A Brief History and Appreciation of Pansexuality (and Symbols) The term pansexual, or rather, pansexualism, first appeared in 1914 in the days of Sigmund Freud. Contrary to popular opinion, the term was coined by one of Freud’s scholarly critics, J. Victory Haderman, in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. In its early days, pansexualism did not…
End Inequality. End AIDS. End Pandemic. What is World AIDS Day? World AIDS Day is the first, and longest-running, global health day ever founded in 1988 by World Health Organization public officers James Bunn and Thomas Netter. Its goal is to raise international awareness for HIV/AIDS and to honor the 40 million people who have…
National Coming Out Day, courtesy of Ekaterina Minaeva Be loud. Be proud. Be you! It’s National Coming Out Day! Similar to Pride Month in June, National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an annual LGBTQ+ awareness day observed on October 11 to encourage and support individuals to “come out (of the closet).” The day celebrates the…