World's Richt Gay Man and Six Others You Didn't Know

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• 8 OPENLY GAY BILLNAIR
• WORLD’S RICHT GAY MAN AND SIX OTHERS YOU DIDN’T KNOW
• WHY ARE GAY GUYS SO RICH? FANCIAL SUCCS & GAY MEN | LGBT MENTAL HEALTH & SELF-WORTHOMARALEXIS OCHOALISTEN TO THIS ARTICLEONE OF MY CLOSE IENDS TOLD ME THE OTHER DAY THAT HE’S WORRIED ABOUT HIS NEW RELATNSHIP. I ASKED HIM WHY AND HE SAID, “WELL, I DON’T THK I’M GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM.” MY FIRST RPONSE WAS, “WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT?” AND HE SAID, “WELL, HE OM A REALLY RICH FAY AND ME? I’M BASILLY NOTHG.” I’M GONNA HAVE TO STOP YOU RIGHT THERE.‍GAY MEN ARE ADDICTED TO SUCCS (OR THE IMAGE OF )GAY MEN ARE OVERLY NCERNED WH THE GLAM. MONEY, TRIPS, RS -- AND I DON’T THK I’M OVERSTATG THAT. THERE IS SIGNIFINT REARCH SHOWG THAT GAY MEN DO FACT MAKE MORE MONEY THAN THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS; ’S ACTUALLY SOMETHG I VERED ANOTHER PODST, WH SOME REARCH OM THE HARVARD BS REVIEW SO MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT. BUT, THE GIST OF THE REARCH IS THAT: YES GAY MEN DO MAKE MORE THAN STRAIGHT MEN ON AVERAGE. HOWEVER, THAT DON’T PROVE MY POT; GAY MEN MIGHT HAVE THE MEANS TO BE NCERNED WH GLAM, BUT DON’T EXPLA WHY WE’RE SO FIXATED ON .IT’S A PRETTY TYPIL STEREOTYPE. HOP ON INSTAGRAM AND YOU’LL BE GREETED WH SO MANY ULTRA-HOT GAY UPLE PAG, POSTG UPDAT ABOUT THEIR LATT TRIP TO MYKONOS, MATCHG TLAS, AND MEAL PREPPG WH THEIR EQUOX TRAERS. IT’S EVERYWHERE, AND I’M GUILTY OF SOME OF THIS AS WELL. (NOT THAT I DRIVE A TLA… YET.) THE ARE ALL EXAMPL OF THE WELL-DOCUMENTED “DINK” PHENOMENON AMONG LGBTS: “DUAL E; NO KIDS.” THIS IS JT ONE OF THE REASONS GAY MEN APPEAR TO HAVE SIGNIFINTLY MORE DISPOSABLE E TO BE ENJOYG THE LUXURI THEY SHARE ON INSTAGRAM.‍PSYCHOLOGIL REARCH EXPLAS THE GAY SUCCS ADDICTNWHY DO THE FANCIALLY SUCCSFUL GAY MEN SPEND THEIR MONEY ON TRIPS, AND SIGNER CLOTH, AND LUXURY RS? Y, AS A SOCIETY WE GENERALLY STRIVE FOR THE THGS AS SYMBOLS OF STAT BUT ONE PSYCHOLOGIL STUDY VERG THIS EXACT PHENOMENON AMONG GAY MEN PTUR WELL.IT’S REVIEWED AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY PSYCHOLOGY TODAY AND VERS THE REARCH OF TWO DOCTORS AT YHIVA AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSY, THAT OUTL WHAT THEY SCRIBE AS THE “BT LTLE BOY THE WORLD” HYPOTHIS. THIS IS ACTUALLY BASED ON A MEMOIR BY THE SAME NAME, WRTEN BY ANDREW TOBIAS (AN LGBT THOR) AND THEY QUOTE HIM THE ARTICLE TO DISTILL THE IA’S RE NCEPT THAT ACPLISHMENTS ARE OFTEN ED TO WARD OFF FEELGS OF REJECTN. TOBIAS WR: “ANOTHER IMPORTANT LE OF FENSE, THE MOST IMPORTANT ON A PRACTIL DAY-TO-DAY BASIS, WAS MY PRODIG LIST OF ACTIVI…NO ONE ULD EXPECT ME TO BE OUT DATG…WHEN I HAD A LIST OF 17 URGENT PROJECTS TO PLETE.”‍SURVEYS AMONG LGBT, STRAIGHT COLLEGE STUNTSTHEIR APPROACH TO THIS STUDY WAS TO SURVEY STUNTS: ABOUT 150 LGBTS AND 60 STRAIGHTS, ABOUT THEIR VTMENTS DIFFERENT “LIFE DOMAS:” THGS LIKE THEIR APPEARANCE, AMICS, PETN, AND FANC. THEY MEASURED HOW MUCH PERSONAL VTMENT THE PEOPLE CLAIMED TO PUT CERTA DOMAS TO INTIFY KEY AREAS OF SELF-WORTH. FOR EXAMPLE, IF SOMEONE CLAIMS TO BE MORE VTED PETN AND FANC VERS FAY AND RELIGN.NEXT, FOR THE LGBT RPONNTS SPECIFILLY, THE REARCHERS ASKED QUTNS TO TIMATE THEIR LENGTH OF TIME THE CLOSET, AS WELL AS TO TERME THE LEVEL OF ACCEPTANCE FOR LGBTS US STAT WHERE EACH RPONNT GREW UP. THIS ALLOWED FOR THE REARCHERS TO RELATE THE LEVEL OF VTMENT GAY MEN HAVE THGS LIKE FANCIAL SUCCS, TO HOW LONG THEY WERE CLOSETED, AND WHETHER THEIR HOME STAT WERE MORE OR LS PROGRSIVE. ALTOGETHER, THIS OUTL A STORY WHICH THE DATA N SHOW HOW, WH THE LGBT MUNY, REJECTN RRELAT WH A SIRE TO ACHIEVE MATERIAL OR PETIVE SUCCS.‍GAY MEN SEEK SUCCS AS VALIDATN NEGATIVE LGBT ENVIRONMENTSTHE STUDY FOUND THAT YOUNG GAY MEN VT MORE EFFORT TO MATERIAL DOMAS LIKE FANCIAL SUCCS AND APPEARANCE. THIS WAS MORE APPARENT AMONG RPONNTS THAT SPENT MORE TIME THE CLOSET, OR WERE OM US STAT LS ACCEPTG OF LGBT PEOPLE. MEANWHILE, THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS DID NOT HAVE QUE AS MUCH PERSONAL VTMENT THE AREAS.THIS IS BEE AREAS OF MATERIAL SUCCS ARE, TO SOME EXTENT, MORE NTROLLABLE FOR LGBTS. WHEN A QUEER PERSON IS RAISED AN ENVIRONMENT FILLED WH NEGATIVE PERCEPTNS ABOUT QUEER PEOPLE, THERE IS A LOT OF ANXIETY AROUND HOW ONE’S PARENTS WILL REACT, WHETHER ONE’S IENDS WILL ACCEPT THEM, AND WHAT THE NEIGHBORS WILL THK -- ALL OF THE, UNNTROLLABLE NSEQUENC OF G OUT.IT MAK SENSE THAT GAY MEN WOULD MUCH RATHER NCERN THEMSELV WH THGS THEY N NTROL, SUCH AS AMICS WH HOW MUCH THEY STUDY, FNS WH HOW OFTEN THEY WORKOUT, AND THEIR REERS WH HOW MUCH WORK THEY PUT . IT NOT ONLY PROVIS A KD OF DISTRACTN OM THE ANXIETY OF BEG CLOSETED, BUT ALSO PROVIS A LEVEL OF VALIDATN; FOR PEOPLE TO SEE YOU GRADUATE WH HONORS, HAVE GREAT ABS, OR A SUCCSFUL REER. VALIDATN THAT PROV SPE BEG GAY, YOU HAVE SUCCEED WHERE OTHERS HAVE FAILED.‍AN OBSSN WH SUCCS ISN’T ONLY FOR LGBTSTHERE ARE A FEW QUTNS, THOUGH, I WOULD HAVE FOR THE REARCHERS REGARDS TO THIS STUDY. ONE NFOUNDG VARIABLE ULD BE THAT, BEE THEY WERE TERVIEWG LLEGE-AGED STUNTS, NCERN WH MATERIAL SUCCS ULD BE A FACTOR OF THEIR AGE AND MATURY RATHER THAN SOMETHG SPECIFIC TO LGBTS. I’D BE TERTED TO SEE THIS SAME STUDY AMONG SLIGHTLY OLR LGBT ADULTS. IN ADDN, BEE THE ARE LLEGE STUNTS, I’D ASSUME MANY ARE MOSTLY BROKE, SO A NCERN WH MATERIAL SUCCS MIGHT JT BE A RULT OF THEIR NCERN WH MONEY GENERAL. A GOOD WAY TO SS THIS OUT MIGHT BE TO ALSO CLU TIMATED E LEVEL AND SEE IF THIS NCERN WH MATERIALY PERSISTS AMONG HIGHER .‍YOUR VALUE AS A GAY PERSON IS NOT DICTATED BY MONEYSO, WHAT DO ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WH MY IEND AND HIS RELATNSHIP? WELL, WHEN HE APPROACHED ME WH THE IA THAT HE “ISN’T WORTHY OF LOVE” BEE OF HIS FANCIAL BACKGROUND, I WAS PRETTY DISAPPOTED. MD YOU, THE AREN’T THGS HIS PARTNER VOICED TO HIM; THIS WAS HIS NCERN RULTG OM AN TERNAL SECURY OVER HIS “VALUE” AS A GAY MAN WHO DID NOT E OM A SIAR LEVEL OF WEALTH. IT MA ME THK ABOUT HOW FANCIAL SUCCS AND SELF-WORTH ARE, AT LEAST WH THE GAY MUNY, HIGHLY RRELATED, AND THIS STUDY PRETTY MUCH PROV .IT’S CREDIBLY TRATG TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE MEN OUT THERE ALREADY UNTG THEMSELV OUT WHEN TO LOVE, FOR SOMETHG AS IMPERMANENT AS MONEY. WHILE I REGNIZE THAT MUCH OF THIS NCERN WH MATERIALY IS TIED TO THE ANXIETY OF GROWG UP GAY, AND FEELG “FERR” TO THE RT OF THE WORLD, ’S UNFORTUNATE AND DISAPPOTG THAT OUR QUEER SIBLGS ARE HURTG FOR SOMETHG SO SUPERFICIAL. I CHALLENGE ANY QUEERS LISTENG -- AND EVEN ANY STRAIGHTS, AS THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY A LARGER PROBLEM WH OUR MATERIAL SOCIETY -- TO FIXATE LS ON THE MATERIAL AND THE IMAGE OF SUCCS, AND STEAD FD THE PEOPLE AND THGS THAT TLY ADD VALUE TO YOUR LIFE.SUBSCRIBE NOW
• GAY RICH MEN

8 OPENLY GAY BILLNAIR

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WORLD’S RICHT GAY MAN AND SIX OTHERS YOU DIDN’T KNOW

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WHY ARE GAY GUYS SO RICH? FANCIAL SUCCS & GAY MEN | LGBT MENTAL HEALTH & SELF-WORTHOMARALEXIS OCHOALISTEN TO THIS ARTICLEONE OF MY CLOSE IENDS TOLD ME THE OTHER DAY THAT HE’S WORRIED ABOUT HIS NEW RELATNSHIP. I ASKED HIM WHY AND HE SAID, “WELL, I DON’T THK I’M GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM.” MY FIRST RPONSE WAS, “WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT?” AND HE SAID, “WELL, HE OM A REALLY RICH FAY AND ME? I’M BASILLY NOTHG.” I’M GONNA HAVE TO STOP YOU RIGHT THERE.‍GAY MEN ARE ADDICTED TO SUCCS (OR THE IMAGE OF )GAY MEN ARE OVERLY NCERNED WH THE GLAM. MONEY, TRIPS, RS -- AND I DON’T THK I’M OVERSTATG THAT. THERE IS SIGNIFINT REARCH SHOWG THAT GAY MEN DO FACT MAKE MORE MONEY THAN THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS; ’S ACTUALLY SOMETHG I VERED ANOTHER PODST, WH SOME REARCH OM THE HARVARD BS REVIEW SO MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT. BUT, THE GIST OF THE REARCH IS THAT: YES GAY MEN DO MAKE MORE THAN STRAIGHT MEN ON AVERAGE. HOWEVER, THAT DON’T PROVE MY POT; GAY MEN MIGHT HAVE THE MEANS TO BE NCERNED WH GLAM, BUT DON’T EXPLA WHY WE’RE SO FIXATED ON .IT’S A PRETTY TYPIL STEREOTYPE. HOP ON INSTAGRAM AND YOU’LL BE GREETED WH SO MANY ULTRA-HOT GAY UPLE PAG, POSTG UPDAT ABOUT THEIR LATT TRIP TO MYKONOS, MATCHG TLAS, AND MEAL PREPPG WH THEIR EQUOX TRAERS. IT’S EVERYWHERE, AND I’M GUILTY OF SOME OF THIS AS WELL. (NOT THAT I DRIVE A TLA… YET.) THE ARE ALL EXAMPL OF THE WELL-DOCUMENTED “DINK” PHENOMENON AMONG LGBTS: “DUAL E; NO KIDS.” THIS IS JT ONE OF THE REASONS GAY MEN APPEAR TO HAVE SIGNIFINTLY MORE DISPOSABLE E TO BE ENJOYG THE LUXURI THEY SHARE ON INSTAGRAM.‍PSYCHOLOGIL REARCH EXPLAS THE GAY SUCCS ADDICTNWHY DO THE FANCIALLY SUCCSFUL GAY MEN SPEND THEIR MONEY ON TRIPS, AND SIGNER CLOTH, AND LUXURY RS? Y, AS A SOCIETY WE GENERALLY STRIVE FOR THE THGS AS SYMBOLS OF STAT BUT ONE PSYCHOLOGIL STUDY VERG THIS EXACT PHENOMENON AMONG GAY MEN PTUR WELL.IT’S REVIEWED AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY PSYCHOLOGY TODAY AND VERS THE REARCH OF TWO DOCTORS AT YHIVA AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSY, THAT OUTL WHAT THEY SCRIBE AS THE “BT LTLE BOY THE WORLD” HYPOTHIS. THIS IS ACTUALLY BASED ON A MEMOIR BY THE SAME NAME, WRTEN BY ANDREW TOBIAS (AN LGBT THOR) AND THEY QUOTE HIM THE ARTICLE TO DISTILL THE IA’S RE NCEPT THAT ACPLISHMENTS ARE OFTEN ED TO WARD OFF FEELGS OF REJECTN. TOBIAS WR: “ANOTHER IMPORTANT LE OF FENSE, THE MOST IMPORTANT ON A PRACTIL DAY-TO-DAY BASIS, WAS MY PRODIG LIST OF ACTIVI…NO ONE ULD EXPECT ME TO BE OUT DATG…WHEN I HAD A LIST OF 17 URGENT PROJECTS TO PLETE.”‍SURVEYS AMONG LGBT, STRAIGHT COLLEGE STUNTSTHEIR APPROACH TO THIS STUDY WAS TO SURVEY STUNTS: ABOUT 150 LGBTS AND 60 STRAIGHTS, ABOUT THEIR VTMENTS DIFFERENT “LIFE DOMAS:” THGS LIKE THEIR APPEARANCE, AMICS, PETN, AND FANC. THEY MEASURED HOW MUCH PERSONAL VTMENT THE PEOPLE CLAIMED TO PUT CERTA DOMAS TO INTIFY KEY AREAS OF SELF-WORTH. FOR EXAMPLE, IF SOMEONE CLAIMS TO BE MORE VTED PETN AND FANC VERS FAY AND RELIGN.NEXT, FOR THE LGBT RPONNTS SPECIFILLY, THE REARCHERS ASKED QUTNS TO TIMATE THEIR LENGTH OF TIME THE CLOSET, AS WELL AS TO TERME THE LEVEL OF ACCEPTANCE FOR LGBTS US STAT WHERE EACH RPONNT GREW UP. THIS ALLOWED FOR THE REARCHERS TO RELATE THE LEVEL OF VTMENT GAY MEN HAVE THGS LIKE FANCIAL SUCCS, TO HOW LONG THEY WERE CLOSETED, AND WHETHER THEIR HOME STAT WERE MORE OR LS PROGRSIVE. ALTOGETHER, THIS OUTL A STORY WHICH THE DATA N SHOW HOW, WH THE LGBT MUNY, REJECTN RRELAT WH A SIRE TO ACHIEVE MATERIAL OR PETIVE SUCCS.‍GAY MEN SEEK SUCCS AS VALIDATN NEGATIVE LGBT ENVIRONMENTSTHE STUDY FOUND THAT YOUNG GAY MEN VT MORE EFFORT TO MATERIAL DOMAS LIKE FANCIAL SUCCS AND APPEARANCE. THIS WAS MORE APPARENT AMONG RPONNTS THAT SPENT MORE TIME THE CLOSET, OR WERE OM US STAT LS ACCEPTG OF LGBT PEOPLE. MEANWHILE, THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS DID NOT HAVE QUE AS MUCH PERSONAL VTMENT THE AREAS.THIS IS BEE AREAS OF MATERIAL SUCCS ARE, TO SOME EXTENT, MORE NTROLLABLE FOR LGBTS. WHEN A QUEER PERSON IS RAISED AN ENVIRONMENT FILLED WH NEGATIVE PERCEPTNS ABOUT QUEER PEOPLE, THERE IS A LOT OF ANXIETY AROUND HOW ONE’S PARENTS WILL REACT, WHETHER ONE’S IENDS WILL ACCEPT THEM, AND WHAT THE NEIGHBORS WILL THK -- ALL OF THE, UNNTROLLABLE NSEQUENC OF G OUT.IT MAK SENSE THAT GAY MEN WOULD MUCH RATHER NCERN THEMSELV WH THGS THEY N NTROL, SUCH AS AMICS WH HOW MUCH THEY STUDY, FNS WH HOW OFTEN THEY WORKOUT, AND THEIR REERS WH HOW MUCH WORK THEY PUT . IT NOT ONLY PROVIS A KD OF DISTRACTN OM THE ANXIETY OF BEG CLOSETED, BUT ALSO PROVIS A LEVEL OF VALIDATN; FOR PEOPLE TO SEE YOU GRADUATE WH HONORS, HAVE GREAT ABS, OR A SUCCSFUL REER. VALIDATN THAT PROV SPE BEG GAY, YOU HAVE SUCCEED WHERE OTHERS HAVE FAILED.‍AN OBSSN WH SUCCS ISN’T ONLY FOR LGBTSTHERE ARE A FEW QUTNS, THOUGH, I WOULD HAVE FOR THE REARCHERS REGARDS TO THIS STUDY. ONE NFOUNDG VARIABLE ULD BE THAT, BEE THEY WERE TERVIEWG LLEGE-AGED STUNTS, NCERN WH MATERIAL SUCCS ULD BE A FACTOR OF THEIR AGE AND MATURY RATHER THAN SOMETHG SPECIFIC TO LGBTS. I’D BE TERTED TO SEE THIS SAME STUDY AMONG SLIGHTLY OLR LGBT ADULTS. IN ADDN, BEE THE ARE LLEGE STUNTS, I’D ASSUME MANY ARE MOSTLY BROKE, SO A NCERN WH MATERIAL SUCCS MIGHT JT BE A RULT OF THEIR NCERN WH MONEY GENERAL. A GOOD WAY TO SS THIS OUT MIGHT BE TO ALSO CLU TIMATED E LEVEL AND SEE IF THIS NCERN WH MATERIALY PERSISTS AMONG HIGHER .‍YOUR VALUE AS A GAY PERSON IS NOT DICTATED BY MONEYSO, WHAT DO ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WH MY IEND AND HIS RELATNSHIP? WELL, WHEN HE APPROACHED ME WH THE IA THAT HE “ISN’T WORTHY OF LOVE” BEE OF HIS FANCIAL BACKGROUND, I WAS PRETTY DISAPPOTED. MD YOU, THE AREN’T THGS HIS PARTNER VOICED TO HIM; THIS WAS HIS NCERN RULTG OM AN TERNAL SECURY OVER HIS “VALUE” AS A GAY MAN WHO DID NOT E OM A SIAR LEVEL OF WEALTH. IT MA ME THK ABOUT HOW FANCIAL SUCCS AND SELF-WORTH ARE, AT LEAST WH THE GAY MUNY, HIGHLY RRELATED, AND THIS STUDY PRETTY MUCH PROV .IT’S CREDIBLY TRATG TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE MEN OUT THERE ALREADY UNTG THEMSELV OUT WHEN TO LOVE, FOR SOMETHG AS IMPERMANENT AS MONEY. WHILE I REGNIZE THAT MUCH OF THIS NCERN WH MATERIALY IS TIED TO THE ANXIETY OF GROWG UP GAY, AND FEELG “FERR” TO THE RT OF THE WORLD, ’S UNFORTUNATE AND DISAPPOTG THAT OUR QUEER SIBLGS ARE HURTG FOR SOMETHG SO SUPERFICIAL. I CHALLENGE ANY QUEERS LISTENG -- AND EVEN ANY STRAIGHTS, AS THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY A LARGER PROBLEM WH OUR MATERIAL SOCIETY -- TO FIXATE LS ON THE MATERIAL AND THE IMAGE OF SUCCS, AND STEAD FD THE PEOPLE AND THGS THAT TLY ADD VALUE TO YOUR LIFE.SUBSCRIBE NOW

Among other gay billnair on this list, you'll fd entertament moguls cludg David Geffen.

He also vted Facebook and asked for his opn on why more CEOs aren't openly gay, Thiel said, "A lot of the bs are global reach, and when you have ctomers all over the world, be a qutn of ‘Will they hold that (beg gay) agast you?

He officially me out as gay 2015.

GAY RICH MEN

4%, of the globe's 1, 645 billnair openly intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Among the openly-gay hyper-wealthy are Domeni Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the duo behd fashn power hoe Dolce & Gabbana. Some of the bsmen and women have ed their fortun to advote for gay rights.

5% of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr; statistilly, 19 of Ameri’s 492 billnair should intify as such. Billnair have exprsed their allegiance for their gay dghters and sons fancially: hedge fund billnaire Pl Sger has given more than $10 ln to support marriage equaly – his gay son, Andrew, tied the knot – while Progrsive surance’s Peter Lewis, recently ceased, donated $250, 000 to the Gay & Lbian Victory Fund 2008, as my lleague Clare O’Connor noted.