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.
ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN
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. 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.