Adirondack North Country Gender Alliance

LGBTQIA+ Mixer - Malone - Moe’s Pub & Grill
2027-01-19 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-02-16 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-03-16 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-04-20 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-05-18 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-06-15 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Moe’s Pub and Grill, 3357 State Route 11, Malone, NY, 12953, United States
Join us for our monthly LGBTQAI+ Mixer at Moe’s Pub & Grill in Malone!
Come and join us on the third Thursday of each month from 5:30 pm – 7:30 PM
The main restaurant has numerous dining options. On the West side of the building there is an outdoor seating area, making it ideal for watching beautiful North Country sunsets. The outdoor section boasts a heated, covered area to keep patrons dry and warm, as well as an open area where you can enjoy a cold refreshment while basking in the sun. Inside, there are two separate dining rooms to give the restaurant a more personal feel. Situated between the two is a one of a kind sports oriented bar area. The fully stocked bar also features eight varieties of draft beer served through our signature Polar Ice Tap. You can enjoy Mo’s Full Menu from the comfort of your barstool or from one of the beautifully handcrafted high top tables. Keeping in line with Mo’s focus on athletics, there are seven HD flat screen televisions in all. So grab your friends and come root for your favorite team. Whether it’s football, basketball, baseball, or hockey, you’re sure to catch all the action at Mo’s.
Moe’s Pub & Grill
3357 State Route 11
Malone, NY 12953
Ph: (518) 483-3667

LGBTQAI+ Mixer - Saranac Lake - Bitters and Bones
2027-01-26 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-02-23 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-03-30 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-04-27 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-05-25 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-06-29 17:30 - 19:30 | Bitters and Bones, 65 Broadway Street, Saranac Lake, 12983, United States
Join us for our monthly LGBTQ Mixer at Bitters and Bones in Saranac Lake!
Come and join us on the last Tuesday of each month from 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Good people. Good food. Good drinks. Non-ETOH drink options provided. Kitchen open until 9pm.
An Adirondack brewery and restaurant, Bitters & Bones offers craft beer made onsite, signature cocktails, and fresh local cuisine – all made with love.
Dine indoors in our rustic-industrial tavern or on our rooftop deck during summer months.
Bitters and Bones
65 Broadway Street
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
Ph: (518) 354-8270

Zero Discrimination Day
2027-03-01 00:00 - 23:59
On Zero Discrimination Day this year, under the theme “Save lives: Decriminalise”, UNAIDS is highlighting how the decriminalisation of key populations and people living with HIV saves lives and helps advance the end of the AIDS pandemic.
Criminal laws targeting key populations and people living with HIV violate people’s human rights, exacerbate the stigma people face and put people in danger by creating barriers to the support and services they need to protect their health.
In 2021, the world set ambitious law reform targets to remove criminal laws that are undermining the HIV response and leaving key populations behind. Recognising decriminalization as a critical element in the response, countries made a commitment that by 2025 less than 10% of countries would have punitive legal and policy environments that affect the HIV response.
However, despite some encouraging reforms, the world is far from achieving the target. In fact, today there are 134 countries explicitly criminalising or otherwise prosecuting HIV exposure, non-disclosure or transmission; 20 countries criminalise and/or prosecute transgender persons; 153 countries criminalise at least one aspect of sex work; and 67 countries now criminalize consensual same-sex sexual activity, according to UNAIDS. In addition, 48 countries still place restrictions on entry into their territory for people living with HIV, while 53 countries report that they require mandatory HIV testing, for example for marriage certificates or for performing certain professions. 106 countries report requiring parental consent for adolescents to access HIV testing.
Criminalisation drives discrimination and structural inequalities. It robs people of the prospect of healthy and fulfilling lives. And it holds back the end of AIDS.
We must end criminalisation to save lives.

Bisexual Health Awareness Month
2027-03-01 - 2027-03-31
Every March, we come together as a community for Bisexual+ Health Awareness Month to raise awareness and bring attention to the disparities facing the bi+ community when it comes to health and health care spaces. HRC is again proud to support the Bisexual Resource Center, which founded Bi+ Health Month, and organizations across the country to observe the eighth annual #BiHealthMonth this March. This year’s theme of “Equity” further highlights the importance of looking at our work with careful attention to the intersectional disparities that impact the most vulnerable among us.
According to new data from Gallup, over half of LGBT adults (54.6%) are bisexual, with another 3.3% describing their sexual orientation as non-monosexual with terms such as queer and same-gender-loving. This means that 57.9% of the LGBTQ community is bi+ (bisexual, pansexual, queer, fluid or another non-monosexual identity).

International Transgender Day of Visibility
2027-03-31 00:00 - 23:59 | SUNY Plattsburgh Angell College Center, 36 Rugar Street, Plattsburgh, 12901, United States
Each year on March 31, we honor International Transgender Day of Visibility!
We will be appearing in person at SUNY Plattsburgh on March 31st in the Angell College Center as we celebrate the joy and resilience of trans and non-binary people everywhere by elevating voices and experiences from these communities.
There are over 1.6 million trans, non-binary and gender-expansive youth (age 13+) and adults across the United States. We are parents and family members. We are your coworkers, your neighbors and your friends. We are a diverse community, representing all racial and ethnic backgrounds as well as all faith traditions.
While we have made significant progress in recent years, with more visibility than ever before, we are still fighting for basic human rights for the community. Today we are experiencing significant political attacks by extremists legislating hate in the states and in Congress. We also face an ongoing epidemic of fatal violence, especially against Black and Brown trans women.
Today and every day, we must celebrate all trans and non-binary people everywhere and combat disinformation, discrimination and hate impacting our community.

International Asexuality Day (IAD)
2027-04-06 00:00 - 23:59
International Asexuality Day (IAD) will take place on April 6th. IAD is a coordinated worldwide campaign promoting the ace umbrella, including demisexual, grey-asexual and other ace identities.
The four themes of IAD are:
Advocacy
Celebration
Education
Solidarity
These themes highlight the aims of recognising and enabling the work that the international ace community and organisations do, particularly in non-Western and/or non-English speaking countries.
We encourage anyone who identifies under the ace umbrella to participate in IAD, particularly but not exclusively in non-anglophone and/or non-Western countries. Participation could be as simple as sharing a post on social media, but there are also organisations all over the world who are holding events, running campaigns and supporting causes

Day of (No) Silence
2027-04-09 08:00 - 17:00
Day Of Silence is observed every year on the second Friday of April. This observance is led especially by the student community to bring awareness to the bullying of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender students.
It is observed annually on the second Friday of April.
On this particular day, they vow to be silent for the whole day as a symbolic representation of the silencing of the LGBTQ+ community. The day is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
The Day of Silence has been held each year in April since 1996. Since 2011, the event has been held on the second Friday of April, except in 2018, when it was observed on Friday, April 27, 2020, when it was observed on Friday, April 24, 2021, when it was observed on Friday, April 23, and 2022, when it was observed on Friday, April 22.
The Day of Silence is organized by GLSEN. Students are encouraged to obtain permission from their school before organizing the event.
GLSEN states that hundreds of thousands of students at more than 8,000 schools participated in the 2008 Day of Silence.

Lesbian Visibility Day
2027-04-26 00:00 - 23:59
Lesbian Visibility Week is observed from the 25th of April until the 1st of May and was established by West Hollywood Lesbian Visibility Committee with the help of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in California in the year 1990. Lesbian Visibility Day is celebrated on April 26th, and is also known as International Lesbian Day. It was first observed in New Zealand in the 1980’s.
Did you know?
The order of the letters LGBT wasn’t the original order! It used to be GLBT, and was changed due to the impact that lesbians had on the gay community during the AIDS crisis. They supported and cared for them in their time of need and they stood in solidarity against the discrimination they experienced. Due to the increased solidarity, it resulted a rise of feminism in both sides, and thus the order change occurred.

Lesbian Visibility Week - 2027
2027-04-26 00:00 - 2027-05-02 23:59
Lesbian Visibility Week is an annual observance in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries dedicated to increasing the awareness of lesbian women and their issues. It was originally celebrated in July in 1990 in California, and more recently in April, starting with Lesbian Visibility Day on April 26.
The week was coordinated by West Hollywood Lesbian Visibility Committee and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and devoted to raising awareness of lesbian identities and topics and celebrating the lesbian community. The celebration was “a combination of cultural programming, workshops addressing current and impending needs, awards ceremonies, and social events.”[8] The events included film screenings, safe sex discussions, dog shows, marches, and more

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
2027-05-17 08:00 - 17:00
The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) is observed annually on May 17 and aims to coordinate international events that raise awareness of LGBT rights violations and stimulate interest in LGBT rights work worldwide. By 2016 the commemorations had taken place in over 130 countries.
The founders of the International Day Against Homophobia, as it was originally known, established the IDAHO Committee to coordinate grass-roots actions in different countries, to promote the day and to lobby for official recognition on May 17. That date was chosen to commemorate the decision to remove homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1990.

Agender Pride Day
2027-05-19 08:00 - 17:00
May 19th marks Agender Pride Day! To be agender means to not identify as any particular gender. Agender is also called genderblank , genderfree, genderless, gendervoid , non-gendered, ungendered , or null gender . The agender identity falls under the nonbinary umbrella and (sometimes) the transgender umbrella.

Harvey Milk Day
2027-05-22 08:00 - 17:00
Harvey Milk Day is a day to educate your school about an extraordinary leader whose courageous work to end discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in the 1970s set the stage for many of the civil rights advances we see today.
Who was Harvey Milk?
Harvey Milk was an activist, organizer, and the first openly gay man elected to public office in the country as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the late 1970s. Harvey Milk came out and started organizing against discrimination of gay and lesbian business owners in the Castro District of San Francisco, and against the Briggs Initiative (this was an initiative on the California state ballot in 1978 that would have banned gays and lesbians from working in California schools). Milk was responsible for passing gay rights ordinances for the city of San Francisco and served eleven months in office before he was assassinated on November 27, 1978, along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.
We celebrate Harvey Milk Day on his birthday, May 22.

Pansexual and Panromantic Visibility Day
2027-05-24 08:00 - 17:00
24 May is Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day – but what exactly does it mean to be Pan?
To be pansexual is to have a sexual or romantic attraction not limited by gender, or gender identity, while to be panromantic is the same except without the sexual attraction. Attraction is not dependent on gender; pan people are attracted to the person before anything else. However, this doesn’t mean they’re attracted to anyone and everyone!
Though it’s likely that pansexuality has always existed in some form, to some degree, it is surely no coincidence that pansexuality has become more recognised in a modern society where people are able to explore and express their sexuality more openly. We are becoming gradually more aware of the largely socially-constructed nature of binary gender separation, and the fundamental nature of the shared humanity that unites us despite our comparatively superficial differences. Perhaps it’s not too much of a stretch to say that pansexuality reflects this.

Pride Month
2027-06-01 08:00 - 2027-06-30 17:00
Happy Pride Month from the Adirondack North Country Gender Alliance!
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the United States the last Sunday in June was initially celebrated as “Gay Pride Day,” but the actual day was flexible. In major cities across the nation the “day” soon grew to encompass a month-long series of events. Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBTQ Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.

HIV Long-Term Survivor’s Awareness Day
2027-06-05 08:00 - 17:00
HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day (HLTSAD) is celebrated annually on June 5th.
On June 5, 1981, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first cases of what would later be known as AIDS. In the 1990s with the development of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), also known as combination antiretroviral therapy, the life expectancy of people with HIV has increased significantly.
HIV advocate Tez Anderson, who has been living with HIV since 1983, founded HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day on June 5, 2014, to honor long-term survivors of HIV and raise awareness of their needs, health issues, and journeys. According to the CDC, nearly half of people with HIV in the United States are aged 50 or older, and many were diagnosed with HIV in their younger years.
People with HIV are at increased risk of certain comorbidities compared to people of similar age without HIV. Furthermore, people aging with HIV face both age-related and HIV-related stigma. Long-term survivors of HIV may experience complications associated with long-term treatment or exposure to the virus. The toxicity of many early HIV treatments caused life-altering side effects, including lipodystrophy (fat accumulation or wasting). In addition, research has shown that many aging-related conditions occur more frequently in older people with HIV, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, renal disease, and cancer.
Before the development of HAART, most people with HIV died within two years of the onset of AIDS. Recently, researchers found a nine-year difference in overall life expectancy between people with HIV and those without HIV. The difference was smaller (6.8 years) for people with HIV who initiated treatment when they were still healthy, emphasizing the importance of taking HIV medicines as soon as possible after HIV diagnosis. People with HIV who consistently take antiretroviral therapy can achieve an undetectable viral load, which means they cannot transmit HIV to others, a concept known as Undetectable = Untransmittable, or U=U.

Pulse Remembrance Day
2027-06-12 08:00 - 17:00
Pulse Remembrance Day is an annual commemoration day held on June 12 every year.
On this day in 2016, a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killed 49 people and injured 53 others. On this particular day, Pulse was presenting “Latin Night,” a weekly Saturday night event predominantly attended by Latinos. About 320 people were still inside the club, which was serving last-call drinks at around 2:00 a.m. when the horrific incident occurred.

Juneteenth
2027-06-19 00:00 - 23:59
On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. At the stroke of midnight, prayers were answered as all enslaved people in Confederate States were declared legally free. Union soldiers, many of whom were black, marched onto plantations and across cities in the south reading small copies of the Emancipation Proclamation spreading the news of freedom in Confederate States. Only through the Thirteenth Amendment did emancipation end slavery throughout the United States.
But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth,” by the newly freed people in Texas.
The post-emancipation period known as Reconstruction (1865-1877) marked an era of great hope, uncertainty, and struggle for the nation as a whole. Formerly enslaved people immediately sought to reunify families, establish schools, run for political office, push radical legislation and even sue slaveholders for compensation. Given the 200+ years of enslavement, such changes were nothing short of amazing. Not even a generation out of slavery, African Americans were inspired and empowered to transform their lives and their country.
Juneteenth marks our country’s second independence day. Although it has long celebrated in the African American community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to most Americans.
The historical legacy of Juneteenth shows the value of never giving up hope in uncertain times. The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a community space where this spirit of hope lives on. A place where historical events like Juneteenth are shared and new stories with equal urgency are told.

Stonewall Riots Anniversary
2027-06-28 08:00 - 17:00
The Stonewall Riots Anniversary is an annual event that celebrates the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, New York City. It is commemorated on June 28 each year. The Stonewall Riots were a series of violent demonstrations by members of the LGBT community that took place from June 28th to July 3rd of 1969. The riots were spurred by a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. During the raid, police officers physically and verbally abused patrons of the bar, leading to a violent revolt that is widely recognised as the beginning of the modern LGBT rights movement.
Every year, the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots is commemorated with a variety of events and activities. These events often include marches, rallies, and protests in support of LGBT rights, as well as educational panels, workshops, and performances. In addition, many cities throughout the United States and around the world also host their own Stonewall Riots Anniversary events.
The Stonewall Riots Anniversary is an important reminder of the struggles and injustices that members of the LGBT community have faced throughout history and of the progress that has been made in the fight for equal rights and recognition. Each year, the anniversary serves as an opportunity to celebrate the progress that has been made and to continue working towards the furtherance of LGBT rights.

Omnisexual Visibility Day
2027-07-06 08:00 - 17:00
Annually on the 6th July we observe and celebrate Omnisexual Visibility Day while raising awareness to omnisexuality and those who identify as omnisexual. This visibility date hopes to bring further awareness and understanding to the omnisexual community though education, unity and stories around the world on what it means to be omnisexual and cultural difficulties experienced across the globe from omnisexual people.
What is Omnisexual?
People who identify as omnisexual are attracted to those of all gender identities and sexual orientations. Omnisexuality is in the category of multisexuality, which includes people who are attracted to more than one gender. Omnisexual people are often categorised in this group along with those who are bisexual, polysexual, and pansexual.
There’s no one way to identify as omnisexual. Omnisexual and pansexual, which refers to being attracted to people of any gender identity, are often used interchangeably, though there are differences between the two.
Omnisexual people may find their gender identity confused with other sexual orientations in the multisexuality category, and some may feel pressure to conform to a label more familiar to others.

International Non-Binary Day
2027-07-14 08:00 - 17:00
International Non-Binary People’s Day takes place annually on 14 July each year and celebrates and raises awareness of non-binary people, who do not identify within the traditional gender binary. This takes place during non-binary awareness week from Monday 11 July until Saturday 16 July 2022.
Why 14 of July?
The date, celebrated since 2012, was chosen as it falls between International Women’s Day on 8 March and International Men’s Day on 19 November.
What does non-binary mean?
The definition provided by Stonewall (Britain’s leading charity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality) is: “Non-binary is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity doesn’t sit comfortably with ‘man’ or ‘woman’. Non-binary identities are varied and can include people who identify with some aspects of binary identities, while others reject them entirely.
“Non-binary people can feel that their gender identity and gender experience involves being both a man and a woman, or that it is fluid, in between, or completely outside of that binary.”
