Mathematics partments Canada have a poor rerd on equy, diversy and clivy says a gay mathematics profsor. Here he speaks about the hopeful chang he se g.
Contents:
- DESANTIS WARNS THAT MATH MAK CHILDREN GAY
- GAY MATH
- ON ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ AND LEARNG MATH
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- GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
- GAY
DESANTIS WARNS THAT MATH MAK CHILDREN GAY
* math gay meaning *
TALLAHASSEE (The Borowz Report)—Proposg a sweepg ban on math Florida’s classrooms, Governor Ron DeSantis asserted that “the latt rearch” dit that “math mak children gay.
There are only a handful of gay, bisexual or lbian mathematics profsors Canada that I know. I’m a gay mathematician. Up until now, I’ve found the silence on EDI mathematics, pecially on lbian, gay, bisexual, trans issu, afeng.
GAY MATH
First, to make a broar pot, I start wh some shockg statistics related to gay youth.
Out of 195 untri the world, homosexualy is crimalized 72 of them. Natnal survey, published last year the Journal of Homosexualy and wrten about last year Wired magaze.
Other anizatns foc more broadly STEM, such as LGBT STEM, Natnal Organizatn of Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals and Out Science, Technology, Engeerg, and Mathematics.
ON ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ AND LEARNG 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. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.
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G: Gay. Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”? While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.
GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.
People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. ” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.
GAY
Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men. The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all.
On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.
Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri. Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.