LGBTQ+ scientists: UK-US inclusion in STEM Belinda Colston1, Abigail Powell1, Lauren Esposito2 and Arti Agrawal3 discuss the challenges for LGBTQ+ scientists and inclusion in the UK-US STEM landscape through an intersectional lens. The STEM professions continue to be dominated by white, heterosexual men and characterised by a stereotypically masculine culture with the expectation of heteronormative identity. The exclusionary and hostile environments often encountered in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines have persistently excluded women, ethnic minorities, disabled people and those who identify as LGBTQ+.
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