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Pink Shirt Day
February 28
Pink Shirt Day is recognized annually in Canada on the last Wednesday of February.
A collective act of kindness started Pink Shirt Day in 2007. Seeing a grade 9 boy being bullied for wearing pink, two Nova Scotia high school students organized a “pink protest,” encouraging fellow students to wear pink and distributing pink tank tops, headbands, and wristbands to show solidarity. News of the “pink protest” spread, and today, Pink Shirt Day is now celebrated in countries worldwide. For some institutions and communities, Pink Shirt Day is an opportunity to address bullying motivated by homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia. The day has become a broader call for the elimination of all forms of bullying, discrimination, and harassment.