Pride Month 2025
The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME) celebrates Pride Month 2025 by honoring and highlighting the identities, advocacy, spaces, and contributions of the LGBTQIAP+ community throughout history.
The first Pride march happened on June 28, 1970, in honor of the New York City Stonewall Riots that took place just one year prior. About 3,000 to 5,000 activists participated in the original Pride march. 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:
- Professor Lynn Conway, she/her, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Dr. Ajay Jagadeesh, he/him, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology
- Dr. Elise (Zoe Elisa) Clapacs, she/they, Biomedical Engineering, Immunology & Endocrinology
Take Action
- Attend events:
- WPI LGBTQIAP+ Employee Resource Group Pride Event: TBD
- Shrewsbury Pride 5K: Saturday, June 7, 9:00am ET
- Worcester Art Museum Free Day – Pride Celebration: Sunday, June 8, 10:00am-4:00pm ET
- Intersecting Identities: Confronting Hate Against Queer South Asians: Thursday, June 12, 6:00-7:00pm ET
- Movie on the Common – The Wizard of Oz, Youth Pride Night: Thursday, June 12, 6:00-10:00pm ET
- Rocky Horror Picture Show with Shadowcasting by Teseracte Players: Friday, June 13, 9:00pm ET
- Studio Theatre Worcester presents At the Wedding: June 20-29
- Makeup Application 101: Saturday, June 21, 10:00-11:30am ET
- The Best Little Drag Brunch in Worcester: Sunday, June 29, 12:00-2:00pm ET
- Pride Storytime: Weekly on Fridays, 1:00-2:00pm 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 ODIME’s LGBTQIAP+ Student Support website to learn about offerings that support our inclusive community
- Explore the Gordon Library’s Inclusive Excellence LibGuide and LGBTQIAP+ Pride Collection online
- Explore The Stonewall You Know Is a Myth. And That’s O.K.
- Explore Human Rights Campaign’s online resources, including My Body, My Health
- 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 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 Paris is Burning (1990) on HBO Max
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Watch East Palace, West Palace (1995) on Amazon Prime
- Watch The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) on Amazon Prime
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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 student-facing learning experiences, programs, services, trainings, and initiatives for WPI.
