LBGTQIA+
Standing up for personal beliefs and embracing who you are is so important in life.
Increasing diversity in STEM means acknowledging all different sexual preferences that may exist. It is important to accept these people into all careers, as they all stand to gain from these fantastic individuals. Here are some of history’s brightest scientists who were/are female and identify as LGBTQIA+ and information about supporting female scientist organizations and resources.
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Resources and Organizations:
Over the past five years NOGLSTP has partnered with MentorNet, a non-profit mentoring organization with the purpose of furthering the progress of underrepresented minorities in scientific and technical fields. Diamond and Ross especially recommend this service for LGBT scientists in socially conservative education institutions or regions.
Here are the links of NoGLSTP, Mentor Net, and 500 Queer Scientists, which are all great resources for people in STEM fields who are LBGT.
National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals: NoGLSTP
Mentor Net: https://mentornet.org/
500 Queer Scientists: https://500queerscientists.com/
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Queer Female Scientists
Neena B. Schwartz, a retired neuroendocrinologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, chronicles what it was like for her to start a research lab in the 1970s as both a woman and a lesbian. “While my feminist activism has at times seemed separate from my science, it, like my career, has been played out in the open. She has her own book: A Lab of My Own
Amy A. Ross, Ph.D., an associate biologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. She works with students everyday and creates positive environments for everybody to be included in STEM. Whether it’s rising from lab tech to cancer-focused research pathologist, or helping to establish USC’s first alumni group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Trojans, Ross has blazed trails to help others.
Angela Clayton: was an internationally known physicist working in the fields of Nuclear Criticality Safety and Health Physics. She was also a campaigner for the rights of transgender people.
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32.[1][2] After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the only person to participate in both. Ride identified as LBGT. Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012.
Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, and transgender activist.Conway is notable for a number of pioneering achievements, including the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design, which incubated an emerging electronic design automation industry.