![]() We encourage you to Register Here, its 100 free and we will never sell your. A deeply religious woman and an icon of the Victorian era, her sexuality remains disputed-but a controversial BBC documentary in 2001 suggested the “Lady with the Lamp” was a repressed lesbian. Welcome Guest To Just Us Boys The Worlds Largest Gay Message Board Community. Nightingale devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, played a key role in helping wounded soldiers in the Crimean War and is referred to as the founder of modern nursing. He left no private diaries and little correspondence and, according to Oxford University’s Newton Project, it remains disputed whether the troubled scientist was a “repressed homosexual,” but “if true would undoubtedly have placed a man of his background and upbringing under extreme mental strain.” The scientist who first understood how gravity works was known to be an introverted character who suffered from mental health issues. His fellow member of parliament Sir Simonds D’Ewes, a puritan, outed Bacon in his “Autobiography and Correspondence ” in a passage that, according to gay history writer Rictor Norton, was suppressed from the book’s published version in 1845 and largely ignored by Bacon’s biographers. Sometimes referred to as the “the father of modern science” for developing the scientific method of investigating an hypothesis, Bacon was also a politician, a philosopher and a jurist. ![]() The archetypal Renaissance man made significant contributions to various fields of the sciences and the arts-and lived his life as an openly gay man, according to Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of the artist and inventor. My next assumption was that he may have been gay and had hide his identity due to the conservative Christian environment at the time, however I could not find any information on secret letters, lovers, etc. In occasion of the historic occasion, let’s remember 10 queer men and women in science who changed the world-a list by no means exhaustive, as many more LGBT+ scientists keep working every day to contribute to human knowledge.įind the 10 possibly queer scientists listed below: 1. There is the age old rumor that he died a virgin, but after a quick Wikipedia skim it seems like he had no interest in women either. Some science might be done in a physical vacuum, but no science is done in a historical one,” Dr. It is time to stop pretending that the STEM disciplines are not influenced by politics and social changes. We are sure it will start conversations, and that’s so important. “LGBTSTEMDay won’t fix all the issues, but it will shine a big light on them. ![]() ![]() The logo for the LGBTSTEM Day initiative (Image by Pride in STEM) ![]()
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