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Contents:
- THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS
- GAY MEN 'LS LIKELY' TO HAVE GREE SCIENCE, TECH, ENGEERG OR MATHS
- OPN: STEM ISN’T VERY GAY-IENDLY — AND THAT’S A PROBLEM
THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS
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I've often felt isolated my bisexualy—tucked the space between two muni—not que gay and not que straight. Growg up North Carola as a non-passg gay boy, science served as a haven for me. At this pot, I've done that work and love beg a gay man the world.
It is very important to me bee I have the secury and the support my life to be out whout a signifint triment—no more than the average threat of physil vlence as an outwardly-prentg gay man.
GAY MEN 'LS LIKELY' TO HAVE GREE SCIENCE, TECH, ENGEERG OR MATHS
What's really been neat is havg a genr exprsn that mov between mascule and feme as a gay man, and havg that prentatn occur the workplace as well as my personal life.
OPN: STEM ISN’T VERY GAY-IENDLY — AND THAT’S A PROBLEM
I've gotten to share that experience particularly wh folks the queer muny whose genr exprsn is not of a bary, and have had amazg nversatns about what means to be a cisgenr gay man who, for example, wears lorful bobby ps to a work terview. The partment uld have been homophobic, but really what mattered most was if my lab group [was]. JN: Along wh OSTEM, there's also Natnal Organizatn for Gay and Lbian Science Technil Profsnals (NOGLSTP).