Natnal Organizatn of Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals (NOGLSTP) - Career Center

Contents:

• MR. JT GAY
• WHY GAY ENGEERS MAKE THE ENGEERG INDTRY A BETTER PLACE
• NATNAL ORGANIZATN OF GAY AND LBIAN SCIENTISTS AND TECHNIL PROFSNALS (NOGLSTP)
• SYNONYMS FOR GAY ENGEER
• QUEER & NERDY: WHY YOUR STARTUP SHOULD HIRE A GAY VELOPER

MR. JT GAY

Meyer is days, engeers and the anizatns that employ them may accept the need to diversify the profsn terms of race, genr, relign, and physil abili, but sexual orientatn remas a prickly topic�wns the recent ntroversy over gay marriage the U. He rells male classmat engeerg school jokg about gays ont of him, obliv to his sexual orientatn. Thgs might be tougher for gay men engeerg, a profsn that is tradnally "whe, male, and nservative, " Meyer says, bee "gay [men] are stereotypilly nsired feme and weak and more to artsy stuff.

WHY GAY ENGEERS MAKE THE ENGEERG INDTRY A BETTER PLACE

C., advocy anizatn for the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr (GLBT) muny, attus are shiftg. " Many high-tech employers, for example, now clu gays and lbians their diversy 's still room for improvement, though. In the HRC x, most of the tech employers that offer benefs to gays (such as health-re verage for domtic partners) still don't clu transgenred dividuals their equal-employment polici.

Workplace, as society, gays and lbians are not yet regnized as a group that serv benefs and legal protectn. "It is still legal 36 stat to fire employe who are gay, " says Daryl Herrschaft, puty director of HRC's WorkNet, a program that provis up-to-date rmatn on workplace polici and laws throughout the Uned Stat. " Even though she hadn't seen overt discrimatn, she didn't tell -workers she was a lbian, bee she didn't feel that most people were aware of, and fortable wh, gay and lbian today are much more acceptg of the GLBT muny, Icenogle says.

NATNAL ORGANIZATN OF GAY AND LBIAN SCIENTISTS AND TECHNIL PROFSNALS (NOGLSTP)

"Icenogle is now chair of Lucent's GLBT support group, where gay employe n raise workplace issu of tert to them. To ensure that other nongay employe bee faiar wh GLBT issu, Icenogle suggts that pani clu sexual orientatn their diversy trag programs, as well as provi workshops and talks on gay issu for all employe and their fai and social attus regardg sexualy change, employers will evably have to adapt. "Younger people are more aware of their sexualy, and are g out more and more, " not Barbara Belmont, treasurer of the Natnal Organizatn for Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals Inc., a group that works to elimate discrimatn agast homosexuals.

Timothy Meyer, for one, believ attus toward gays will ntue to improve.

SYNONYMS FOR GAY ENGEER

In the Uned Stat, there is the Natnal Organizatn of Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals (NOGLSTP), NuclearPri, 500 Queer Scientists, LGBT STEM, and oSTEM. I wanted to wre an article celebratg the works of the most fluential gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexual novators, ventors and scientists throughout history.

However, there was a are jt not many lists of famo homosexuals the homosexualy has often been associated wh the arts and creativy, has never been as openly accepted wh the scientific muny.

Ined, beg a homosexual was a crimal offense many untri until recently (and many untri, ntu to be today), which will have prevented many historil figur om g out of the closet. In the UK, before 1967 (jt over 50 years ago) homosexualy ed to be punishable by sentenc as harsh as life imprisonment. As a rult, many of history’s greatt homosexual scientists may have hidn their te inty.

QUEER & NERDY: WHY YOUR STARTUP SHOULD HIRE A GAY VELOPER

However, the gay muny has a long history of ntributns to science and I have piled a number of proment novators, scientists, and ventors who were LGBTQ, as they have eher openly admted to beg gay or historil rerds of their relatnships strongly suggt they were (see sourc at bottom of the article). Historil not believe that he was primarily homosexual. Rpectg the potato kgHistoril acunts believe he was homosexual, which enraged his fay and society at the time.

His work was so fluential that this branch of enomics is known as Keynian of his re tes were the age of tert rat by central banks to balance the needs of enomic growth and an open homosexual his younger years, Keyn eventually also began datg women and married a Rsian ballera.

Peter ThielPeter ThielYou may not always agree wh his polics, but you nnot ignore Thiel’s volvement some of the most novative technology pany of the past few of Confy 1998, which started PayPal 1999, Thiel is often referred to as the “Don of the PayPal mafia”, a a group of former PayPal employe and founrs who have sce found and veloped addnal technology pani[1]such as Tla Motors, LkedIn, Palantir Technologi, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp, and himself was also the first outsi vtor Facebook and provis lns of dollars to forward-lookg rearch technologi through the Thiel Foundatn and Thiel now openly gay and married to his long-time partner, Thiel was fur at beg outed a 2007 article by Gawker media. Jon HallJon “maddog” HallJon “Maddog” Hall is the Board Chair of Lux ternatnal, the open source movement promotg the eely available Lux operatg is an advote for g open source software and hardware available for any entreprenr, no matter what their background June 2012, honor of Alan Turg, Hall published an article  Lux Magaze announcg that he is gay. I n thk of nobody history who n boast a portfol as varied as Da Vci kept his love-life private, is wily believed that he was homosexual, based on acunts om those who knew him at the time, as well as urt documents where was revealed he had been volved a sexual enunter wh several men.