My thoughts on beg a gay mathematician.
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ON ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ AND LEARNG MATH
See a recent post on Tumblr om @h0neyjaehyun about when-you're-gay-and-dumb-and-n't-do-math. Disver more posts about when-you're-gay-and-dumb-and-n't-do-math. * when you're gay and can't do math *
Browsg through the Teachg Tolerance archiv, I recently me across an olr blog post on movg beyond the phrase “That’s so gay. When a math problem proved difficult to solve, she often rpond to my explanatns wh “That’s so gay, ” rated om time to time wh other choice remarks.
I began to take a firmer stance, explag that g the word gay a disparagg way is disrpectful and hurtful to everyone, and particularly to LGBT people. LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. Mathematics is mathematics, after all— isn’t male or female, whe or black, or gay or straight.
ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN
Growg up gay ral Ontar durg the 1980s was an isolatg experience culturally, although did give me lots of time to thk and helped foster my creativy. I had two queer iends (one gay the other lbian) and we kept to ourselv and rarely talked about our sexualy wh fay or iends for fear of rejectn. I knew of one gay profsor at the Universy: the late Jam Stewart, the thor of the famo Calcul text.