every last week of March‍‍AprilHolidaysGLSEN Day of Silence - April, Day VariNatnal Youth HIV & AIDS Awarens Day - April 10thNatnal Transgenr HIV Ttg Day - April 18thNonbary Parents Day - Every third Sunday AprilPhill Wilson’s Birthday - April 22ndLbian Visibily Day - April 26thWeeks & MonthsLbian Visibily Week - Full week after April 26thNatnal Deaf LGBTQ+ Awarens Week - Week Vari‍‍MayHolidaysInternatnal Fay Equaly Day - Every 1st Sunday of MayNatnal Honor Our LGBT Elrs Day - May 16thInternatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia - May 17thWorld AIDS Vacce Day - May 18thRead about the potential good news about an AIDS vacceAgenr Pri Day - May 19thWorld Day of Cultural Diversy for Dialogue and Development - May 21stHarvey Milk Day - May 22ndRead the bt quot om Harvey MilkPansexual and Panromantic Visibily Day - May 24thMeet the celebri you may not know are pansexualLaverne Cox’s Birthday - May 29thWeeks & MonthsMental Health Awarens MonthRead about how to celebrate Mental Health Awarens Month so you n better support the LGBTQ+ munyQueer and Transgenr Asian Amerin/Pacific Islanr Week - Every last week of May‍‍JuneHolidaysBrandi Carlile’s Birthday - June 1stTroye Sivan’s Birthday - June 5thRead about Troye Sivan’s actg but a film that fights HIV/AIDS stigmaHIV Long-Term Survivors Day - June 5thPulse Night of Remembrance - June 12thWorld Refugee Day - June 20thLearn about the anizatn Rabow Railroad is helpg LGBTQ+ refuge and this gui on how to celebrate World Refugee DayLarry Kramer’s Birthday - June 25thFirst Use of LGBTQ+ Pri Flag - June 25thLearn about the meang of the first Pri flag — and every LGBTQ+ Pri flag that’s e sceLGBTQ+ Equaly Day - June 26thLearn about the meang of LGBTQIA+ and other acronymsAnniversary of the Legalizatn of Same-Sex Marriage the U. Johnson and dive to her bt quotWomen’s Equaly Day - Augt 26thWeeks & MonthsGay Uncle’s Day / Guncle’s Day - Every send Sunday Augt‍‍SeptemberHolidays​​Natnal HIV/AIDS and Agg Awarens Day - September 18th10th Anniversary of U.

Repeal of ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell’ - September 20thAnniversary of the Foundg of It Gets Better Project - September 21stCelebrate Bisexualy Day / Bi Visibily Day - September 23rdNatnal Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awarens Day - Last Friday of SeptemberWeeks & MonthsBisexual Awarens Week - Starts on the Sunday before September 23rdAlly Week - Last week of SeptemberBanned Books WeekSupport LGBTQ+ thors wh our gui to how to fight book bansNatnal Suici Preventn WeekRead the bt quot about suici preventnNatnal Suici Preventn Awarens MonthRead and share this gui on how to take actn durg Suici Preventn Month — and read about how suici rat dropped when gay marriage was legalized‍‍OctoberHolidaysDan Savage’s Birthday - October 2ndInternatnal Lbian Day - October 8thNatnal Comg Out Day - October 11thMatthew Shepard Death Anniversary - October 12thInternatnal Pronouns Day - October 17thSpir Day for LGBTQ+ Youth - October 19thLearn how to support LGBTQ+ youth and take actnLGBT Center Awarens Day - October 19thIntersex Awarens Day - October 26thNatnal Transgenr Children Day - October 26thWeeks & MonthsLGBTQ+ History MonthRead about LGBTQ+ history om before StonewallNatnal Bullyg Preventn MonthAsexual Awarens Week (Ace Week) - Last full week of October‍‍NovemberHolidaysIntersex Day of Remembrance - November 8thRuPl’s Birthday - November 18thInternatnal Transgenr Day of Remembrance - November 20thInternatnal Day for the Elimatn of Vlence Agast Women - November 25thGivg Tuday - First Tuday after ThanksgivgLearn how to volunteer wh or donate to LGBTQ+ anizatns for Givg Tuday (and explore more ias to make a difference)Weeks & MonthsTransgenr Awarens Week - First two full weeks of NovemberNatnal Homels Youth Awarens Month‍‍DecemberHolidaysWorld AIDS Day - December 1stExplore good news about the fight agast HIV/AIDS the U. Created by Adam Steward 2009 and celebrated on July 16, Internatnal Drag Day to give drag artists a chance to showse their creativy and ntributns to gay culture. Started 2010 by Canadian teenager Brtany McMillan, and promoted by GLAAD, was created rponse to a seri of bullyg-related suicis of gay stunts like Tyler Clementi.

LGBTQHolidaysDateHolidayCategoryTags Jan 15 Monday No Name-Callg Week Cse Amerin, Awarens, LGBTQ Feb 1 Thursday LGBT+ History Month Cse Awarens, LGBTQ Feb 12 Monday Natnal Freedom to Marry Day Relatnship LGBTQ, Liftyle, Love Mar 31 Sunday Transgenr Day of Visibily Cse Awarens, LGBTQ, Liftyle Apr 12 Friday Day of Silence Special Intert LGBTQ Internatnal Day of Pk Cse Awarens, LGBTQ May 16 Thursday Natnal Honor Our LGBT Elrs Day Relatnship LGBTQ, Love May 17 Friday Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia Transphobia and Biphobia Cse Awarens, LGBTQ May 22 Wednday Harvey Milk Day Feral Civic, Historil, LGBTQ Jun 1 Saturday Pri Month Cse Awarens, Ftivi, LGBTQ Jun 12 Wednday Pulse Night of Remembrance Cultural Amerin, Cultural, LGBTQ Jun 28 Friday Christopher Street Day Cse Awarens, Ftivi, LGBTQ Jul 14 Friday Internatnal Non-Bary Peopl Day Cse Awarens, LGBTQ Aug 26 Saturday Pri Cym Cse LGBTQ Sep 23 Saturday Celebrate Bisexualy Day Relatnship LGBTQ, Liftyle, Love Oct 1 Sunday LGBTQ+ History Month Cultural Awarens, Historil, LGBTQ Natnal LGBT History Month Cse LGBTQ, Liftyle Oct 10 Tuday Iris Prize Film Ftival Arts & Entertament LGBTQ, Liftyle Oct 19 Thursday LGBT Center Awarens Day Cse Awarens, LGBTQ Spir Day Cse Awarens, LGBTQ, Safety Oct 26 Thursday Natnal Transgenr Children Day Cse Awarens, Children, LGBTQ Nov 9 Thursday Brian Holland Legacy Day Special Intert Appreciatn, Awarens, LGBTQ Nov 20 Monday Transgenr Day of Remembrance Cse Awarens, LGBTQ. Instead of happeng October, Gay Days Disneyland will take place Sept 17–19 and per tradn is a non-sponsored event which thoands of LGBTQIA folx raid both Disneyland and California Adventure drsed red (as a show of force and solidary). Te, Vermont’s largt cy—that would be Burlgton—only boasts a populatn of 45, 000 (roughly the same amount of people live NYC’s gayborhood Hell’s Kchen), but don’t unrtimate this charmg and liberal llege town loted on the shor of pretty Lake Champla.

GAY HOLIDAYS

Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, May 17, reprents an annual landmark to draw the attentn of cisn-makers, the media, the public, opn lears, and lol thori to the suatn faced by lbian, gay, bisexuals, and transgenr, and tersex people and those who do not nform to sexual and genr norms. It’s one of only five untri to make queer rights equal at a nstutnal level and holds first place on ILGA-Europe’s Rabow Europe Inx, which ranks untri on LGBTQ+ my last vis, a gay gui showed me round the wdg medieval streets of Valletta and Rabat, potg out sential bars and rtrants om Michel-starred Noni to the Monaliza Lounge drag bar, as well as the nightclub Michelangelo lively Paceville.

This spir filters down to Dubl’s many LGBTQ-iendly tablishments: two personal favour are iendly bnch spot Social Fabric Café Stoneybatter, one of the cy’s most tertg neighbourhoods, and Street 66 bar, a eful cktail spot before a night at inic LGBTQ+ stutn The southsi is gay-owned Gutter Bookshop (named after the famo Osr Wil quote), and the weekly “big gay dis” Sunday Social at Farrier & Draper; or cross the river for the Outhoe LGBTQ+ muny rource fe on Capel Street and PantiBar, owned by drag queen, activist and performer Panti Bliss. Enjoy bnch at Osr bar and fe, before a beer at one of Europe’s olst gay bars, Centralhjor, which hosts drag and Sunday jazz ssns venu clu Bøssehet Christiania, home to theatre, performanc, exhibns and parti – a well-suated boutique hotel is SP34 (doubl om £133) the Lat Quarter.

Nearby Delmoni’s (known lolly as “Del’s”), has been Merchant Cy’s “gay triangle” sce stay nearby, try the good-value Bnswick hotel (doubl om £50), on a street wh venu marked by rabow flags. Photograph: Nick Maslen/AlamyOn my last vis to Birmgham the rabow flag seemed to be everywhere, and the historic Gay Village, wh s bars, shops and f, is hugely visible, centred largely on Hurst Street. Start wh bibimbap at the thoroughfare’s Korean rtrant Topokki before drks at Missg, Siwalk or lbian bar The Fox and dancg at the legendary Nightgale Club, the olst gay club the cy, datg back to summer’s hot LGBTQ+ event is Fierce’s Healg Garns of Bab (27 June - 17 July): part of Birmgham 2022 Ftival, ’s an artistic rponse to this summer’s Commonwealth Gam, celebratg “what the Brish Empire tried (and failed) to stamp out”.

GAY SEPTEMBER: AN ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL TREND

Mykonos’s rep as queer heaven dat back to the 1970s, when Jackie Onassis beme a regular visor (she first vised 1961), before blossomed as gay rort the 1980s, wh acmodatn sprgg up for the largely male 2022, you n hang out at tablished hotspots Jackie O, bar Porta or Kastro’s, and stay at the Super Paradise (doubl om £249), handy for the island’s ma LGBTQ+ beach. Photograph: Subodh Agnihotri/AlamyFor many gay men of a certa age, Fland is extribly associated wh leather-clad inic hero Tom of Fland, whose books pict a ggedly sexualised masculy durg a time pre-1971 when homosexualy was still illegal.

Now you n take a tour of where thor Too Laaksonen lived his whole adult life, passg the Kansalaistori (People’s Square) ont of parliament, once a clanste meetg pot for gay karaoke fans should check out Mann’s Street, a boozy stutn; other fun spots are Street Pri the Kamppi district, and Kvääristö, a jot for queer women, transgenr, and non-bary people. 5ln people each year, cludg 300, 000 overseas self is one of the most LGBTQ-iendly untri the world: same-sex sexual activy was ma legal 1979, and was the third untry to legalise gay marriage, 2005.

IAS FOR GAY HOLIDAYS IN GREECE DURG SEPTEMBER

First stop has to be Chue, Madrid’s “gaybourhood” wh bars and venu dotted around Plaza Chue (also don’t miss the recently refurbished Merdo San Antón for tasty food stalls and a rooftop terrace). The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world. The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people.

Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni.

In June of 1969, a group of LGBTQ+ people New York Cy rted followg a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted on Christopher Street Greenwich Village. As the years went on, addnal ci North Ameri and Europe began to hold their own public monstratns or pri day, eventually leadg to what we know today as a gay pri para, march, celebratn or ftival.

5 EXOTIC GAY HONEYMOON DTATNS TO VIS THIS SEPTEMBER!

Whether travelg alone, wh iends or fay, visg durg a gay pri event n be a fun way to experience a new statn and IGLTA n help you fd LGBTQ-iendly bs almost any lotn to help make you trip memorable, safe and excg.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

Work on your tan on the betiful Mederranean beach of Sg and Barcelona, soak up the laid-back Greek atmosphere of Mykonos, h the famo all-night clubs of Ibiza, or cise the many gay bars of the lively Yumbo Centre the rort of Playa l Inglés, Gran Canaria. Whatever your budget and whatever your scene, whether you're lookg for a gay sgl holiday, upl pe or you want to travel wh a group of iends, let fd your perfect cheap holiday!

Wh our cheap gay holidays cludg als all over the world, ’s easy to fd the perfect LGBT iendly holiday you need, for ls than you’d Gay HolidaysSometim you jt need a ltle dulgence. You serve book wh Most popular Gay hotelsView all Gay hotel alsYour gui to Gay holidaysTime to exploreWe loveTime to exploreGay holidays to SpaSpa is one of the top gay holiday statns Europe for the LGBT muny, pecially the ultra-stylish Mederranean cy of Barcelona.

Spend a lazy day on the beach, stop for a cktail at one of the gay-iendly xirguos (beach bars), then h the shops before headg on to dner at one of the cy’s signer tapas bars and rtrants. Come early July to take part the Pri procsn, wh a big para followed by an even bigger outdoor dance half an hour away by tra is Sg, a pretty whewashed town that is sleepy and low-key wter, but transforms to a huge, gay party town when summer hs. Wh s long, goln beach, whewashed streets packed wh bars and shops, and fantastic nightclubs and beach bars, Sg jtly serv s crown as one of the most popular gay statns Europe.

GAY GROUP TRIPS: GAY EUROPE

Don’t miss rnival Sg, which featur geoly rated floats and some tly eye-poppg holidays to the Canary IslandsFor guaranteed year-round sunshe, fantastic beach and a fabulo choice of gay bars, clubs and rtrants, head to the Canary Islands.

GAY HOLIDAYS? HERE ARE 19 AMAZG TOP DTATNS

Playa l Inglés and Maspalomas on Gran Canaria are the most popular gay rorts, thanks to a batn of long, sun-drenched beach (cludg some nudist beach) and an explosive nightlife offerg a jaw-droppg choice of pool parti, foam parti, party cis and more. Don’t miss to go for a ffee at the gay f Rooster Monastiraki and Café l Sol Keramikos, dance to the rhythms of morn Greek and Internatnal Mic at Soda2 Club and Noiz Bar (Mostly Lbian) and chase a bear or two at Enodia and Garage Bars! Of urse, don't fet that there are many, many more statns Greece, where you n enjoy your gay-off wh your iends, romantic holidays wh your loved one, excursns nature, and cy breaks.