Pride Month
Join ACOG in celebrating Pride Month in June, honoring and celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.
Join ACOG in Celebrating Pride Month
This year, ACOG is observing WorldPride’s 2025 theme, the Fabric of Freedom, which honors the interconnectedness of the diverse and vibrant people who make up the LGBTQ+ community and recognizes that each person represents an irreplaceable part of the whole.
LGBTQ+ ob-gyns bring unique perspectives and experiences to the profession. Ob-gyns also see firsthand the diversity of the patients for whom they provide care, and how the care that they provide to just one patient can help shape the health of entire communities. We want to hear from you about how you have experienced the importance of embracing and integrating diversity within your community and with your patients, and how you care for all of your patients—especially now, when members of the LGBTQ+ community face mounting attacks on their identities and their ability to access care.
To share your thoughts, please email [email protected] with a headshot and short bio to be included for publication on ACOG’s website, in our newsletters, and on social media.
Member Stories
Caring and Campaigning Why Ob-Gyns Must Advocate for LGBTQ Health Equity
Ob-gyn care and advocacy are inseparable, especially as political attacks increasingly target vulnerable groups like LGBTQ+ patients. In our first Pride Month essay of 2025, Ryan Findlay, DO, underscores the urgency for ob-gyn professionals to speak out in defense of their patients’ access to essential care.
GoCreating Safety in Small Symbols
Ob-gyn resident Dr. John Grab reflects on how small visible symbols like a Pride pin or pronoun sticker can foster safety, trust, and belonging in health care. In a profession where support isn't always visible, these quiet cues can speak volumes.
GoThe Pride Flag: Its More Than Just a Sticker
Dr. Harshal Rawtani shares how visibility and small gestures can foster safety and trust for LGBTQ+ patients in health care and why showing up matters.
GoPast Observances
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In 2024, ACOG wanted to hear from members about what the NYC Pride’s theme of Reflect. Empower. Unite. meant to them.
Reimagining Postpartum Care: A Call for Greater Inclusivity – Laer Streeter, MD, MPH
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In June 2023, ACOG sought to hear from members about what the Human Rights Campaign’s theme of Without Exception meant to them.
Transgender Care: How Family Inspiration Led to Professional Reimagination – Pamela St. Amand, MD, FACOG
Why Transgender Representation and Inclusion Matter – Laer Streeter, MD, MPH
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In recent years, the world demanded unthinkable resilience, bravery, and strength from the LGBTQIA+ community—and the community demonstrated these traits in spades. During Pride Month 2023, ACOG celebrated that resilience and recognized that for LGBTQIA+ people to survive and thrive in the face of social and legislative oppression, access to respectful, inclusive, and comprehensive health care was absolutely essential.
Members were invited to share their thoughts on the importance of access to and provision of inclusive, respectful health care for the LGBTQIA+ community—and how they had contributed to that history of care as community members or allies.Member Stories
Reducing Health Care Disparities for LGBTQ+ Patients – Jessie Chen, MD
Finding and Offering a Safe Space for the LGBTQ+ Community – Reid Gamble, DO, MA
Learning Never Stops: How New Perspectives Can Help Improve Patient Care – Sara Ali, MD
Diversity and LGBTQ+ Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Are We Finally Waking Up? – Mark B. Woodland, MS, MD, FACOG