Thursday, August 25, 2011
GAY POWER
Well, not really. But, since the new CEO of Apple is an out gay man, we can say that there was just a power shift in the gay straight balance.
Or something.
Tim Cook: Apple’s New CEO and the Most Powerful Gay Man in America
It is worth a headline here but, actually, is a mere step in a progression of outings.
The funny thing is that business is the most out segment of our culture. Cook is, by no means, the only out business executive. We are everywhere. And, today, you can see most of us.
The second, my guess, would be government. Not politics necessarily but the whole ball of wax. After all, it is illegal to discriminate anywhere but more so in the bureaucracy than anywhere else. Federal law trumps everything else in the federal government.
It is interesting. I can remember, easily, when to be an out gay man in any corporation would be the kiss of death.
I can also remember when it was the kiss of death to be a Jew in most companies.
Black? No way.
Women? Not even now. A gay black jewish man has a better chance in corporate America than a woman.
