Pride Month 2024
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) celebrates Pride Month 2024 by honoring and highlighting the diverse identities, spaces, and contributions of the LGBTQIAP+ community throughout history.
The first Pride march happened on June 28, 1970, honoring the Stonewall Riots in New York City that took place just one year prior. This march was a protest with 3,000-5,000 activists participating. Since 1970, this number has grown exponentially. Pride Month is as much a celebration to increase visibility and honor the impact the LGBTQIAP+ community has had on history as it is an ongoing protest for liberation.
We encourage our community to study, observe, and celebrate the countless and sometimes nameless LGBTQIAP+ people who have contributed to this Institute as well as other communities, organizations, and entities around the world.
STEM Scholar Highlights:
- Dr. Lauren Esposito, (she/her) Co-Founder of Islands & Seas and creator of 500 Queer Scientists
- Dr. Carlos A. Argüelles-Delgado, (they/them), Neutrino Physicist and Assistant Professor in Harvard University’s Physics Department
- Dr. Shawn Hercules, (he/they), Cancer Biologist and Epidemiologist
Take Action
- Attend Pride Worcester events:
- LGBT Asylum Task Force Community Dinner: Monday, June 10, 2024, 6:00-8:00 PM ET
- Gender Roundtable Discussion: Monday, June 17, 2024, 6:30-8:00 PM ET
- Worcester County Pride Pottery Paint Night: Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 6:30-8:30 PM ET
- Movie on the Common – Barbie: Thursday, June 20, 2024, 6:00-10:00 PM ET
- Summer BBQ: Saturday, June 22, 2024, 6:00-8:00 PM ET
- Love Your Labels’ Queer AF 2024 Kickoff: Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 6:00-8:00 PM ET
- Get Involved with and/or donate to Pride Worcester
- Support Safe Homes, Worcester: a program supporting LGBTQIA+ young people between the ages of 14 and 23.
- Support MassEquality, the "leading statewide grassroots advocacy organization working to ensure that everyone across Massachusetts can thrive from cradle to grave without discrimination and oppression based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression."
- Support the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), an organization dedicated to ending oppression and discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression.
- Register to Vote -OR- Check Your Voter Registration
- Everything you need to vote. Vote.org
Read, Watch, Listen, Learn
- Explore the Gordon Library’s LGBTQIAP+ Pride & Culture Library Guide online
- Explore The Stonewall You Know Is a Myth. And That’s O.K.
- Explore Human Rights Campaign’s My Body, My Health online resource
- Explore Social Science Research Network (SSRN)’s Pride Month Hub online
- Explore During Pride Month: Learn to Be an Ally to Transgender People in Your Community online
- Read How to Honor Pride Month Amid Anti-LGBTQ+ Attacks online
- Read The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by Ben Barres
- Read Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World by Frédéric Martel
- Read Gender(s) by Kathryn Bond Stockton
- Read Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell
- Watch East Palace, West Palace (1995) on Freevee
- Watch specials on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)’s Pride Month Collection
- Watch The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) on Amazon Prime
- Listen to the Pride in STEM podcast
- Listen to the She Her Dyke podcast
- Listen to the Nancy podcast
The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME) promotes and oversees all student facing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) learning experiences, programs, services, trainings, and initiatives for WPI.