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The 18th November is LGBT STEM day! A chance to celebrate and recognise LGBTQ+ scientists and mathematicians everywhere. I discuss why this is so important in the context of historical role models and then highlight some people you can admire here and now. There's even a dash of advice at the end for you allies out there.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro to LGBT STEM day and the importance of representation
1:58 The lack of LGBTQ+ historical figures
2:57 Leonardo Da Vinci
4:25 Alan Turing
4:57 Margaret Mead
6:49 Sally Ride
7:19 Shifting the narrative (feat. Alan Hart)
8:30 Some STEM figures to admire today!
12:17 500+ Queer Scientists and finding a community
14:40 How can allies and colleagues help?
17:47 End, thanks, outtakes

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References

~ General pages/sites/articles with interviews ~

500 Queer Scientists
https://500queerscientists.com

An article about the site
https://www.advocate.com/people/2018/...

Nature Careers Feature (includes interviews with Hontas Farmer, Kaela Singeton, Micah Savin and Sean Edgerton)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...

Discussion of historical LGBT scientists (including Leonardo and Alan Turing)https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/07/05...

Wiki list of lots of LGBT scientists!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Article on problems faces by queer scientists
https://massivesci.com/articles/queer...

More advice on being a good LGBTQ+ ally
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/equality/r...

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~ Sorted by Individual ~

Leonardo Da Vinci
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona...
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsye...

Alan Turing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Tu...

Margaret Mead
https://massivesci.com/articles/anthr...
Parts of her love letters can be seen here:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/10...

Sally Ride
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/07/05...

Alan Hart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_L....

Hontas Farmer
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...

Nergis Mavalvala
https://massivesci.com/articles/nergi...

Kaela Singleton
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
https://www.kaelasingleton.com

Lynn Conway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Co...

Micah Savin
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...

Sean Whelan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Wh...)

Sean Edgerton
https://500queerscientists.com/seanv...

Lauren Esposito
https://500queerscientists.com/lauren...
https://www.advocate.com/people/2018/...