Please join Spectrum, the Lab’s LRG for the LGBTQ+ community, in marching in the Aurora and Chicago Pride Parades this June. All employees are welcome to join us on Sunday, June 11, in the Aurora Pride Parade and then on Sunday, June 25, in the Chicago Pride Parade. If you would like to join us, please register here (Service login required). Details on the time and location to meet on the day of the parades will be announced as it gets…
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This summer, members of Fermilab’s LGBTQ+ community represented the lab in the Chicago and Aurora Pride Parades for the first time.
Fermilab participants wave and carry the custom made banner in the 2022 Chicago Pride Parade.
Fermilab participants gather for a group photo after the Chicago Pride Parade.
In honor of LGBTQ+ Pride month, the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Spectrum will co-host LGBTQ+ Safe Zone training on Friday, June 24, from 1-2:30 p.m., CT. An interactive presentation created especially for the Fermilab community by the Spectrum LRG on creating welcoming and inclusive spaces. The focus is placed on using language accepted within the LGBTQ+ community and how we can all foster an environment of understanding, acceptance and equality. Presenters of this workshop are Fermilab employees…
A group of U.S. national laboratories, including Fermilab; publishers; journals and other organizations, is making it easier for researchers to update their names on past publications.
From the New York Times, July 28, 2021: On Wednesday, a group of laboratories including Fermilab and major scientific publishers, announced an agreement that aims to simplify the process of applying new names to old papers for transgender scientists by shifting much of the administrative labor from the researcher to the laboratory.
From NBC News, July 28, 2021: Read more about how Fermilab is committed to the effort to help reduce barriers for trans researchers, coordinated by Berkeley Lab. This new partnership was announced Wednesday among all of the Department of Energy’s 17 U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals and other organizations in scientific publishing that will streamline the name change request process in past published papers for researchers.
Name changes allow researchers of all genders to own their academic work.
Elena Long’s search for community as a trans scientist put her at the forefront of LGBT+ advocacy in physics.