Sentences with phrase «someone is gay»

Valleywag, the gossip blog that wrote articles about Thiel — including one that outed him publicly as being gay — has already ceased to exist.

One of the stories that bothered Thiel most, Silicon Valley insiders say, was the one that outed him publicly as being gay in 2007.

«Feeding people's «likes» into an algorithm, information hidden in the lists of favorites predicted whether someone was white or African American with 95 % accuracy, whether they were a gay male with 88 % accuracy, and even identified participants as a Democrat or Republican with 85 % accuracy.

And perhaps not surprisingly, Cook, who is gay, has been particularly visible on LBGTQ rights issues, coming forward to denounce Indiana and Arkansas state laws that were viewed as discriminatory.

Some critics contend that Cook's stance domestically rings hollow when being gay is illegal in about a fifth of the 100 - plus countries Apple does business in.

With celebrity declarations of gayness — such as CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's recent admission — now being greeted with little more than a shrug by most viewers, being gay finally seems to be beginning to lose its stigma with the general cookie - consuming public.

Here are the states where you can still be fired for being gay because they don't have explicit laws that prevent discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace.

In contrast, when the New York Post was looking into a scandalous incident in Denton's love life, Denton, who is gay, called the reporters to fill them in on the details.

This is not about a business being gay friendly, it's about whether the business is using stockholder's money to promote a lifestyle that is not biblical.

But none of those publications care much about the technology industry and its masters — and certainly none of them has ever delved into Thiel's personal life, as Gawker - owned Valleywag did in 2007 when it published a claim that Thiel is gay.

«I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day.»

«Being gay has never been a big deal to me, which is why it's a little funny to be getting all this attention about it,» he told GQ.

«It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.»

Thiel has admitted he funded the lawsuit over the tape as part of what The New York Times referred to as a «secret war» on Gawker, which in 2007 ran a post stating Thiel was gay.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

They won't support a product just because the company that makes it is gay - owned.

Then, once they had some distribution in a city, they would capitalize on the fact that many of the managers and staff of mainstream establishments are gay and would happily help them move Black Sheep into nongay venues.

Their next market should be a gay destination place, like the Florida Keys or South Beach.

Maybe because I was gay, I grew up hating open secrets.

In our interviews, Thiel said that he had not fully realized he was gay when he wrote the book.

Lehman is gay, and his company has been certified as gay - owned.

It also doesn't hurt that the founders are themselves a gay couple living in Atlanta, which makes theirs the local brew and gives Black Sheep Light Lager an extra dimension of appeal to their first - round target customers.

In Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, for example, you can be executed for being gay.

On the other hand, a later study that measured time spent looking at images of men kissing found no evidence that some homophobic men are gay at a subconscious level - in fact, some of the homophobic men seemed to have an implicit aversion to such images.

If you're gay in New York, for example, you are OK.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in the absence of a specific prohibition against discrimination for being gay, has extended its enforcement in a similar way.

Truth is, just because you can't not be fired for being gay, doesn't mean you can be fired for being gay.

Cook is a prize in that regard: The man who runs what is arguably America's most important and innovative company is gay.

In Cook's statement of his own sexual orientation in Bloomberg Businessweek he justified revealing that he was gay for social reasons, noting what he sees as the potential for anti-gay discrimination in the majority of the country.

«It's important to say people are gay, people are black,» she told the BBC.

There have been gay and bisexual characters in the show before, such as Captain Jack Harkness played by John Barrowman.

«Men are affected by the belief that any level of same - sex attraction must mean you're gay.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a legal brief in an appeals court case, arguing against workplace discrimination protection for employees who are gay.

As a result, being gay at WH Smith is simply not an issue.

Last year, Cook acknowledged that he is gay.

Certainly, the fact that some politicians have discovered that their children and others they know are gay has helped to speed LGBT civil rights.

«So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade - off with my own privacy.»

«I looked around, did some reading, and the men's accessories market seemed like the obvious place to invest because there has just been so much of growth,» says Barclay, joking, «I remember when if you wore a pink shirt, everyone assumed you were gay.»

«Breaking: Bill O Reilly is gay.»

Earlier this week, people browsing Moscow's Red Square via Street View on maps.google.se would have seen a huge black - and - white billboard right next to St Basil's Cathedral stating: «Being gay is normal.»

(He also reportedly plans to acknowledge that he is proud to be a gay man.)

If my daughter married an African American or if my son said he was gay, would I be upset?

I can tell that not everyone feels comfortable working alongside someone who's gay.

A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization.

For example, men who «liked» the cosmetics brand MAC were slightly more likely to be gay; one of the best indicators for heterosexuality was «liking» Wu - Tang Clan.

But until late middle age, even Burton didn't know something crucial to his being: He's gay.

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel said that he was proud to be gay and a Republican during the fourth day of the Republican National Convention.

In an interview with CNBC, for example, he compared being a conservative at Google to «being gay in the 1950s.»

But he's never found time in his packed cultural outreach schedule to attend a Pride parade, and last fall singer k.d. lang needled him on Twitter: «You're gay, aren't you?»

Gawker was one of the first to report that CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was gay in 2009.