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Contents:
- GAY THE AMY
- WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS
- ARE AMICS DISPROPORTNATELY GAY?
- ARE PROFSORS DISPROPORTNATELY GAY?
- IS DEKU GAY? THE MANGA STAR’S SEXUALY EXPLAED
- EXPERIENC OF TORS WHO INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL
GAY THE AMY
Lus Lixski shar his experienc as a gay man amia and reflects on how they have helped his reer * gay in academia *
Before we get to the nty-grty of this article, we want to make clear that this piece is wrten om the perspective of two cis gay men and anyone readg this should realize that our experienc are not universal.
We e the term LGBTQ+ to refer to anyone who intifi as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans or tersex, or anyone who is sexually and/or genr diverse. This n be to people of the oppose sex or genr (heterosexual), same sex or genr (homosexual), both sex or genrs (bisexual), more than one sex or genr (pansexual) or lack of sexual attractn to any sex or genr (asexual).
In most of my plac of work, I have, at some pot, experienced some form of discrimatn, whether is the form of explic verbal homophobic abe or as more subtly disguised “microaggrsns” (mon, brief rogatory and negative verbal and behavural munitns that create a hostile environment for an dividual bee they are part of a stigmatized group).
WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS
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In addn to this, over 40% of rponnts felt that they were expected to “not act too gay” and around 30% felt prsured to stay closeted (Figure 2). Such ments rerce the notn that beg straight (and mascule) is the norm and beg gay or feme is viant, wrong and should be supprsed.
Fally, LGBTQ+ awarens trag should be enuraged, particularly for staff management posns, to better equip staff to speak out agast homophobia and transphobia. Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and sexually/genr diverse (LGBTQ+) dividuals have long been unrreprented science, technology, engeerg and mathematics (STEM) and the environments have often been portrayed as spac which personal inty do not matter.
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ARE AMICS DISPROPORTNATELY GAY?
I learned that my experience is jt that − my experience − and is not for me to label othersI like my own label: I am a gay man. I learned to embrace my ner (and clichéd) fabulonsClichés abound about LGBTIQ+ behavur: lbians are great at DIY, gays are terrific drsers and so on. I n e sarstic humour (hello, gay cliché, and textbook armour – see above) to troduce levy class and bee a more effective munitor.
ARE PROFSORS DISPROPORTNATELY GAY?
Out STEM and the US Natnal Organizatn of Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals ntue to do important work to nnect for LGBTQ scientists.
Bergmann said that durg her early years at UC Berkeley, a gay lleague utned her om g out before she was up for tenure, but that when the time me, she no longer felt was an issue.
After growg up North Carola, where he faced homophobia and threats of vlence as a gay teen, Anrson said an email that he moved to the Bay Area bee of s “large, vibrant, edgy and active gay muny. ” He said he was spired by gay role mols STEM such as Jay Keaslg and Carolyn Bertozzi, who showed him “ is possible to be gay and succsful, ” he said an email. Dpe the liberal environment of the Bay Area, Anrson said he observ a lack of gay male profsors and, more generally, LGBTQ+ profsors the College of Engeerg.
IS DEKU GAY? THE MANGA STAR’S SEXUALY EXPLAED
“My gay experience shap my thoughts on issu of diversy more than any other aspect of my life, and this equently tersects my work duti, ” Anrson said an email. The study ‘Systemic equali for LGBTQ profsnals STEM’ published January 2021 Science Advanc Journal, pots out that “more diverse groups of problem solvers offer more creative, productive and fact-based scientific and technil novatns than more homogeneo teams. Suggts strongly that I am gay, I have nohels been asked if I was [heterosexually] married on every sgle on-mp terview that I have ever had.
Notg that the small town lacked a gay bar, she offered up the var mp bathrooms that were known for their gay male cisg as an alternative. It ma me wonr if she actually nsired that statg that the only viable optn for gay men the town was anonymo sex near dirty urals was “sellg her universy. ”A new study makg wav among LGBTQ-foced amics lends empiril crence to the inic Act Up -founr’s priful claims — not to the supposed sweepg superry of gay men, rather to the more narrow assertn that this group is remarkably cled to excel the paper, which was published the Amerin Soclogil Review on Feb.
Courty Amy LevJoel Mtleman, a Universy of Notre Dame soclogist and the paper’s sole thor, found that on an array of amic measur, gay mal outperform all other groups on average, across all major racial groups. Conversely, he nclud that lbians perform more poorly school overall and that Black gay women have a much lower llege graduatn rate than their whe unterparts.
EXPERIENC OF TORS WHO INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL
“This article is focg a lens on what we do to all kids, ” Lisa Diamond, a psychology profsor at the Universy of Utah, said of the societal prsur that appear to impe lbians school even as the strsors possibly unnerve gay mal to pensatg for homophobia through amic strivg.
The three surveys of Amerin adults nsistently dited that gay men are far more likely than straight men to have graduated om high school or llege, wh jt over half of gay men havg earned a llege gree, pared wh about 35 percent of straight men. Mtleman found that gay men’s nsirably higher levels of tnal attament hold even after takg to acunt differenc men’s race and birth horts. What’s more, gay men’s llege graduatn rate dramatilly bts even that of straight women, about one-third of whom have a bachelor’s longudal survey showed that pared wh their straight male peers, gay mal earned higher GPAs high school and llege, enrolled harr class, took school more serly, had more amilly md iends and had a much lower rate of ever droppg out for a month or more.