Founded | 2016 |
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Founders | Alfredo Carpineti, Chris Carpineti, Matt Young |
Legal status | Charitable trust |
Website | prideinstem |
Pride in STEM is a UK-based charity supporting LGBT+ scientists internationally, co-founded in 2016 [1] [2] by Alfredo Carpineti, a senior staff writer and space correspondent at IFLScience, [3] [4] his husband Chris, and Matt Young, a researcher at the University of Nottingham. [1] Its origins, prior to registration as a charitable trust, were as a marching group for the parade at Pride in London. [5] Ben Britton, one of the organisation's trustees, wrote in 2019 that the organisation's "informal mantra is to queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces". [6] "STEM" is an acronym for "science, technology, engineering and maths/medicine". [1]
The organisation organises a series of events called "Out Thinkers", first held in 2016, [7] at which LGBT+ scientists discuss their life and work. [8] Events in the series have been held at the British Science Festival, [9] at Imperial College London, [10] at the Science Museum, London, and at the Cambridge Science Festival. [8] The first international Out Thinkers event was held in 2018. [7]
They were responsible, along with two other British Isles-based organisations, for organising the first LGBTSTEM Day, which was held on 5 July 2018, [11] [12] which promotes visibility and awareness of LGBT+ people in the sciences. [13] The event was supported by the Royal Astronomical Society, Institute of Physics, [11] and the Royal Society of Chemistry. [14]
The following year, nine groups (including Pride in STEM) were involved in organising the day, again on 5 July, with fifty organisations reported to be supporting it. [15] In 2020, the day will instead be held on 18 November, to mark the 60th anniversary of astronomer Frank Kameny's petition to the United States Supreme Court, in a case prompted by his dismissal from the US Army as a result of his sexual orientation. [16]
Pride in STEM has marched as part of Pride in London's march in 2016, 2017, 2018 [17] and 2019. [18]
In 2017, the organisation was nominated for the Barbara Burford Gay Times Honour for excellence in STEM. [19]
The journal Nature announced its support for the organisation in 2019. [20]
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