Thank you for your kind words. It's lovely to hear that people on the committee are reading my work, so thank you for that.
I don't have the citations in front of me, but there is no conceivable reason that diversity along sexual orientation or skin colour, or whether you're two-spirit or non-binary, is going to improve our capacity to map the human genome or better understand the distribution of prime numbers. Science liberates us from the shackles of our personal identities. It's an epistemological tool that democratizes our capacity to seek science. By definition, science should be free from all that stuff.
If you want references, I can certainly try to whip some up for you.