Where are all the gay software engeers? - Factual Qutns - Straight Dope Msage Board

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• ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
• DOWNLOAD GAY - BT SOFTWARE & APPS
• 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?
• WHY STANFORD REARCHERS TRIED TO CREATE A ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE
• BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'

There has been a nsirable stggle of acceptance for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual (LGBTQIA), and other margalized genrs. In 2014, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, beme the first lear of a major pany to e out as gay. In an edorial for Bloomberg Bs, Tim publicly me out, sayg, "I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me.

However, he eventually overme his fear and intified himself as gay. In 2012, Jon me out as gay on the birthday of mathematician Alan Turg.

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He even noted, “Computer science was a haven for homosexuals, transsexuals, and a lot of other sexuals, mostly bee the history of the science lled for fairly telligent, morn-thkg people. In 2009, Tim, who had long gone public that he was gay, got married to Stt Miller and has ntued to advote for the of the LGBTQ muny. He was among the first openly gay person on the Forb 400 list of Ameri's wealthit people.

Tim created a nonprof “The Gill Foundatn’ 1994 after Colorado passed an amendment that outlawed civil rights protectns for gays and lbians. David has been openly gay and nsistently regnized for his ntributns to the tech world and the LGBTQIA muny. They are lled the gay power uple and have been active same-sex advocy.

He is the founr of Grdr, the social workg app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. He had exprsed that his reason for foundg the pany was his sire to create a muny for gay men. Others were worried about homophobic behavrs om their lleagu bee people dislike what they do not unrstand.

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…

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.

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY SOFTWARE ENGEERS?

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. ” 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). 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.

WHY STANFORD REARCHERS TRIED TO CREATE A ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE

Edh “Edie” Wdsor is bt known as a gay rights activist who was the lead platiff the landmark Supreme Court Case Uned Stat v. 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 marriage is still only legal around 30 a number of diversy iativ aimed at LGBTQ+ people the tech sector have emerged recent years.

He's also the CEO of cloud platform provir me out as gay 2012 honor of the 100th birthday of mathematician Alan Turg, who also intified as his g out piece Lux Magaze, Hall wrote: "Most of the people my world of electronics and puters were like the mathematicians of Alan Turgs' time, highly ted and not really rg whether their patrts were homosexual or not, or at least lookg beyond the sexualy and seeg the rt of the person. He's nsired to be the first openly gay Hungarian CEO, and has ma diversy and cln a major ponent of Prezi's work environment. "I feel [beg openly gay] challeng me to be a better versn of myself, " Prezi told the Fancial Tim a October 2018 terview.

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Sisson is a serial entreprenr who has found a number of pani that have all been acquired: His we retail webse,, raised $46 ln before was acquired by; In 2005, Microsoft acquired one of Sisson's pani, Teleo, an early Skype petor; And he found Le2, an app that provis phone service, which was bought by j2 Global June is currently founr and CEO of Yaza, an gmented realy an terview wh Big Thk 2009, Sisson said beg gay as an entreprenr has been a "non-issue" for the most part. ""There's never been any sort of problem wh anyone fdg out that I was gay and sudnly not wantg to do bs wh me or not wantg to fund me, " Sisson said.

"Although beg gay is still unmon the VC world, I’ve never felt discrimatn; ultimately, I have found the tech dtry remarkably open-md, welg, and merocratic. Cook was named Apple's CEO Augt 2011, and prevly served as the pany's chief operatg me out publicly as gay 2014 a personal say for Bloomberg Bsweek. He said that while he wanted to ntue to keep his private life to himself, he felt an "creasg sense of duty" to e out as his way to help the gay muny.