[1] Queer scientists submit short descriptions of their lives to the organization; these are manually checked and proof-read before being posted to the group's website.

[2] In collating submissions, the organization intends to show queer people currently working in science that there are others like them, to provide role models for future generations of researchers, and to create a database that can be used when planning events to ensure representation.

[3] The group was founded in San Francisco on 4 June 2018,[1] by Lauren Esposito, an arachnology professor at the California Academy of Sciences[4] and Sean Vidal Edgerton, a science illustrator and evolutionary virologist at the academy.

[5] In the press release announcing its foundation, the organization referenced, as part of its motivation, a 2016 paper in the Journal of Homosexuality[6] that found that, in 2013, more than 40% of respondents to a survey who identified as LGBTQ+ had not revealed that they were to their colleagues.

[8] The site had over 900 profiles by July 2019;[9] in that month, the group was involved in organizing the second LGBTSTEM Day.