Gay people in science

[OrphanPip]

When I did my microbiology degree, in my year there were 5 of us, counting myself, three lesbians and two gay guys, out of a group of about 80ish. I didn't mingle much with the lower years though, so there were probably more of us that I just wasn't aware of, I knew some in other science programs too.

Doing my arts degree, there are 6 of us that I know of in a program of around 100ish students: 3 gay guys and 3 lesbians.

I think it would depend on the program in the sciences, career wise, studies suggest gay men favour female dominated fields slightly more than men. So, if we extended that to academia, we might suspect that gay men favour professional schools (medicine and law) over the basic sciences and engineering.

Although, there are a number of gay people with science and engineering backgrounds on this site alone, so they're definitely out there.

(Edit: Although, my current university does have an institute for sexuality and gender studies that is just swimming in gays)