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Diversity Celebrations Calendar 2025
January
February
- 2/4: Rosa Parks Day
- 2/12: Lantern Festival
- 2/17: President’s Day Holiday
- 2/28 - 3/29: Ramadan
March
Women’s History Month
Gender Equality Month
- 3/5: Ash Wednesday
- 3/21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- 3/31: International Transgender Day of Visibility
April
Celebrate Diversity Month
- 4/11 - 4/17: Black Maternal Health Week
- 4/12 - 4/20: Passover
- 4/14: Vaisakhi
- 4/20: Easter
- 4/16: Blessing of the Hands
June
National Immigrant Heritage Month
- 6/6: Hajj & Eid al-Adha
- 6/19: Juneteenth Holiday
- 6/20: Summer Solstice
July
- 7/4: Independence Day Holiday
August
September
- 9/1: Labor Day Holiday
- 9/22 - 9/24: Rosh Hashana
October
Global Diversity Awareness Month
LGBTQ+ History Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
- 10/1: National Latino Physician Day
- 10/1 - 10/2: Yom Kippur
- 10/6 - 10/13: Sukkot
- 10/11: National Coming Out Day
- 10/13: Indigenous People’s Day
- 10/15: International Pronouns Day
- 10/17 - 10/23: Diwali
November
- 11/1 - 11/2: Day of the Dead
- 11/11: Veteran's Day
- 11/20: Transgender Day of Remembrance
- 11/27: Thanksgiving Holiday
December
- 12/3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- 12/8: Bodhi Day
- 12/12: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
- 12/14 - 12/22: Hanukkah
- 12/21: Winter Solstice
- 12/21 - 1/1/24: Yule
- 12/21: Dongzhi
- 12/21: Soyal
- 12/25: Christmas Holiday
- 12/26 - 1/1: Kwanzaa
Religious Celebrations
The DEI/AR Council is proud to collaborate with BCH and UCSF Spiritual Services on Religious Celebrations.
UCSF Spiritual Care Services provides responsive and respectful spiritual and emotional care to those who desire it. Spiritual Care Services facilitates religious rituals and personal spiritual practices and provides emotional support and exploration of issues that are of meaning and value to patients, their families and loved ones, and UCSF faculty, staff, and students. Chaplains aim to support everyone in their spiritual journeys, whatever paths they may choose – including those who do not hold to any religious affiliation. Given the diversity of the patient population, when requested, chaplains match patients’ cultural, religious, ethnic, and linguistic needs with appropriate Medical Center resources and representatives from community faith traditions.
Calendar of Holy Days
Downloadable Calendar and Factsheets
Heritage Month Factsheets
- Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- Black History Month
- LGBTQ Pride Month
- Latinx Heritage Month - English
- Hoja Informativa Sobre el Mes de la Herencia Latinx
- Native American Heritage Month
- Winter Holy Day Resources