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GAY MEN 'LS LIKELY' TO HAVE GREE SCIENCE, TECH, ENGEERG OR MATHS
The month of June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri month. The panel is “now s third year, and partnership wh Queers Science, an Eveng wh 500 Queer Scientists brgs you a night of vibrant nversatns and stori om (LGBTQIA+) [“Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, and sex and genr mory dividals”] scientists om NSW [New South Wal] who have succsfully followed a reer path science while beg out ‘ the lab’ and to their peers. In a 2021 WHYY article Black Queer Town Hall STEM speaker theoretil physicist Chanda Prd-Weste shared a hopeful view of the future, “…maybe one day there will be a queer Black girl who n jt go to llege and study physics and not have to thk about racism or sexism or homophobia or transphobia or ableism.
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