A gay-owned Virgia rtrant is a dispute wh s neighbors - Washgton Post

Contents:

• TREVOR BURGS, FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO OF PUBLIC BANK: ‘SUCCS IS THE BT REVENGE’
• 12 BIGGT COMPANI WH GAY CEOS
• WHY IS APPLE'S TIM COOK THE ONLY OPENLY GAY CEO OF A MAJOR US FIRM?
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

TREVOR BURGS, FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO OF PUBLIC BANK: ‘SUCCS IS THE BT REVENGE’

But he may be bt known as the first openly gay CEO of a publicly listed bank after the pany he found, C1 Fancial, Inc, IPO'd 2014. )Of urse, Burgs' journey to succs as an openly gay man wasn't always easy. "I end up beg, I thk, the first openly gay person ever promoted to managg director at Man Stanley, " says Burgs, who spent a there om 1998 to 2008.

(A spokperson for Man Stanley nfirmed that Burgs was among the first openly gay executiv to be promoted to managg director at the firm.

12 BIGGT COMPANI WH GAY CEOS

"Here, Burgs talks to CNBC Make It about g out llege, climbg the ranks while openly gay and his advice for the growg up: 'I was a prec kid'I grew up wh a sgle mother Hanover, New Hampshire, where there are more ws than people. I thk 's bee I didn't have much realizg he was gay: 'I had no name for 'When you velop those feelgs as an 11-, 12- or 13-year old, they n put a name to [today]. I had been the print of my aterny and end up rigng and beme print of the gay stunts' I moved to Boston after graduatn.

As a prec 21-year-old, I ran an experiment: On half of my [job] applitns, I left off that I was print of the gay stunts' group. On the [other] half, I put that I was print of the gay stunts' group.

WHY IS APPLE'S TIM COOK THE ONLY OPENLY GAY CEO OF A MAJOR US FIRM?

It was really neat to go work for a pany that 1994 was fortable hirg an openly gay that pot on, I sort of never had a filter. But there were all sorts of crazy cinc of slurs and discrimatn and clients tellg crazy stori about hatg gay people and hatg people who have was very much of that time of the sort of the late 1990s and then thgs really started to change a ltle 's sort of the advice that I give to people, that life is not always fair.

I really wanted to help shape a different sort of environment where people, whether they're gay, women or people of lor, uld be much more thentic wh themselv.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

]On endurg antigay sentiment: 'The were really their problems, not my problem'It really helped me velop a very thick sk durg that time and realizg that the were really their problems and not my problem. The famoly private Cook me out an say published by Bloomberg 2014, makg him the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 pany. In the say, he wrote: “If hearg that the CEO of Apple is gay n help someone stgglg to e to terms wh who he or she is, or brg fort to anyone who feels alone, or spire people to sist on their equaly, then ’s worth the traoff wh my own privacy.

In addn to stillg an LGBTQ+-iendly pany culture, Gente clud a give-back program to raise funds and awarens for the Trevor Project—the world’s largt suici preventn and crisis terventn anizatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng young people. Ford has been openly gay her whole profsnal reer, tellg CNN, “I ma a cisn long ago to live an thentic life, and if my beg named CEO helps others do the same, that’s a wonrful moment.

GLAAD (Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn) is a media monorg anizatn that is famo for takg a strong stance agast biased and rogatory LGBT reprentatn. As one of the very few openly gay CEOs at the heights of rporate Ameri, Jefey Gente has worked hard to ensure that diversy and cln are bs imperativ at Macy’s.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

In addn to the pany culture Gente has stilled, for this year’s Pri Month, Macy’s annual Pri + Joy mpaign clud a ctomer-centric give-back program to raise funds and awarens for The Trevor Project – the world’s largt suici preventn and crisis terventn anisatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng young people. “I’m proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, ” Tim Cook said his edorial for Bloomberg Bs back 2014 when he me out publicly to officially bee the first openly gay chief executive the Fortune 500. An openly gay print of an NBA team stands ntrast to what has been the norm men's major league sports the U.

11, 2020, 11:27 PM UTCThe print of the Goln State Warrrs has wed his longtime Welts and Todd Gage were married by San Francis Mayor London Breed her office on Friday, Welts announced on and Gage have been together ne years, Welts said his, who me out as gay 2011, has been an stmental part of the Warrrs' succs over the last ne years, helpg the team appear five straight NBA Fals, w three openly gay print of an NBA team stands ntrast to what has been the norm men's major league sports the U.

In 2018, Coll Mart, a soccer player for Mnota Uned announced on Twter that he was gay, which ma him the only openly gay male player North Amerin sports leagu.