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Contents:
- CEOS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
- A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- WHY GAY MEN MAKE THE BT BOSS
- CONSERVATIVE NEIGHBOR TOSS AD RAT ON PROPERTY OF GAY UPLE’S RTRANT AMID FD
CEOS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
Apple CEO Tim Cook may be "proud to be gay," but he is not alone. More pany chiefs are makg their sexual orientatn known. Here is a list. * gay business owners *
Out of the closetJt Sullivan | Getty Imag Openly gay CEOs are a rary the bs world, even though more pani are publicly exprsg their support for gay rights and clive workplac. One bsman on this list med that there are still many gay executiv who keep their personal liv private, but predicted that more openly gay men and women will steer more pani the future.
Here is a list of several openly gay pany chiefs. 2014Tim Cook Apple CEO Tim Cook openly discsed his sexualy an terview published Thursday, makg him one of a relatively short list of openly gay CEOs. "I'm proud to be gay, " he said the terview wh BloombergBsWeek.
A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY
There is a rise relig refals among bs owners who do not want to serve lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer, or LGBTQ, ctomers. * gay business owners *
He wrote about his sexualy Time, sayg he has been openly gay as long as he has been bs, and that the greater visibily of high-performg gay CEOs n help fight discrimatn agast gays and lbians the BrowneFormer Chief Executive of Brish Petrolm Lord Imag The former chief of BP abptly rigned after the Brish tabloid The Mail exposed a relatnship Browne had wh a young man who had once been a male prostute, acrdg to the BBC. In a subsequent book he wrote about his experienc as a closeted gay executive, Browne said he was "terrified" of beg outed even as a young man. He has lled for a more clive BurgsBurgs is CEO of the Florida-based vtment bank C1 Fancial, makg him the first openly gay CEO of a bank listed on the New York Stock Exchange, acrdg to Out ThielPeter ThielAdam Jeffery | CNBC Thiel is one of Silin Valley's most signifint vtors and entreprenrs.
Thiel said an terview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that he spects there may be many gay CEOs who have not announced publicly, and suggted may be part bee they hail om an olr generatn.
Christopher BaileyChristopher Bailey attends the Serpente Gallery Summer Party at The Serpente Gallery Cattermole | Getty ImagThe chief executive and chief creative officer of inic Brish fashn brand Burberry assumed learship May 2014, which means he is the first openly gay CEO of a pany clud the FTSE 100—the 100 pani on the London Stock Exchange wh the largt market palizatn, acrdg to an say by another man on this list, Lord WeltsAs print and chief operatg officer of the Goln State Warrrs, Welts is the is the hight rankg executive men's profsnal team sports to publicly acknowledge he is gay.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
* gay business owners *
It read, “Homosexual marriage not regnized. In 2018, the Supreme Court narrowly led favor of Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay uple’s weddg.
In 2019, the Washgton Supreme Court led agast a florist who refed to provi servic for a gay uple’s weddg.
WHY GAY MEN MAKE THE BT BOSS
Gay men make the bt boss * gay business owners *
Randall also sells surance, and he said he has both sold surance to and filed tax for sgle gay people. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.
They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.
He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.
CONSERVATIVE NEIGHBOR TOSS AD RAT ON PROPERTY OF GAY UPLE’S RTRANT AMID FD
To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.
And while ’s not nclive, evince suggts that one of the reasons Ollanr-Krane is so effective is that he’s part of a new breed—gay managers—who uld be beg Ameri’s most sirable the Edors of DetailsIn The G Quotient: Why Gay Executiv Are Excellg as Lears... And What Every Manager Needs to Know, thor and USC bs-school profsor Kirk Snyr argu that gay boss embody a style of personalized attentn that allows high-matenance Gen Xers and Yers to maximize their performance. “Gay executiv tend to look at how each dividual brgs unique abili, and they see their job as figurg out how bt to take advantage of those skills, “ he fact, durg Snyr’s five-year study of Amerin executiv, he stumbled on some startlg fdgs: Gay male boss produce 35 to 60 percent higher levels of employee engagement, satisfactn, and morale than straight boss.
And the Saratoga Instute, a group that measur the effectivens of HR partments, found that a study of 20, 000 workers who had qu their jobs, the primary motivator for jumpg ship was their supervisors’ what mak gay boss different? “Gay people are nstantly havg to dodge and weave and asss how and where they’re gog as they grow up, “ says Snyr.