LGBTQ+ ERG | Pride Month 2026
By mollye@slac.st…
Pride March & Social
June 2, 2026 – Tuesday – 12-2pm
SUSB Main Entrance & Main Quad
SLAC's fifth annual Pride March is happening on Tuesday, June 2 from 12-2pm. We will begin the march in the front of SUSB Building (B053), then proceed around a predetermined path and end the celebration on the Main Quad. We're bringing back the chalk drawing activity from last year-during a few designated stops along the march route we will "stop & chalk".
Lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
All SLAC employees are invited to attend and show their support for the LGBTQ+ community.
Queer+ Connect Monthly Lunch
June 10, 2026 – Wednesday – 12-1pm
B53, Almanor conference room, 3rd floor room 3002
Members of the LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group welcome you to bring your lunch and enjoy a casual monthly meetup in person. The event is open to all employees.
For more information, see the calendar event & flyer here: LGBTQ+ ERG | Queer+ Connect, a casual monthly lunch meetup | SLAC Today
Rainbow Reels movie screening
June 18, 2026 – Thursday – 12pm
B53, Trinity conference room, 1st floor room 1350
- Flowers | an LGBTQ Short Film (award winning) – 20 minutes
- Story Corps LGBTQ+ Voices to Honor This Pride Month
- Lucky Fish PROJECT UNLONELY FILMS - 8 minutes
Two Asian-American teenagers meet in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant while having dinner with their families
https://www.artandhealing.org/short-film/lucky-fish/
- Sew Into You | a queer short film – 11 minutes
A widowed older woman seeks guidance from her younger queer coworker to ask out a woman for the first time.
https://youtu.be/ya8blp8zs_w?si=vy_AzkZAyPWTB_1C
- LGBTQ Short Film | Odd Bird – 9 minutes
As a boy, Clark always felt like the odd bird in his conservative ranch family. To cope, he created a comic book, "The Adventures of Odd Bird," making himself the hero of his own story. Now 19, a publisher is interested in his work and Clark needs to return home to get the comic manuscript...and tell his mom his truth. Clark fears once he tells her he's gay, he won't be welcome there again
https://youtu.be/AGGz_IgVbLY?si=JaPNLhYyaZe51Utc
- Award Winning Queer short film | Waste Time: A Complicated Love Story – 8 minutes
Through a series of intimate vignettes, we follow a queer couple , a Black woman and an Indian woman, as they experience the beauty and fragility of love. From the spark of their first date to the quiet tenderness of their first kiss, and finally, the ache of their first fight, their story unfolds in fragments of memory and emotion. The film culminates in a music-driven sequence where one woman reflects on what was lost and questions whether love is worth returning to. Blending narrative cinema with music video elements, this short explores the rhythm of heartbreak, memory, and rediscovery through a deeply personal lens.
https://youtu.be/cstDzuUnl-M?si=nSEXSa_1n2A2hjRy
SLAC Reads
Before We Were Trans
July 1, 2025 – Tuesday – 12-1pm
B53, Toluca conference room, 4th floor room 4002 or Zoom
Join us for a book-club style discussion in honor of Pride month. Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Trans historian and activist Kit Heyam transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.
Library/ Free Book Resources:
- Boundless: https://www.boundless-app.com/
- Libby: https://libbyapp.com/interview/welcome#doYouHaveACard
- Find your local public library - https://www.library.ca.gov/branches/
- Stanford Libraries: https://library.stanford.edu/
- Spotify Audiobook (Access with listening hours, Premium subscription required): https://www.spotify.com/us/audiobooks/
Lunch provided in person.
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A note on participation and time-charging during normally scheduled work hours: Supervisors are encouraged to participate and allow their employees to participate in community activities as operations permit. Employees should charge their usual PA since the activities provide value to SLAC. However, if a particular project requires work to be backfilled during this time, a separate PA number might be required. For employees who are part of a service center, they should charge their shop’s UDT (undistributed time) code. For exceptions or complex charging situations, reach out to your business manager.
