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🌈💜 March is #BiHealthMonth! 💙💖

Bisexual people make up the largest share of the LGBTQ+ community, yet face higher rates of mental health struggles, chronic illness, and barriers to care—often due to stigma and bi erasure.

Health equity means recognizing & addressing bisexual-specific needs. This month, let’s push for better healthcare, visibility, and support for bi+ folks everywhere.

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💚 It’s Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! 💚

Romance? Cool for some. Not required for everyone.

The aromantic spectrum (aro-spec) includes people who experience little, no, or rare romantic attraction—and that’s completely valid! 💚 Some aro-spec identities include grayromantic, demiromantic, and lithromantic.

Love comes in many forms—friendship, community, passion, self-love—and aro-spec folks are out here thriving! 🌟

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🖤🤍💜 Happy Ace Awareness Week! 🖤🤍💜

This week, we celebrate and stand in solidarity with our asexual friends and loved ones. Asexuality is a valid and beautiful part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. Let's raise awareness, challenge misconceptions, and create a world where everyone's identity is embraced. 🌈✨

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Today the LGBTQIA+ Archives recognizes Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness Day!

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🌈 Today, we commemorate Harvey Milk, an iconic figure in the LGBTQ+ rights movement. His grassroots organizing and passionate advocacy paved the way for progress and brought visibility to the struggles faced by the community. Let's remember his courage, determination, and the important work he did to advance equality. Harvey Milk's legacy continues to inspire us to fight for justice and acceptance for all.

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🌈 Today, we commemorate Harvey Milk, an iconic figure in the LGBTQ+ rights movement. His grassroots organizing and passionate advocacy paved the way for progress and brought visibility to the struggles faced by the community. Let's remember his courage, determination, and the important work he did to advance equality. Harvey Milk's legacy continues to inspire us to fight for justice and acceptance for all.

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70 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1953, the FBI was contacted about a gay magazine, "One". This magazine was officially incorporated in California in February of 1952 with the purpose of covering perspectives of people with gay and lesbian identities.

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70 years ago, in 1953, the FBI was contacted about a gay magazine, "One". This magazine was officially incorporated in California in February of 1952 with the purpose of covering perspectives of people with gay and lesbian identities.

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Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia

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Today the LGBTQIA+ Archives acknowledges International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, a day meant to challenge prejudice, promote acceptance, and celebrate the diversity of the community. IDAHOTB began in 2004 by the IDAHO committee and has since expanded to include over 130 countries. Let's join together to create a world where love knows no boundaries and everyone is free to be their authentic selves.

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On this day in 1954, the Mattachine Society holds a two-day convention in San Francisco during their founding year.

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69 years ago, on this day in 1954, the Mattachine Society held a two-day convention in San Francisco. The Mattachine Society was a gay rights organization that formed during the Lavender Scare whose mission was to help show that being gay and lesbian was part of a normal human experience. They would lead many protests against federal firings of gay and lesbian people led by figures like President Eisenhower and Senator McCarthy.

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159 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1864, the Rutland Weekly Herald reports of 150 military recruits who were discovered to be women, who were banned from serving. During this period, it was not uncommon for women to dress as men for economic reasons, such as better jobs and pay. While this does not inherently make any of them queer or trans, it does speak to the willingness of people at the time to challenge rigid gender roles in order to improve their lives. Other records show some were clearly transgender people who went beyond economic motives and wanted to live fully as themselves.

#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #history #TransHistory #QueerHistory #OTD

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51 years ago, on this day in 1972, gay activists held a "Gay In" at Rock Creek park in Washington D.C. This was followed by a "gay vigil" at Patuxent State Prison. These were part of Gay Pride Week which included several actions throughout the week to make LGBTQ voices heard. A two-day convention featuring hundreds of delegates from the National Coalition of Gay Organizations was happening at the same time where an electoral strategy was being discussed.

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Today we are acknowledging Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Day and pledge to fight for the safety and rights of indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit individuals who are disproportionately impacted by this violence.

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51 years ago, on this day in 1972, the Gay Activists Alliance and Gay Liberation Party demonstrated at the Statue of Liberty. I was not able to find more details on the purpose of the demonstration (yet), but the FBI and National Park Service surveilled it leaving this fragment of information to follow.

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69 years ago, on this day in 1954, the FBI considered paying to attend a Mattachine convention after their informant declined over the expenses. Under J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI was intensely involved in surveilling LGBTQ groups and organizations, an extension of the fear and paranoia that existed in this period known as the Lavender Scare. LGBTQ people faced intense pressure from the government, creating barriers to being able to voice their ideas and organize, but it is in part because of this same surveillance that we have these records to look back upon today.