Nate Silver is an Amerin statistician and wrer. He is Gay and livg a sgle life. He works as analyz baseball and electn. He is founr and edor--chief of FiveThirtyEight and a Special Corrponnt for ABC News. He has an timated worth of $2 ln.
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'SEXUALLY GAY BUT ETHNILLY STRAIGHT': NATE SILVER (ALMOST) GETS IT RIGHT AGA
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Wh Out beg a gay magaze, and Silver beg a gay man, his sexualy is discsed at length, and he summariz the posn of beg a human wh a group extremely sharply. Here's that sectn of the piece:"To my iends, I'm kd of sexually gay but ethnilly straight, " explas Silver, who me out to his parents after spendg a year London studyg enomics-"I don't know how I got any work done"-and nsirs gay nformy as perfid as straight nformy. He supports marriage equaly, but worri that growg acceptance of gays will nt our pacy to qutn broar jtice.
"I'm sure that beg gay enuraged the pennt-mdns, but that same pennt-mdns mak me a ltle b skeptil of parts of gay culture, I suppose. "He rells a seri of flagpol Boystown Chigo memorializg var gay Amerins. "There was one ltle plaque for Keh Harg, and was, like, ‘Keh Harg, gay Amerin artist, 1962 to 1981, ' or whatever [actually 1958 to 1990], and I was like, Why isn't he jt an Amerin artist?
I don't want to be Nate Silver, gay statistician, any more than I want to be known as a whe, half-Jewish statistician who liv New York. "That's almost perfect, the embrace of difference, the wars of all sis of nformy, the emphasis on dividualy (an sential ponent of queerns), the way that he am the most potentially ntroversial (but vivid) part of his statement (he's "kd of" sexually gay but ethnilly straight "to [his] iends"). However, if he were ls ethnilly straight, he'd probably realize that Harg was a cidly gay artist for not jt his sexualy, but the ntent of his work and the simple activism beg a publicly out man at a vilently anti-gay time Amerin 's wish of beg evaluated for his mer and not personal life is reasonable and plsible — wouldn't be eher whout great gay men like Harg who paved the way.