LGBTQ+ History Month
October 2026
Event times are shown in Pacific time.
LGBTQ+ History Month, observed each October in the United States, celebrates the lives, achievements, and struggles of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and strengthens understanding of their history.
Equality Forum, Family Equality, PBS, Egale Canada, and ILGA-Europe are offering free video biographies, live virtual peer support and webinars, documentaries, recorded webinars, and podcast episodes, and the LGBT National Help Center offers a free peer-support helpline, for community members, families, educators, and allies.
Equality Forum
Equality Forum is a national LGBTQ civil rights organization based in Philadelphia that created LGBT History Month and each year honors 31 icons, one for each day of October.
On-Demand Resources
31 Icons Biography Video Series
Type: Video Series (31 biographies)
Each October day brings a new short biography video honoring an LGBT icon, living or dead, selected for achievements in their field. Earlier videos remain available as the month goes on.
Access: https://www.lgbthistorymonth.com/ · https://lgbthistorymonth.com/icon-selection
Family Equality
Family Equality is a national organization that supports LGBTQ+ people building and raising families, offering free virtual peer support spaces and webinars.
Virtual Events & Meetings
Financing Your Family-Building Journey
This free webinar from the Paths to Pregnancy series for LGBTQ+ individuals and couples addresses costs, working with cryobanks, and financial preparation, with presenters Eduardo Cervantes of California Cryobank and Brandon Clark, CPA, of Toler Financial Group.
Time: Thursday, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
Date(s): Thursday, October 15, 2026
Format: Virtual
Platform: Zoom — https://familyequality.org/event/financing-your-family-building-journey/
Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Non-Conforming Parents Meetup
This biweekly peer support space welcomes any parent or caregiver who identifies as transgender, non-binary, gender nonconforming, or anywhere on the genderqueer spectrum.
Time: Wednesday, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
Date(s): Wednesday, October 7 and Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Format: Virtual
Platform: Zoom — https://familyequality.org/event/biweekly-trans-non-binary-and-gender-non-conforming-parents-meetup-5/2026-10-07/ · https://familyequality.org/event/biweekly-trans-non-binary-and-gender-non-conforming-parents-meetup-5/2026-10-21/
Trying to Conceive Peer Support Space
This biweekly, community-run peer support space is for LGBTQ+ individuals working to create children through fertility and conception.
Time: Wednesday, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST
Date(s): Wednesday, October 14 and Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Format: Virtual
Platform: Zoom — https://familyequality.org/event/biweekly-trying-to-conceive-peer-support-space-14/2026-10-14/ · https://familyequality.org/event/biweekly-trying-to-conceive-peer-support-space-14/2026-10-28/
PBS
PBS is the United States’ public television service, and its member stations produce local and national programs on LGBTQ+ history and culture.
On-Demand Resources
The Pursuit
Type: Video
Duration: 56 minutes, 50 seconds
This WHYY special reflects on the fight for LGBT rights more than 50 years after protesters gathered in front of Independence Hall, examining both progress and ongoing challenges. It streams free on pbs.org and the PBS app, with closed captions.
Access: https://www.pbs.org/video/whyy-specials-pursuit/
Mustache Mondays
Type: Video
Duration: 53 minutes, 45 seconds
This Artbound film looks at a long-running LGBTQ night club event in Los Angeles that became a creative incubator for leading contemporary artists, and how such spaces shaped queer cultural identity in Southern California. It streams free, with closed captions.
Access: https://www.pbs.org/video/mustache-mondays-jhbyes/
Egale Canada
Egale Canada is a national organization that works to eliminate homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of oppression through research, education, and legal advocacy for 2SLGBTQI people.
On-Demand Resources
Trans Inclusion in Sport: Evidence, Equity, and Policy Considerations
Type: Recorded Webinar
This free recorded webinar examines the evidence, equity questions, and policy considerations around trans inclusion in sport.
Understanding & Countering Misinformation, Disinformation, & Malinformation
Type: Recorded Webinar
This free recorded webinar helps participants understand and counter harmful misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.
Access: https://egale.ca/awareness/mdm-webinar/
Understanding and Supporting 2SLGBTQI Experiences with Dementia
Type: Recorded Webinar
This free recorded webinar explores the experiences of 2SLGBTQI people living with dementia and how to support them.
Access: https://egale.ca/awareness/2slgbtqi-dementia-webinar/
Bold Leadership in Uncertain Times: 2SLGBTQI Inclusion
Type: Podcast Episode
Mackenzie Kolton of Egale Canada discusses bold leadership for 2SLGBTQI inclusion in schools as equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts face mounting resistance, built on courage to act, purposeful vision, and accountability with humility.
Access: https://egale.ca/awareness/bold-leadership-in-uncertain-times-podcast/
ILGA-Europe
ILGA-Europe is a European organization advocating for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex people.
On-Demand Resources
The Frontline Podcast
Type: Podcast (21 episodes)
Conversations with activists and experts on LGBTI activism, human rights, and social justice across Europe, with episodes such as “How Pride Became Democracy’s Front Line,” “Defending rights in hostile times,” and “Intersectionality in the LGBTI movement.”
Access: https://www.ilga-europe.org/category/podcast/
General & Cross-Cutting Resources
Crisis & Immediate Support
LGBT National Help Center — https://lgbthotline.org/national-hotline/ · Free, confidential peer support by phone at 1-888-843-4564, Monday to Friday 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM and Saturday 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM PST, with a youth talkline, a senior hotline, and online peer-support chat.
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