COMPANY NAME: 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

Nonbinary Gender Identities

The Bi+ Umbrella

Asexual & Aromantic Identities

The Interex Community

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

Nonbinary Gender Identities

Research: 

• 2015 US Trans Survey
• Diversity of Nonbinary Youth
• Gender Beyond the Binary
• 15th Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey

Organizations: 

• Gender Spectrum
• Gender Diversity
• National Center for Transgender Equality
• TransLash

Books:

• Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
• They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities
• The Gender Book
• Gender Diversity and Nonbinary Inclusion in the Workplace

PFLAG Resources: 

• Our Trans Loved Ones (disponible en espanol)
• the guide to being a trans ally
• Nonbinary Resources
• What’s This? Personal Pronouns

The Bi+ Umbrella

Research: 

• Invisible Majority: The Disparaties Facing Bisexual People and How to Remedy Them 
• A Closer Look: Bisexual Transgender People
• Bisexual adults are far less likely than gay men and lesbians to be “out” to the people in their lives 

Organizations: 

• Bisexual Resource Center
• American Institute of Bisexuality
• Bisexual Organizing Project
• Bi.org

Books: 

• Claiming the B in LGBT
• A Guide to Pansexuality
• Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, Second Edition
• Bisexual and Pansexual Identities: Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation
• Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution

PFLAG Resources: 

• Something to Talk About Live – July 2, 2020
• Something to Talk About Live – March 4, 2021
• Something to Talk About Live – September 23, 2021
• Something to Talk About Live – March 10, 2022
• 3 Steps to Being a Better Ally to People Who Are Bi+

Asexual and Aromantic Identities

Research: 

• 1.7% of sexual minority adults identify as asexual
• Ace and Aro: Understanding Differences in Romantic Attractions Among Persons Identifying as Asexual
• Asexual Community Survey

Organizations: 

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

Books: 

• Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
• How to be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual
• The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
• Understanding Asexuality

PFLAG Resources: 

• Something to Talk About Live – February 11, 2021
• Something to Talk About Live – February 24, 2022
• 3 Steps to Being a Better Ally to People Who Are Ace/Aro

The Intersex Community

Research: 

• 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
• Intersex Campaign for Equality
• #4Intersex

Books: 

• XOXY: A Memoir
• A Comprehensive Guide to Intersex
• The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex
• Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

PFLAG Resources: 

• PFLAG Policy Statement
• Something to Talk About Live: October 21, 2021
• 3 Steps to Being a Better Ally to People Who Are Intersex