SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

With Pride: Celebrating the LGBTQ+ community

Pride Month offers the chance to recognize LGBTQ+ communities worldwide, and celebrate the stories that show these communities’ resilience and diversity. Celebrated every June, Pride Month marks the ongoing struggles for equality for the LGBTQ+ community, and commemorates milestones like the Stonewall Riots — a pivotal event in the struggle for gay rights.

This page, updated in honor of Pride Month 2025 and in support of UN Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10), features content focused on the LGBTQ+ community.

Social and healthcare systems for LGBTQ+ communities

In this blog for Pride Month 2025, Aparna Anantharaman, the Co-Chair of Springer Nature’s SDG 10 Working Group, showcases a selection of publications that highlight the challenges facing the LGBTQ+ community. Research that supports the efforts to achieve equity, inclusion, and justice for all.

To build systems that make LGBTQ+ individuals feel safe, seen, and supported, transformations across every level — daily public life, higher education, mental health, technology development, and clinical research — are essential. Research and publications, like those presented in this blog, pave the way to identifying challenges and achieving progress. And in making these changes, we don’t just improve outcomes for LGBTQ+ individuals — we build stronger and more compassionate systems for all.

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Highlights

New research & key publications

> Explore Pride Month 2025 article & chapter highlights