Michaels: What the Plus?

Find a PFLAG group in your community:

• Find a PFLAG chapter in the US: pflag.org/find-a-chapter
• Find a PFLAG group globally: pflag.org/intlfamilygroups
• Learn more about PFLAG Connects: Communities meetings: pflag.org/connects/communities
• Learn more about the PFLAG Online Community: facebook.com/groups/pflagnational

Visibility Days & Pride Celebrations

The Interex Community

Nonbinary Gender Identities

The Bi+ Umbrella

Asexual & Aromantic Identities

Visibility Days and Pride Celebrations

• Typically the week after Valentine’s Day: Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week
• May 24: Pansexual Visibility Day
• July 14: International Non-Binary People’s Day
• September 26-23: #BiWeek
• September 23: Celebrate Bisexuality Day
• 3rd Wednesday, October: International Pronouns Day
• October 26 Intersex Awareness Day
• Typically the last full week of October: Ace Week
• December 8: Pansexual Pride Day

The Intersex Community

Research: 

• The Intersex Community Faced Significant Barriers and Challenges in 2024
• Providing Ethical and Compassionate Health Care to Intersex Patients
• Fact Sheet: Intersex
• The Body, The Self: The care of people with intersex traits evolves as clinicians and researchers learn more and listen more
• I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me: Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US
• A national study on the physical and mental health of intersex adults in the U.S.

Organizations: 

• InterACT
• Strategy Lab for Intersex Movements
• Interface Project
• InterConnect
• The Intersex Healing Club
• ThisIsIntersex

Books: 

• A Comprehensive Guide to Intersex
• None of the Above
• I Love My Body
• Intersex Diversity
• Nobody Needs to Know

Nonbinary Gender Identities

Research: 

• US Trans Survey
• Diversity of Nonbinary Youth
• Gender Beyond the Binary
• 17th Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey
• Nonbinary LGBTQ Adults in the United States

Organizations: 

• The GenderCool Project
• Black and Beyond the Binary Collective
• Gender Creative Kids
• Gender Diversity
• TYEF
• Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
• Advocates for Transgender Equality
• TransLash
• Trans Lifeline

Books:

• So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
• X Marks the Spot: An Anthology of Nonbinary Experiences
• The Book on Nonbinary Joy
• In Transit: Being Nonbinary in a World of Dichotomies
• Not Him or Her: Accepting and Loving My Nonbinary Child

PFLAG Resources: 

• Our Trans Loved Ones (disponible en espanol)
• the guide to being an ally to trans and nonbinary people
• Leading With Love for People Who Are Trans and Nonbinary
• What’s This? Personal Pronouns

The Bi+ Umbrella

Research:

• Bisexual adults are far less likely than gay men and lesbians to be “out” to the people in their lives
• The Invisible Majority: A Wake-up Call for the Culture, the Dating App Industry and the World

Organizations: 

• Bisexual Resource Center
• Bi.org
• Bisexual Organizing Project
• Bi-Pan Library
• American Institute of Bisexuality
• BiPlus Organizing US
• The Visibility Impact Fund

Books: 

• Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
• It Ain’t Over Til The Bisexual Speaks
• A Guide to Pansexuality
• Fluid: A Guide for People with Flexible Sexuality
• Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual, and M-Spec Men

Asexual and Aromantic Identities

Research: 

• Ace and Aro: Understanding Differences in Romantic Attractions Among Persons Identifying as Asexual
• Asexual Community Survey

Organizations: 

• Asexuality Visibility and Education Network (AVEN)
• Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy (AUREA)
• Asexual Outreach
• Aces & Aros
• The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project (TAAAP)

Books: 

• Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
• The Ace and Aro Relationship Guide
• Ace and Aro Journeys
• How to be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual
• Hopeless Aromantic

Learn More About Straight for Equality Learning Partnerships:

• The 2026 Straight for Equality in the Workplace Catalog: Download this catalog to learn more about all of the workshops currently available through the Straight for Equality in the Workplace learning program.
• The 2026 PFLAG National Partnership Brochure: Download this brochure to learn more about the benefits of partnership with PFLAG National.