Queer & nerdy: Why your startup should hire a gay veloper | VentureBeat

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• QUEER & NERDY: WHY YOUR STARTUP SHOULD HIRE A GAY VELOPER
• GAY GEEKS - THE LGBT TECH & SOFTWARE DEVELOPER MEETUP
• JT ANOTHER GAY VELOPPERANTOE FORT·FOLLOW6 M READ·FEB 13, 2018--3LISTENSHAREI HAVE BEEN THKG ABOUT WRG THIS POST FOR A LONG TIME, FIRST, NOT ONLY BEE ’S A MORE PERSONAL THAN TECHNIL ONE, BUT ALSO BEE ’S ONE OF THE SUBJECT THAT I DON’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WH -WORKER, BEE IS QUE ELS. BUT YEAH, SOME -WORKERS, OTHER VELOPERS OR LS-CLOSE IENDS DO ASK ME ABOUT THIS, SO LET’S JT MAKE ANOTHER MEDIUM POST BEE WHY NOT?!I AM 22, CURRENTLY LIVG MONTREAL AND WORKG AS A SOFTWARE VELOPPER. IN MY DAILY JOB I WRE PROGRAMS AND WEB APP. I E LANGAGE SUCH AS PYTHON, C++, JAVASCRIPT(NO, REACT) AND PHP(EHWWW I KNOW). I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LOVE WH PROGRAMMG AND TECHNOLOGI GENERAL. I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO TURN FEW SKILLS TO EASY MONEY FIXG PUTERS OM SIBLGS AND NEIGHBOURS.THAT BEG SAID, I VERY LOVE MY JOB AND MY TEAM IS AWARE ABOUT WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SHARE TO THE LARGE WORLD OF THE INTER. BEE BY TALKG TO A LOT OF PEOPLE THE DTRY AND ALSO READG STUFF AROUND, I HAVE REALIZED THAT NOT A LOT OF THGS WERE DOCUMENTED ON THE PLACE OF HOMOSEXUAL MENS THE WORLD OF SOFTWARE VELOPMENT, EXCEPT A FEW REDD POSTS AND GAY GEEKS MEETGS. I MEAN, FAIR ENOUGH IS NICE TO HAVE THOSE KD OF MEETGS, BUT AN DTRY MOSTLY DRIVEN BY MALE DIVIDUALS, I AM ALWAYS SURPRISED WHEN SOME PEOPLE BE LIKE “OH, GAY VELOPPER, ’S NOT VERY MON.”.WELL I GUS THAT THE AMOUNT OF GAY MEN IS LS THE SOFTWARE DTRY THAN THE FASHN ONE (I KNOW ’S A VERY-VERY-VERY BIG GENERALIZATN), BUT YEAH, S.O TO ALL MY GAY BUDDI THE FIELD OF SOFTWARE VELOPMENT!I AM NOT THE MOST ‘GAY LOOKG’ GUY AROUND FOR SURE BUT I DO THK ’S NICE TO HAVE THIS KD OF DIFFERENCE.FEARG THE TO BE LABELED “THE GAY DEV”?I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SUPER OPEN WH MY ORIENTATN, I THK JT MAK SOMETHG NICE TO TALK ABOUT WH -WORKERS. I ED TO BE THIS SUPER SHY GUY THAT WAS TRYG TO AVOID THE SUBJECT OF RELATNSHIP WH -WORKERS BEE, NO I DO NOT DATE GIRLS, BUT Y I DO HAVE FEELGS FOR HUMANS. AT THE BEGNG OF MY VERY 1 YEAR AND A HALF REER, I WAS SOMEHOW SRED TO BE LABELLED AS A “GAY VELOPPER”.I HAD THIS IA THAT EVERY DIFFERENCE THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY WAS THEN BEG A LABEL. BUT AS I GET TO KNOW MORE PROGRAMMERS THE TEAM I WAS WORKG, I THEN REALIZED THAT WAS ACTUALLY A THG I SHOULD NOT BE SRED TO TALK ABOUT. AS I WAS NOT SRED OR SHY TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT I WAS DATG BOYS WH MY IENDS AND FAY, NEHER I SHOULD BE SRED TO DO THE SAME THG WH -WORKERS.REMEMBERG MY FIRST FEW WEEKS MY JOB OF FULLSTACK, HLY OUT OF SCHOOL, AND JT TRYG TO FIGURED OUT HOW THIS -BASE WAS BUILT THE FIRST PANY I HAD JOED SEEMS LIKE FAR AWAY. BUT I STILL REMEMBER THAT EVERY TIM THE SUBJECT OF GIRLIENDS WAS BEG THROWN ON THE TABLE, I WAS BEG WEIRDLY UNFORTABLE, TRYG TO VENT SOME WEIRD STORY ON WHY “I WAS NOT VERY TERTED GOG OUT CLUBS ON IDAY EVEN IF GIRLS WERE AROUND!”.AS TOLD BEFORE, I AM NOT VERY LOOKG AS A “GAY” BOY, FOR WHATEVER MEANS, THE MOST MON SENTENCE I RECEIVE IS ALWAYS “OH I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGH…”. I MEAN, I LOVE TO LISTEN TO RAP MIC, I DRS KD OF WELL, BUT NOT SUPER-WELL, I DO NOT LOVE SHOPPG AND MY HAIRS ARE OFTEN A BIG MS. PL: I VERY SUCK AT SIGN AND ARTS GENERAL, AND I WEAR BAGGY-HOODY THAT I SOMETIME LAZILY TRA FOR PLA BLACK-CREW-NECK UPON CUTE LOGO DRIVEN SHIRT WHEN FEELG FANCY.ONE NIGHT, AT THE END OF SUMMER, I REMEMBER HAVG A B TOO MUCH BEER AND THAN STARTED TO TALK TO A PROGRAMMG IEND OF ME ABOUT HOW I WOULD LIKE MY WORKERS TO KNOW THIS OTHER SI OF ME.NOT BEG SHARED TO TALK ABOUT !IT ALL BEGAN WH A KD OF WEIRD SUATN, WHEN A -WORKER ASKED ME IF I HAD A GIRLIEND, SOMEHOW AS A JOKE… AND I JT TOLD, QUE DIRECTLY “I DATE BOY”. AND SO OTHER PEOPLE THE OFFICE WERE LIKE, “NOT SAYG ANYTHG, BUT WANTG TO SAY SOMETHG, BUT NOW KNOWG WHAT TO SAY”. AND THEN, AS I WAS JT FEELG THIS KD OF “OHH ’S A BIG MOMENT THAT JT HAPPENED, LET’S SAY SOMETHG”. I JT REPLIED TO THIS AWKWARD SILENCE WH THE ANSWER TO MYSELF SOMETHG LIKE“NO WORRI, EVERY OF MY IENDS KNOWS , MY FAY TOO, BUT I WAS JT NOT REALLY EXPECTG TO TALK ABOUT AT MY JOB. BUT AS YOU TALK A LOT ABOUT YOUR RELATNS AND STUFF, I WANTED TO TELL YOU, BEE I DO DATE, BUT NOT GIRLS. SO JT TRA ‘GIRL’ FOR ‘BOY’ ”.AND THEN…
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY SOFTWARE ENGEERS?
• DOWNLOAD GAY - BT SOFTWARE & APPS
• GREGORY GAY
• GRDR LIKE GAY DATG APP DEVELOPMENT – COST & KEY FEATUR

QUEER & NERDY: WHY YOUR STARTUP SHOULD HIRE A GAY VELOPER

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This morated Slack channel is open to people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and qutng, as well as “any of the many other subgenr of people who are not generally nsired both ‘straight’ and cis.

GAY GEEKS - THE LGBT TECH & SOFTWARE DEVELOPER MEETUP

Out to Innovate, formerly known as the Natnal Organizatn of Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals (NOGLSTP), is an clive nonprof anizatn for LGBTQ+ people STEM. In addn, he was the first CEO of a Fortune 500 pany to e out as gay. In 2016, Hugh -found the Enomic Secury addn, Hugh is a famo philanthropist and has been happily married to his gay partner, Sean Eldridge, sce 2012.

He’s also the Board Chair of Lux Profsnal Instute, the open-source movement promotg the e of the Lux operatg June 2012, Hall published an article Lux Magaze honor of Alan Turg, announcg he is gay. In honor of Gay Pri and the anniversary of Stonewall, we‘re highlightg a group of pneers of puter science: people who were (or are) lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Generally regard as the “father” of theoretil putg science and artificial telligence, Alan Turg is the name that most often to md when people thk about an fluential gay puter science pneer.

JT ANOTHER GAY VELOPPERANTOE FORT·FOLLOW6 M READ·FEB 13, 2018--3LISTENSHAREI HAVE BEEN THKG ABOUT WRG THIS POST FOR A LONG TIME, FIRST, NOT ONLY BEE ’S A MORE PERSONAL THAN TECHNIL ONE, BUT ALSO BEE ’S ONE OF THE SUBJECT THAT I DON’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WH -WORKER, BEE IS QUE ELS. BUT YEAH, SOME -WORKERS, OTHER VELOPERS OR LS-CLOSE IENDS DO ASK ME ABOUT THIS, SO LET’S JT MAKE ANOTHER MEDIUM POST BEE WHY NOT?!I AM 22, CURRENTLY LIVG MONTREAL AND WORKG AS A SOFTWARE VELOPPER. IN MY DAILY JOB I WRE PROGRAMS AND WEB APP. I E LANGAGE SUCH AS PYTHON, C++, JAVASCRIPT(NO, REACT) AND PHP(EHWWW I KNOW). I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LOVE WH PROGRAMMG AND TECHNOLOGI GENERAL. I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO TURN FEW SKILLS TO EASY MONEY FIXG PUTERS OM SIBLGS AND NEIGHBOURS.THAT BEG SAID, I VERY LOVE MY JOB AND MY TEAM IS AWARE ABOUT WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SHARE TO THE LARGE WORLD OF THE INTER. BEE BY TALKG TO A LOT OF PEOPLE THE DTRY AND ALSO READG STUFF AROUND, I HAVE REALIZED THAT NOT A LOT OF THGS WERE DOCUMENTED ON THE PLACE OF HOMOSEXUAL MENS THE WORLD OF SOFTWARE VELOPMENT, EXCEPT A FEW REDD POSTS AND GAY GEEKS MEETGS. I MEAN, FAIR ENOUGH IS NICE TO HAVE THOSE KD OF MEETGS, BUT AN DTRY MOSTLY DRIVEN BY MALE DIVIDUALS, I AM ALWAYS SURPRISED WHEN SOME PEOPLE BE LIKE “OH, GAY VELOPPER, ’S NOT VERY MON.”.WELL I GUS THAT THE AMOUNT OF GAY MEN IS LS THE SOFTWARE DTRY THAN THE FASHN ONE (I KNOW ’S A VERY-VERY-VERY BIG GENERALIZATN), BUT YEAH, S.O TO ALL MY GAY BUDDI THE FIELD OF SOFTWARE VELOPMENT!I AM NOT THE MOST ‘GAY LOOKG’ GUY AROUND FOR SURE BUT I DO THK ’S NICE TO HAVE THIS KD OF DIFFERENCE.FEARG THE TO BE LABELED “THE GAY DEV”?I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SUPER OPEN WH MY ORIENTATN, I THK JT MAK SOMETHG NICE TO TALK ABOUT WH -WORKERS. I ED TO BE THIS SUPER SHY GUY THAT WAS TRYG TO AVOID THE SUBJECT OF RELATNSHIP WH -WORKERS BEE, NO I DO NOT DATE GIRLS, BUT Y I DO HAVE FEELGS FOR HUMANS. AT THE BEGNG OF MY VERY 1 YEAR AND A HALF REER, I WAS SOMEHOW SRED TO BE LABELLED AS A “GAY VELOPPER”.I HAD THIS IA THAT EVERY DIFFERENCE THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY WAS THEN BEG A LABEL. BUT AS I GET TO KNOW MORE PROGRAMMERS THE TEAM I WAS WORKG, I THEN REALIZED THAT WAS ACTUALLY A THG I SHOULD NOT BE SRED TO TALK ABOUT. AS I WAS NOT SRED OR SHY TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT I WAS DATG BOYS WH MY IENDS AND FAY, NEHER I SHOULD BE SRED TO DO THE SAME THG WH -WORKERS.REMEMBERG MY FIRST FEW WEEKS MY JOB OF FULLSTACK, HLY OUT OF SCHOOL, AND JT TRYG TO FIGURED OUT HOW THIS -BASE WAS BUILT THE FIRST PANY I HAD JOED SEEMS LIKE FAR AWAY. BUT I STILL REMEMBER THAT EVERY TIM THE SUBJECT OF GIRLIENDS WAS BEG THROWN ON THE TABLE, I WAS BEG WEIRDLY UNFORTABLE, TRYG TO VENT SOME WEIRD STORY ON WHY “I WAS NOT VERY TERTED GOG OUT CLUBS ON IDAY EVEN IF GIRLS WERE AROUND!”.AS TOLD BEFORE, I AM NOT VERY LOOKG AS A “GAY” BOY, FOR WHATEVER MEANS, THE MOST MON SENTENCE I RECEIVE IS ALWAYS “OH I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGH…”. I MEAN, I LOVE TO LISTEN TO RAP MIC, I DRS KD OF WELL, BUT NOT SUPER-WELL, I DO NOT LOVE SHOPPG AND MY HAIRS ARE OFTEN A BIG MS. PL: I VERY SUCK AT SIGN AND ARTS GENERAL, AND I WEAR BAGGY-HOODY THAT I SOMETIME LAZILY TRA FOR PLA BLACK-CREW-NECK UPON CUTE LOGO DRIVEN SHIRT WHEN FEELG FANCY.ONE NIGHT, AT THE END OF SUMMER, I REMEMBER HAVG A B TOO MUCH BEER AND THAN STARTED TO TALK TO A PROGRAMMG IEND OF ME ABOUT HOW I WOULD LIKE MY WORKERS TO KNOW THIS OTHER SI OF ME.NOT BEG SHARED TO TALK ABOUT !IT ALL BEGAN WH A KD OF WEIRD SUATN, WHEN A -WORKER ASKED ME IF I HAD A GIRLIEND, SOMEHOW AS A JOKE… AND I JT TOLD, QUE DIRECTLY “I DATE BOY”. AND SO OTHER PEOPLE THE OFFICE WERE LIKE, “NOT SAYG ANYTHG, BUT WANTG TO SAY SOMETHG, BUT NOW KNOWG WHAT TO SAY”. AND THEN, AS I WAS JT FEELG THIS KD OF “OHH ’S A BIG MOMENT THAT JT HAPPENED, LET’S SAY SOMETHG”. I JT REPLIED TO THIS AWKWARD SILENCE WH THE ANSWER TO MYSELF SOMETHG LIKE“NO WORRI, EVERY OF MY IENDS KNOWS , MY FAY TOO, BUT I WAS JT NOT REALLY EXPECTG TO TALK ABOUT AT MY JOB. BUT AS YOU TALK A LOT ABOUT YOUR RELATNS AND STUFF, I WANTED TO TELL YOU, BEE I DO DATE, BUT NOT GIRLS. SO JT TRA ‘GIRL’ FOR ‘BOY’ ”.AND THEN…

” Turg’s life had a tragic endg: arrted and prosecuted for “gross cency” when thori disvered he was gay, he mted suici by gtg cyani and died at the age of 41. Strachey studied mathematics and physics at Kgs College, Cambridge, where he suffered a nervo breakdown durg his third year (which his sister attributed to his stggl to e to terms wh his homosexualy).

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY SOFTWARE ENGEERS?

In the early 1970s he beme volved wh the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), and the later part of his life beme more and more voted to gay rights activism. Edh “Edie” Wdsor is bt known as a gay rights activist who was the lead platiff the landmark Supreme Court Case Uned Stat v.

DOWNLOAD GAY - BT SOFTWARE & APPS

Wdsor, which overturned Sectn 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and led to the legalizatn of gay marriage. In 2012, Hall me out as gay an article published Lux Magaze. Gay and transgenr engeers nverged on a technology nference aimed at LGBT folks hosted on the Facebook mp last weekend.

GREGORY GAY

Gay and transgenr engeers and velopers om Box, Yahoo, Square, and Facebook held a panel ssn early the first day of programmg to talk generally about Silin Valley’s attu toward LGBT folks and specifilly about their own g-out-at-work experienc. I am the only openly gay guy on my team.

Why a gay v is different. And as a llege sophomore, Esposa is still high on that first taste of how the Inter n change liv and nnect people. He’s not the stereotypil theatre gay.

In other words, entreprenrs, you should hire a gay veloper bee he or she is exactly as talented, as enthiastic, and as eager to take your pany to big plac as any of his or her straight peers. But at the end of the day, you should hire a gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer, cur, or other veloper bee all the ways that matter, they’re jt like the rt of . How to hire a gay engeer.

GRDR LIKE GAY DATG APP DEVELOPMENT – COST & KEY FEATUR

That will always attract the bt talent, gay, straight, or otherwise. Organizatns for LGBTQ dividuals software velopment clu oSTEM (Out Science, Technology, Engeerg and Mathematics), Gay Geeks, QueerCors, Out Tech, Out To Innovate, Pri STEM, Queer Tech Club, LGBTQ Tech, TransTech Social Enterpris, and Out4Unrgrad.

Many of the anizatns exist to support the muny of LGBTQ programmers om the often homophobic and sexist workplace the profsn.