Gay Pride Made Science Smarter
On Evolution, Genetics, and Queer Ecology
6 min readJun 15, 2021
In February of 1911, the Terra Nova Expedition landed at frozen Cape Adare, Antarctica. From a ship of 65 of Britain’s finest sailors and scientists, six men came ashore, intent on becoming the first ever to reach the South Pole.
Instead of making exploration history, though, the men spent the entire winter in a hut…