Image credit "Enduring Turing #cdyf" by Dunk [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)] Â Available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/52372679917 Let’s start with Dr. Alan Turing, the gay British mathematician who is considered the father of computer science. Three years later, “the British government announced ‘Turing’s Law’ to posthumously pardon thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted for homosexual acts when it was considered a crime.” In a study that collected data from STEM professionals between the years 2017 and 2019, it was found that LGBTQ+ respondents “were 22% more likely to have felt nervous or stressed from work, 31% more likely to have felt socially excluded by colleagues, and 32% more likely to have thought about leaving their…