This topic stems from iNaturalist Pride Month 2021 blog post , and is a place for LGBTQIA+ members of the iNaturalist community and their allies to share and discuss their experiences on iNat or in the broader naturalist/STEM community. It can be difficult to share these stories, positive or negativ…

Happy Pride everyone! The world is only more beautiful with everyone and everything in it. Many of the friends I’ve made through iNat are LGBTQIA+ and my life & outdoor adventures are that much better because of it. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: [Nature rainbow]

While we’re sharing pretty stuff, look, a new one! [2698-original] For those curious: there is a lot of history behind pride flags and the colors included. I’d recommend checking out the Wikipedia article here The newer colors here are light blue / white / pink, which are the trans flag colours.…

Ha, thanks! I was only using my photos & I wanted to have a diversity of taxa for each color - but there are not a lot of blue species around me, so when trying to think of other blue arthropods I remembered the isopod virus & knew I had a photo of it! :laughing: I also love that the two blue butte…

Blue butterflies are always so beautiful, especially silver studded blues (in the UK)

:rainbow_flag: :transgender_flag: happy pride y’all! :transgender_flag: :rainbow_flag:

I’m definitely interested! That would be so great to have a space for all of us to connect and even work together. :))

I updated the logo from one we previously had to make sure to represent black, brown, and trans folks, who are often not represented in the queer community! I’m typically not a fan of big corporations turning their logos rainbow but I don’t mind for iNat, especially because this is something importa…

Happy Pride, y’all! :rainbow_flag: Honored to have been able to share my story in the blog post. As a young queer brown kid into nature, I never saw someone who looked like me growing up. It’s still scary putting myself out there, but I hope that even if one person sees someone like them and realiz…

I wasn’t going to post this on the thread, but was advised it would not be wrong - HIV has also devastated many areas in Africa (men using prostitutes). I’ve read of some villages where there are basically no men left - they died of HIV. Women have often been left to keep families alive. One of the…

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Thank you very much. Happy to be here~

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