Lookg back I published the blog post On beg a gay mathematician June 2017. Two years later, I've had a generally posive reactn to the post, and I amplified my queer posive msage out to the world through my wrg and advocy. I've been on a few diversy-type panels and teracted, eher person…
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- ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN
- ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN RX
- ON ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ AND LEARNG MATH
- DESANTIS WARNS THAT MATH MAK CHILDREN GAY
- A MAN HAS ED A MATHEMATIL FORMULA TO PROVE EVERYONE IS GAY — SORT OF
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- A MATH TEXTBOOK HAS A QUTN FEATURG A GAY UPLE AND PEOPLE LOVE
- GAY MEN 'LS LIKELY' TO HAVE GREE SCIENCE, TECH, ENGEERG OR MATHS
ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN
Mathematics partments Canada have a poor rerd on equy, diversy and clivy says a gay mathematics profsor. Here he speaks about the hopeful chang he se g. * gay in math *
There are only a handful of gay, bisexual or lbian mathematics profsors Canada that I know.
I’m a gay mathematician. Up until now, I’ve found the silence on EDI mathematics, pecially on lbian, gay, bisexual, trans issu, afeng.
First, to make a broar pot, I start wh some shockg statistics related to gay youth. Out of 195 untri the world, homosexualy is crimalized 72 of them.
ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN RX
My thoughts on beg a gay mathematician. * gay in math *
Natnal survey, published last year the Journal of Homosexualy and wrten about last year Wired magaze. Other anizatns foc more broadly STEM, such as LGBT STEM, Natnal Organizatn of Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals and Out Science, Technology, Engeerg, and Mathematics. There’s Alan Turg, of urse, and there are theori that maybe Leonardo Da Vci was gay or that perhaps Florence Nightgale was a lbian, but no one really knows for sure.
Ey RiehlEy Riehl is an Associate Profsor of Mathematics at John Hopks Universy Baltimore, specialisg tegory theory and homotopy theory. Mathematics is mathematics, after all— isn’t male or female, whe or black, or gay or straight. Growg up gay ral Ontar durg the 1980s was an isolatg experience culturally, although did give me lots of time to thk and helped foster my creativy.
I had two queer iends (one gay the other lbian) and we kept to ourselv and rarely talked about our sexualy wh fay or iends for fear of rejectn. I knew of one gay profsor at the Universy: the late Jam Stewart, the thor of the famo Calcul text. Beg gay often volv so many of the small feats, the small let downs, that be part of our everyday experience.
ON ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ AND LEARNG MATH
* gay in math *
Beg gay isn’t only about who you love. While lecturg do the dience thk ls of me if they know I am gay? It’s a kd of eternal doubt that you rry as a gay person.
DESANTIS WARNS THAT MATH MAK CHILDREN GAY
When I was an assistant profsor, I heard that one of my partmental lleagu was unfortable wh my gayns. As a gay person, I hope one day the LGBT muny will be fully accepted amia and society, and we n learn not to self-ed ourselv so much. I published the blog post On beg a gay mathematician June 2017.
I heard om a reliable source that a Canadian feral bet mister was told by a member of parliament that gays don’t belong the hard scienc. When you are openly gay, you e out every day, every time you reference your personal life.
A MAN HAS ED A MATHEMATIL FORMULA TO PROVE EVERYONE IS GAY — SORT OF
Browsg through the Teachg Tolerance archiv, I recently me across an olr blog post on movg beyond the phrase “That’s so gay. When a math problem proved difficult to solve, she often rpond to my explanatns wh “That’s so gay, ” rated om time to time wh other choice remarks.
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I began to take a firmer stance, explag that g the word gay a disparagg way is disrpectful and hurtful to everyone, and particularly to LGBT people. TALLAHASSEE (The Borowz Report)—Proposg a sweepg ban on math Florida’s classrooms, Governor Ron DeSantis asserted that “the latt rearch” dit that “math mak children gay. Everyone’s gay, acrdg to this equatn (Pexels).
A post on Redd which maths to ‘prove’ that straight partners are gay has gone viral. Reddors certaly seem to agree, wh the post om Alexanr — whose ername is makorrga — attractg around 19, 500 upvot sce was submted to the SudnlyGay subredd.
A MATH TEXTBOOK HAS A QUTN FEATURG A GAY UPLE AND PEOPLE LOVE
If you have two men a relatnship, you have one gay uple. Therefore, a member of that relatnship is half a gay uple. A happy gay uple (Amir Levy/Getty).
Alexanr explas that, if we hold the prev sums to be te, “1 woman + 1 man = 1/2 gay + 1/2 gay = gay.
Therefore, he argu that “straight upl are gay. Straight upl are gay, acrdg to Alexanr (Pexels). 2 men= gay.
GAY MEN 'LS LIKELY' TO HAVE GREE SCIENCE, TECH, ENGEERG OR MATHS
)Y homoCategory theory origally veloped as a tool to e problems, but as grew as a field, enabled mathematicians to bridge realms prevly thought to be theory abstracts llectns of objects (lled elements), topology abstracts space, rgs abstract arhmetic, and so on. He started by tellg about some of his inti, which veloped to an observatn that our muny treats some inti like race and genr as “standard” differenc and often ignor others, like his gay and Caribbean inti.