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Guide:Date serves as a guide for formatting pages on Date identities on this Wikia. Please use it as an example when creating and editing pages. A simple blurb about this date goes here, that explains this date in a sentence or two. Template:Date should be used. Check the Date category for examples of filled out pages.

Alternate Names

  • If this date is called by any other names, put them here. Preferably, these should be names that are either used by the person/organization that established this date, or are provably wildly used by the surrounding community.

Definitions

  • Text goes here. Put the original text used when coining here. - Person who coined, year

If there are succinct definitons for this date available somewhere, those can be put here. (Good places to find those definitions are Urban Dictionary, and LGBTQ+ websites like GLAAD.)

Another line of text can go here, discussing the purpose of this date. (Example: If it's a day of mourning, what's the intentions according to the people who established it?)

History

Things specific to how this date came to be a celebrated thing go here. (Were there Tumblr posts discussing how (identity) needed more awareness? Did people in a specific location somewhere band together to try to establish this?)

You can also discuss how this date has "grown" if it's relevant - How many people were recorded to celebrate this last year? How many Tweets were made about this? Etc.

Community

Examples of people speaking about this date, talking about celebrating it, statistics of how many people attended parades relevant to the date if there are any (etc) go here. This section is flexible, and can discuss any number of things that relate to the community that surrounds this date. Subsections can be added/removed as needed to discuss the community.

Recognition

In what ways is this date recognized? Some locations recognize LGBTQ+ dates as official holidays or otherwise significant events. Are there large LGBTQ+ organizations that post about this date every year? Have hashtags related to this date trended on Twitter or other websites?

Controversy

If there's been a specific variety of (related identity)-phobic discourse that has led to discrediting it (examples being pan, ace, etc) or if the related identity is potentially genuinely harmful (quasihomo, super, etc), please detail that here.

Related Dates

  • If there are similar dates that aren't directly related (ex, a visibility day for another mspec identity might fit here on the page for a bi visibility day) put links to each here (with no description).

Gallery

Creation

Any screenshots related to original discussions of celebrating this date, if there are any, go here. If nothing, leave blank.

Other

Any other kind of image (symbols associated with the date, people waving pride flags at a celebration, merchandise with flags, images used to promote awareness of the date, aesthetic edits, even fanart of characters celebrating the date, etc) go here. If nothing, leave blank.

Sources

Citations for information above are gathered here. The web archive is suggested, to make sure links don't break. Here's a huge list of acceptable sources.

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