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THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS
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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