My thoughts on beg a gay mathematician.
Contents:
ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN
* gay mathematicians *
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.
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.
June is Pri Month, which memorat the Stonewall rts of 1969, when patrons of a gay bar, The Stonewall Inn, New York Cy fought back agast a police raid.
ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN RX
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… * gay mathematicians *
It was an flectn pot the gay liberatn movement. S., the vast majory of whom at the time were gay men. One branch of ACT UP lled the Science Club was head by Mark Harrgton, an HIV-posive gay man.
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.