Seven years of the EGU Pride working group: Progress and challenges.

The EGU pride working group has now been running since the 2019 GA (General Assembly). What began as small social events in 2019 and 2020, developed into an online community in 2021 which has, over the past several years, expanded considerably and become the staging ground for an ever growing list of initiatives and activities conducted by members of the EGU Pride group. The bottom-up nature of the community we have fostered means support and experience are never far away. Through this community driven approach we have successfully overseen many initiatives. These include but are not limited to: real and observable changes at the GA (pronouns on badges, rainbow lanyards) and EGU itself (direct lines to the EDI - Equality, Diversity, Inclusion- Committee and attending to the EDI booth during the General Assembly), hosting of webinars (Equality: Tools and Techniques, Inclusivity in Science), blog posts (Queer Quarterly), and an EGU Pride short course, held since 2023, with new conveners drawn directly from the community each year and new invited speakers.

Since its inception, the EGU Pride group has thrived, and continues to grow, spread awareness of challenges of LGBTQIA+ geoscientists, and make real and positive changes to the scientific community in EGU and outside of the union. Here we will detail each of the initiatives we directed, discuss lessons learned doing these activities, and lay out a plan for the future of the EGU Pride group during and between the GA.