By now, you've likely heard how Peter Thiel parlayed a $500,000 vtment Facebook to a stake now worth $750 ln. There's been a csh of verage on his $220 ln Founrs Fund, which may well change the way entreprenrs get paid the Valley. We know about his mansn (he rents — clever!), his butler, his early-morng jogs. But what no one ever says out loud: Thiel is gay.
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PETER THIEL MAK HISTORY AT RNC: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'
In any other electn, the ia of an openly gay, avowed libertarian member of Silin Valley’s ele addrsg the Republin Natnal Conventn on the same night as the nomee would seem, well, unnventnal, to say the least. At this pot, however, ’s well unrstood that most thgs about this electn — and the speaker qutn, Peter Thiel — are jt, a -founr of PayPal, ma history Thursday night when he beme the first person to publicly announce to the GOP nventn that he is gay. "I am proud to be gay.
Thiel prumably had his own sre to settle; 2007 Gawker’s Valleywag blog published a piece tled, “Peter Thiel is totally gay, people” before he was publicly out. ”Gregory Angelo, print of the pro-LGBT Log Cab Republins, hoped Thiel would also acknowledge the historic nature of his prence as a gay man. Only two other openly gay people have addrsed the GOP nventn before, and the last time happened 16 years ago, legat om Texas silently protted by bowg their heads prayer.
PETER THIEL IS TOTALLY GAY, PEOPLE
’ I don’t thk ’s an accint that they’re havg an openly gay nservative addrsg the nventn on a night that is pog that theme, ” Angelo said Wednday. But is he gay? But the notn that this ma someone "homosexual" or "gay" was a relatively recent phenomenon human history.
Prr to that, sexual activi between people of the same genr were often nsired sful or crimal, but they rarely nstuted what some the medil muny began to fe at end of the 1800s as a "third sex" or "tersex" or even "homosexual.
" The creatn of the tegory of sexual orientatn not only classified homosexual sex but also led to the ventn of the Uned Stat and many parts of Europe, the velopment of the tegori led to the broar cultural unrstandg that the sexual acts created unrstandg that sex had the power to fe inty led to the martn of homosexual and heterosexual people -- as well as the subsequent stigma that those who were marked as homosexual were aberrant, crimally viant, and socially the people who began to be intified as homosexual started to disagree wh the assertns and found promise this alternative inty.