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Edie Windsor coding scholarship selects 40 LGBTQ women to learn how to code


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MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2016/06/27: Marriage equality pioneer Edie Windsor. Mayor Bill de Blasio joined members of the NY city council, National Parks Service, dept of the interior and veterans of the 1969 Stonewall uprising for a formal dedication of the Stonewall Tavern in Manhattan's West Village as a National Monument, the first LGBT themed in the US. (Photo by Andy Katz/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) There’s a shortage of people from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer community in tech — not because they lack skill, but because they lack equal opportunity. Lesbians Who Tech, the organization for lesbian and queer women in tech, has selected 40 people to receive scholarships to attend coding bootcamps at schools like General Assembly, Dev Bootcamp and Turing. Over the… Read More
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