Lookg back I published the blog post On beg a gay mathematician June 2017. Two years later, I've had a generally posive reactn to the post, and I amplified my queer posive msage out to the world through my wrg and advocy. I've been on a few diversy-type panels and teracted, eher person…
Contents:
- ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE
- ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN
- ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN RX
- GAY MATHEMATICIAN “THE IMATN GAME” CROSSWORD CLUE
ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE
My thoughts on beg a gay mathematician. * gay mathematician *
There’s Alan Turg, of urse, and there are theori that maybe Leonardo Da Vci was gay or that perhaps Florence Nightgale was a lbian, but no one really knows for sure. Ey RiehlEy Riehl is an Associate Profsor of Mathematics at John Hopks Universy Baltimore, specialisg tegory theory and homotopy theory.
Jam | 19 November 2010 The Relign Vis What do you do to a homosexual mathematician whose -breakg geni saved the world durg World War II? His name is even enshred two of the most important puter-science ncepts, the Turg mache and the Turg Alan Turg hadn’t been homosexual, his name might be a hoehold word like Este, Newton and Galileo.
In 1952 a gay lover helped an acplice rob Turg’s hoe.
ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN
* gay mathematician *
Durg the police vtigatn, me out that Turg was a homosexual. In 1551, he was forced to exile om Leipzig followg a homosexual affair. In his later years, he moved away om putg, jog the Gay Liberatn Front the 1970s wh his hoe beg a gay mune.
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.
ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN RX
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.
Beg gay often volv so many of the small feats, the small let downs, that be part of our everyday experience. Beg gay isn’t only about who you love. While lecturg do the dience thk ls of me if they know I am gay?
It’s a kd of eternal doubt that you rry as a gay person.
GAY MATHEMATICIAN “THE IMATN GAME” CROSSWORD CLUE
When I was an assistant profsor, I heard that one of my partmental lleagu was unfortable wh my gayns. As a gay person, I hope one day the LGBT muny will be fully accepted amia and society, and we n learn not to self-ed ourselv so much. On June 28, 1970, the first gay pri paras took place, which have now bee an ternatnal tradn the month of June — known as “Pri month”.