Polyamory in the News: Happy Polyamory Day! Share it out

November 23, 2025

Happy Polyamory Day! Share it out

Polyamory Day is celebrated every November 23rd around the world by people who consider themselves to be polyamorous, who are in polyamorous relationship(s), or who support polyamory as a valid relationship orientation or choice.

On November 23rd, we ask: If you agree that polyamorous people are entitled to the same relationship rights, privileges, and governmental accommodation as others, please share a Polyamory Day image or meme on your social media, mailing lists, and blogs.

In addition to the graphic above, lots more to choose from are in the Polyamory Day Image Gallery.

And here are many more.

Also, the graphic above

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So why November 23 every year?

The backstory:

For years people floated ideas for an appropriate Polyamory Day, but nothing happened. Then in 2017 the Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association (CPAA) took the initiative by declaring, with a press release, that November 23 would be National Polyamory Day in Canada, and the idea spread. In 2018 they repeated it not just for Canada but worldwide. It spread further in the next several years.

November 23 is the day when, in 2011, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge ruled that Canada's anti-polygamy law does not apply to modern polyamorists, if they do not try to make a group relationship into a formally sanctioned group marriage (polygamy). Previously, according to the law, three or more people living together in one dwelling "conjugally" could be sentenced to five years in prison. No prosecution had been brought for many decades, but the threat was there awaiting any hostile actor or change in the winds. The CPAA worked to make the favorable court ruling happen.