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- KEH RABOIS SQUAR UP TO GAY SEX ‘SHAKEDOWN’
- THE GAYS AND THE TECH INDTRY: AN INCLIVE YET COMPLITED RELATNSHIP
- TECH TAN KEH RABOIS RIGNS AS CHIEF OPERATG OFFICER OF SQUARE AS GAY LOVER DANGL HARASS SU
KEH RABOIS SQUAR UP TO GAY SEX ‘SHAKEDOWN’
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THE GAYS AND THE TECH INDTRY: AN INCLIVE YET COMPLITED RELATNSHIP
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Back the 80s, Gene Falk, chief executive officer at StartOut, an anizatn that helps gay entreprenrs, says there was an unspoken "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy rporate circl.
Over the years, tech pani have played a pneerg and proment role the gay rights movement. For example, a cursory search through YouTube displays thoands of g out stori and gay-themed movi. The onle world, which thriv on unnventnal and niche narrativ, is enthralled wh the emergg story around gay rights.
"As more and more people e out, there are fewer people who don't know a gay person, " says Marie Trexler, venture palist and mentor at StartOut. Falk chalks down the tech sector's enthiasm for gay rights to a batn of enlightened self-tert and a relatively young workforce as pared to other dtri, which place a premium on experience. "It (gay rights) is an emotnal issue and youth do not have the emotnal burn of senrs, " says Falk.
TECH TAN KEH RABOIS RIGNS AS CHIEF OPERATG OFFICER OF SQUARE AS GAY LOVER DANGL HARASS SU
But, the most important reason for the tech sector's embrace of gay rights is pure enomics. Wh the tech enomy, however, that dollar go even further bee gays are proment ctomers and creators the enomy.
Tech tans' support for gay rights has generated enormo goodwill and ee marketg for their products among gay muni. Datg and hookup apps, such as Grdr, aimed exclively at gay muni have already received lns of dollars fundg.