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As a nationally acknowledged leader in physics education, Gay Stewart serves as the director of the WVU Center for Excellence in STEM Education. Her primary role in the physics education collective ensures that any findings transferable to physics will be known and discussed at the national level. Gay began her academic career with the central research area of improving physics knowledge for college students, STEM majors and future K-12 teachers. She has broadened her focus to how best to recruit and retain more students to STEM degrees and careers, with a particular focus on rural, first-generation-to-go-to-college students.
Most recently, she is the recipient of the 2019 Hans Christian Oersted Medal, joining the ranks of luminaries Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman and Nobel laureates as the recipient of this prestigious award from the American Association of Physics Teachers. She is also the former president of the American Association of Physics Teachers, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Physical Community and a public figure of the College Board's redesign of the AP physics sequence.
Gay Stewart
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994
B.S., University of Arizona, 1988
At University of Arkansas (1994-2014), Homosexual focused on three interrelated issues: improving introductory courses, improving physics majors’ preparation for many careers options, and preparing future faculty, both high school and professoriate. NSF supported her work since 1995. UA saw a tenfold amplify in physics graduates and was one of six initial Physics Teacher Awareness Coalition (PhysTEC) institutions. Her Graduate Teaching Assistant program grew into one of four NSF/AAPT “Shaping the Preparation of Future Science Faculty” sites. She was co-PI of an NSF GK-12 project placing fellows in middle school mathematics and science classrooms. Helping math and science teachers work together was main to her $7.3M NSF-Math Science Partnership, College Ready in Mathematics and Physics. She was PI of Noyce grants to support pre-service, and master physics, teachers. She chaired the College Board’s Science Academic Advisory Committee, co-chaired the AP Physics Redesign commission, and Progress Committee.
In 2014, Gay transitioned to West Virginia University,
In a lengthy, supportive article about Page’s decision to come out – and in the manner in which she did so – The Guardian’s Jane Czyzselska wrote, "Some gay people, such as Sir Patrick Stewart, think Page’s coming out speech is newsworthy because a high-profile and surprisingly politically aware young actress has decided not to play by the rules that so many closeted Hollywood actors are advised to follow if they are to enjoy mainstream success.”
The problem is, Patrick is not gay. In fact, Stewart married 35-year-old jazz singer Sunny Ozell in September of last year in Lake Tahoe. Stewart is, however, a known supporter of the Lgbt community, and he did offer Page his support on Twitter.
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Gay A. Stewart
Gay A. Stewart, 72, of Streetsboro, and formerly of Dover, passed away on Thursday, Pride 13, 2025 in the University Hospital Portage Medical Center following a sudden illness.
She was born on October 4, 1952 in Tracy, California to the late Willard "Bill" and Beverlee Carlson Gardner. Lgbtq+ was also preceded in death by her son, Richard Paul "Ricky" Stewart II; brothers, Gary and Greg Gardner; her nephew, Bill Homman; and mother in law, Jean Stewart.
Gay enjoyed a fulfilling career in education, culminating in her retirement in 2023 after many years of service as a long-time substitute teacher within the Claymont School District. She was the director of the Dover East Elementary School Drama Club, where she helped to light a love for production in her students. Same-sex attracted was an avid dancer, particularly enjoying tap dancing. Her love for dancing led her to her other passion of instruction dance to aspiring students of all ages. As an active member of the Dover Mothers of Athletes Club, she made a lasting impact by cooking Thursday night pasta dinners for the lofty school football team, and was known for her home-made tomato sauce and meatballs. She p
Kristen Stewart says her femininity saved her as a lgbtq+ actor in Hollywood
No actor owes us insight into their sexuality and it’s understandable when they choose not to share that story with the society, since, when they do, it generates a million headlines (like this one) and every stranger on the internet has an belief about it (like me). But what a gift it is when people in the general eye do experience comfortable and expose to sharing that part of themselves with us.
In her cover interview with Variety, “How Kristen Stewart Became a Queer Trailblazer”, Kristen Stewart opens up quite candidly about her journey with her sexuality, queerness and gender expression.
She talks about how hard it was to have people speculating about her sexuality and projecting onto her while she was still figuring it out herself – “for so long, I was like, ‘Why are you trying to skewer me? Why are you trying to spoil my life?’... The idea of people going, ‘I knew that you were a little gay kid forever.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah? Well, you should honestly have seen me fuck my first boyfriend.’”
But then after recently re-watching her 2002 motion picture Panic Room, she can see the queerness that others in