I don't know if it's homophobia or lack of role models, but, yes, I've found that gay people limit in a similar way that women are limited. I've talked about this with my gay colleagues. I'm going into surgery and 80% of the time when I tell a gay guy that I'm in med school, they reply "Do you want to become a nurse practitioner afterwards?" "Oh, yay, you could be my own personal nurse." "My mom's a nurse too." etc. I'm not a nurse, I'm an MD.

The fact that so many gay people jump to the conclusion that I'm a nurse suggests that for some reason these gay people don't see being a physician as a realistic option or there is an internalized stereotype that this career isn't what gay people do. Female MDs experience the same kind of bs where it's assumed that they must be the nurse and older patients will not believe the advice of female physicians, but would listen to literally any male hospital employee.

I think internalized homophobia steers gay people away from more science and tech fields and into more stereotypically gay fashion, theater, acting, English, political science type things. Most children grow up with their only exposure to gay people being tv characters or celebrities in these positions and it limits them