Gay on Wall Street, the Ltle Blue Pill and Other Adventur - Bloomberg

Contents:

• A GOLDMAN SACHS PARTNER EXPLAS HIS STGGL AND RISE AS A GAY MAN THE 'LOUD, MASCULE' WALL STREET CULTURE
• GAY ON WALL STREET
• BLACK AND GAY ON WALL STREET: OTHO KERR ON HAVG A FRONT-ROW SEAT FOR OVER 30 YEARS
• BEG GAY/OUT BANKG?
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GAY BANKERS? + OR - ON WALLSTREET
• GOT A GAY ORGY SCENE TO SHOOT? MART SRSE CALLED THIS CHOREOGRAPHER
• GAY BANKERS, ONCE SILENT, SPEAK OF PROGRS — AND HURDL
• WALL STREET CEOS OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR GAY SONS
• GAY HISTORY – NYC MARCH 24, 1987: ACT UP STAG ITS FIRST MAJOR PROTT ON WALL STREET, 17 ARRTED – [VIDEOS]
• GAY ON WALL STREET, THE LTLE BLUE PILL AND OTHER ADVENTUR

A GOLDMAN SACHS PARTNER EXPLAS HIS STGGL AND RISE AS A GAY MAN THE 'LOUD, MASCULE' WALL STREET CULTURE

Disverg his inty the early 90s, as the HIV/AIDS epimic ced a new wave of homophobia, and while attendg an all-boys boardg school, was isolatg and sry, Broadbery said.

"My siblgs were a great support the early years, and my mother eventually forced an hont nversatn wh me where she sisted I say the words 'I am gay' so that we uld move on and prerve our very close relatnship, " Broadbery said. "I thk the story of a lot of young gay people is that they tend to leave the area which they grew up and they try to start anew.

GAY ON WALL STREET

"Beg gay on a Wall Street tradg floor was "dntg"Wall Street is stereotypilly thought of as an dtry filled wh men who flnt their masculy — wh a domeerg energy that overtak meetg rooms, watch that flex their e, and a gaggle of women on their yacht ck the Hamptons. It's a trope that has been portrayed and perpetuated movi about the dtry, om "The Wolf of Wall Street" to "Marg Call" and "The Big Short" — and has not clud gay men.

BLACK AND GAY ON WALL STREET: OTHO KERR ON HAVG A FRONT-ROW SEAT FOR OVER 30 YEARS

"Havg somebody senr the dtry, somebody senr the firm, take the time to nnect wh me and to tell me was OK to be gay on Wall Street at that early stage of my reer was hugely impactful. "What we're dog terms of rights for our transgenr employe terms of healthre, the typ of dividuals we're hirg, the trag that we do for our employe, has really shifted away om jt gay and lbian to a much broar spectm of the muny and the muny's needs. Ross marvels at how far and fast gay rights have progrsed his untry and dtry — as wh all of those terviewed, he ocsnally pulls back om nuanced discsn to remark, awtck, at the turn of events.

BEG GAY/OUT BANKG?

” Ross’s daily work life volv “verg, ” the practice of downplayg the known fact that one is gay (or a woman, or black, or disabled, or... Millennials, born between 1980 and 1998, are “the gayt generatn, ” more than twice as likely as any other to clare themselv one of those tegori. “It’s fascatg to look at, ” says Richard Soris, a proment gay executive at nsultant work Gerson Lehrman Group and a former Clton Whe Hoe adviser.

“We were both on Wall Street, and Wall Street at that time, you know — the one mory group that was ee game for everybody was the homosexual muny.... Early on, Goldman Sachs, JPMan, and bulge-bracket fellows put their meangful rourc and nservative reputatns behd gay rights and marriage equaly, powerg the movements over the le when succs was far om certa. Beg a Black, gay profsnal on Wall Street for over thirty years, I have had a ont row seat to how the vtment muny has evolved when to vtg historilly margalized muni.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

While I certaly enuntered a few racists and homophob while workg on Wall Street, I actually found myself fortunate to spend most of my time workg wh folks who not only had an tert their profsns but had an tert helpg unrserved muni as well.

Historilly, very ltle tradnal vtment pal has flowed to people who look like me – Black and/or gay – eher formally through the pal markets or rmally via iends and fay.

GAY BANKERS? + OR - ON WALLSTREET

While racism and homophobia has certaly driven vtment cisns and the lack thereof, who had accs to pal was a functn of who you knew.

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GOT A GAY ORGY SCENE TO SHOOT? MART SRSE CALLED THIS CHOREOGRAPHER

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GAY BANKERS, ONCE SILENT, SPEAK OF PROGRS — AND HURDL

1 9 IBAnalyst 1  IB-M&AAnonymo 6mo I'm a PE associate now, jt haven't bothered updatg my no way am I tellg gay people how to act; 's simply te that if you're gog to fance (or any other reer that requir profsnalism) and make "beg gay" your entire persona, you're not gog to do well and lots of people are not gog to like you. Pl, if that's your entire personaly you are serly one-dimensnal and probably a negative to any IB that may accept 's not bee people are homophobic (granted there will be people like that, poundg the negative effect), 's bee 's pletely idtic to make everyone around you know 24/7. I don't tell other associat or my superrs that I want to bang women; 's simply irrelevant to the job and you should be fired for dog that whether you are gay or I'm sayg here is that you should act and look like a normal, rpectable person, otherwise you should go fd a ad-end job where all the other people who share a siar mdset eventually end up.

WALL STREET CEOS OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR GAY SONS

There's been an entire, legimized movement to pot out all the flaws and shortfalls of straight men society, and has been far more btal than the "beg gay is fe, if snowballs to beg unprofsnal be an issue" advice OP provid. Ofc he was jt tryg to look out for me IBAssociate 1  IB-M&AAnonymo 6mo If you're NYC or SF, you're probably treated better beg openly gay than beg a nservative. Sce old, young, rich, poor, stupid, smart, whe, black, nservative, liberal all have the same chance of beg gay, there isn't really a stigma/anti bias imo.

GAY HISTORY – NYC MARCH 24, 1987: ACT UP STAG ITS FIRST MAJOR PROTT ON WALL STREET, 17 ARRTED – [VIDEOS]

If, separately, you re about liberal vs nservative that is another thg entirely and you n self pick based on is way harr to be a woman for stance 1 I'm a mascule gay and s been a ltle rough navigatg the rporate landspe where you nstantly have to rrect others perceptn of you. The "normal" gays like me (thk Jared Polis, Pete Buttigieg, Peter Thiel, Dave Rub, etc) are ually the typ that end up high payg rporate jobs and keep to themselv. I n't adm I stayed out partyg at the gay bars and flyg to gay events on the weekends bee I'll get asked weird qutns about my "liftyle".

GAY ON WALL STREET, THE LTLE BLUE PILL AND OTHER ADVENTUR

I thk one of his ma pots is that people have a pre-nceived notn of gays as rabow wearg, flamboyant people and he has to go super far out of his way to avoid other people tomatilly type-stg him as that. 5 1 If you said you went to the pri para and walked him around on all fours a leather gimp su while he barked like a dog would be a b this your flt notn of what average gay upl do though?