{"id":80913,"date":"2026-02-28T08:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80913"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:25:26","slug":"secular-report-gay-men-running-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/secular-report-gay-men-running-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Need: Gay Men Running Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Wired <\/em>[caution, explicit]:<\/p>\n

by Zo\u00eb Bernard<\/span><\/p>\n

No one can\u00a0say exactly when, or if, gay men started running Silicon Valley. They seem to have dominated its upper ranks at least the past five years, maybe more. On platforms like X, the clues are there: whispers of private-island retreats, tech executives going \u201cgay for clout,\u201d and the suggestion that a \u201cseed round\u201d is not, strictly speaking, a financial term. It is an idea so taken for granted, in fact, that when I call up a well-connected hedge fund manager to ask his thoughts about what is sometimes referred to in industry circles as the \u201cgay tech mafia,\u201d he audibly yawns. \u201cOf course,\u201d he says. \u201cThis has always been the case.\u201d<\/div>\n
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It had been the case, the hedge funder says, back in 2012, when he was raising money from a venture capitalist whose office was staffed with dozens of \u201cattractive, strong young men,\u201d all of whom were \u201cunder 30\u201d and looked as though they had freshly decamped from \u201cthe high school debate club.\u201d \u201cThey were all sleeping with each other and starting companies,\u201d he says. And it is absolutely the case now, he adds, when gay men are running influential companies in\u00a0Silicon Valley<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and maintain entire social calendars with scarcely a straight man, much less a woman, in sight.<\/div>\n
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Ever since I started covering Silicon Valley in 2017, I\u2019ve heard variations of this rumor\u2014that \u201cgays,\u201d as an AI founder named Emmett Chen-Ran has quipped, \u201crun this joint.\u201d On its face, a gay tech mafia seemed too dumb to warrant actual investigative inquiry. Sure, there were gay men in high places: Peter Thiel, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Keith Rabois, the list went on. But the idea that they were operating some kind of shadowy cabal seemed born entirely of homophobia, the indulgence of which might play into the hands of conspiracy-minded conservatives like\u00a0Laura Loomer<\/a>,<\/span> who, in 2024, tweeted that the \u201chigh tech VC world just seems to be one big, exploitative gay mafia.\u201d Over time, though, the rumor refused to die, eventually curdling into something closer to conventional wisdom. Last spring, at a venture capitalist\u2019s party in Southern California, a middle-aged investor complained to me at length about how he was struggling to raise his new fund. The problem, he explained, boiled down to discrimination.<\/div>\n
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