Queer Christian Events & Celebrations | March 2025
Commemorations and celebrations of events and dates of particular interest to queer people of faith in the body of Christ.
The rainbow flag with cross image, above, comes from the Rainbow Christ Prayer page by Kittredge Cherry at QSpirit.net.1
All March
Women’s History Month
Bisexual Health Awareness Month, first observed 2014, raises awareness about the bisexual community's social, economic, and health disparities, advocates for resources, and inspires actions to improve bi people's well-being. Promoted on social media through #BiHealthMonth. Observed in the US. Source: Wikipedia.
01 March 2025 (Saturday)
International Women’s Day.
Zero Discrimination Day is a United Nations recognized day promoting equality before the law, and in practice, throughout all of the member countries of the UN. This day was first celebrated by the United Nations on 01 March 2014, as part of the previous year’s Zero Discrimination campaign run by UNAIDS on World AIDS Day (1 December 2013).
06 March 2025 (Friday)
World Day of Prayer, celebrated annually in over 170 countries on the first Friday in March,2 “Promotes justice and equality for women through prayer, partnerships service and celebrations.”3 For more information visit the World Day of Prayer USA website (wdp-usa.org).
08 March 2025 (Saturday)
International Women’s Day
10 March 2025 (Monday)
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
14 March 2025 (Friday)
National Affirming/PIE Day (Canada) was co-founded by Affirm United/S’affirmer Ensemble and Affirming Connections to set aside a special day every year to celebrate the full inclusion of LGBTQ2SIA+ people in faith communities and beyond! This day also reminds and challenges us to continue widening our welcome and using the concepts of PIE Day to embody love and celebrate gender and sexual diversity in all its forms. PIE stands for “public, intentional, and explicit” and encourages faith communities to be all three. For more information, visit pieday.ca.
15 March 2025 (Monday)
International Day Against Police Brutality
17 March 2025 (Monday)
Bayard Rustin’s Birthday
St. Patrick’s Day, is the feast day of St. Patrick, on which queer Irish organizations were prevented from marching in notable St. Patrick’s Day parades (even though “everybody” is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day).
20 March 2025 (Thursday)
Spring Equinox (5:02 am EDT/2:02 am PDT).
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor Day is observed in honor of Fred Rogers, who was born on March 20, 1928. Not only was Mr. Rogers a television personality, host and producer, he was also ordained as a Presbyterian minister where he lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His lifetime dedicated to teaching about being good neighbors has affected millions of children throughout several decades. Check out the Fred Rogers Institute at fredrogersinstitute.org.
Source: DaysoftheYear.com.
31 March 2023 (Friday)
International Transgender Day of Visibility celebrates transgender people and their contributions to society and raises awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide. It was founded in 2009 by transgender activist Rachel Crandall Crocker, Executive Director and Co-founder of Transgender Michigan.
Week of (No) Silence begins. It ends 04 April with the Day of (No) Silence (see glsen.org/dayofnosilence).
Thank you for reading, commemorating, and celebrating!
If I missed anything, let me know. I’m also open to posting events of interest to queer people of faith from other traditions, so if you’d like to help me make this list more complete, email me at joncarl.lewis@gmail.com.
QSpirit is a refreshing, empowering, obscure-information-packed website and blog curated by Kittredge Cherry “questioning spiritual assumptions with quality content for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & queer (LGBTQ) people and allies” —from QSpirit.net.
“World Day of Prayer.” 2024. In Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Day_of_Prayer.
“World Day of Prayer USA – Informed Prayer and Prayerful Action.” n.d. Accessed March 7, 2025. https://wdp-usa.org/.
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