9 science and technology gay celebritiesare who are changing the world

Now most of the homosexuals, bisexuals or transgender people because of work or social perception of the problem, choose to hide their gender orientation, such a situation in the technology industry will appear, women equal rights, stereotypes of the problem is no different.

But there are a lot of gender-friendly work environment, like Google on the full payment of gay employees health insurance tax, Twitter has a similar benefits, and even strict "anti-discrimination" provisions.

In addition to these large companies do not talk about the past few years, science and technology industry celebrities have also come out of the cabinet, the following nine dedicated to the gay movement of science and technology celebrities, they want to prove to the community, gender orientation will not affect their ability or life the elements of!

Facebook founder Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes left Facebook in 2007, turned to Obama as the first presidential campaign line integration headquarters commander, became the driving force behind the victory of Obama. 

And then in 2010 the creation of social welfare site Jumo, to collect information on the need for assistance around the world, and Juro website fundraising, such as Haitian children's medical aid, teaching Afghan women literacy, to help Kenya plant drought and other crops, there are 300,000 Person who responds to the donation plan.

Hughes is now the publisher and editor-in-chief of the American editorial newspaper The New Republic, married to Sean Eldridge, president of investment firm Hudson River Ventures last June. Sean Eldridge is also the policy director of civil society Freedom to Marry, And comrades right.

Toktumi founder Peter Sisson

Sisson in 2008 to create a communications integration system Toktumi, its most famous is the Line2 communication App, it is like Skype to send voice messages based on the network, but also allows Pad to become integrated phone, message, voice messaging platform, in addition to To help many business people with a machine, the private number and commercial number as a mobile phone.

He has said that it may be difficult to be an entrepreneur in an identity, but he is still in San Francisco, where there is no prejudice and discrimination in the comrades, and no one is acting as a comrade

Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal

He is one of the founders of PayPal, an online transaction payment platform, and a highly successful venture capitalist and hedge fund manager. When eBay bought PayPal, the outside world estimated that according to Thiel's shares received about $ 55 million; in 2004 he invested Facebook, shares worth about $ 500,000.

In the gay movement, Thiel's long-term commitment to the American Foundation for Equity and the organization of comrades as the starting point of the organization GOProud, has always been openly called for a more liberal, more diversified society.

Google's vice president of business development, Megan Smith

Megan Smith has been in contact with Google since 1998 and is now vice president of business development for Google and president of PlanetOut, which offers a wide range of open spaces for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and other ethnic groups Can interact with each other on the platform.

Smith has been married to journalist Kara Swisher and has two little boys.

Twitter Senior Systems Engineer Dana Contreras

Contreras within two and a half years quickly become Twitter's senior system engineer, transgender identity (also known as transgender people) in the open Twitter is not a problem, the company even support his spiritual source.

5 years ago, Contreras had been married to Melissa, now his wife, before surgery.

Tom Bates of famous bloggers

Known as one of the earliest science and technology bloggers, he had a very powerful website plasticbag.org, mainly to write community software, database, local services and other issues, but in 2010, he left Yahoo did not write.

Coates also worked in London programming marathon, the assembly of many programmers in a few days to co-write programs and applications, has also counseled a number of new companies such as Lanyrd, etc.

Male gay dating platform Grindr founder Joel Simkhai

In 2009, Simkhai (left) created Grindr, a man of evil little software. The App is the most popular platform for male comrades, and it is said that there are now up to 4 million users, ranging from 192 countries, and it is no exaggeration. Of each male comrades are in use, I believe that the use of a lot of people in Taiwan.

Simkhai said he would be subject to comrades in the beginning, that he could not succeed, after all, there was no high achievement gay can do example. Now there are celebrities out of the cabinet, of course, he is one of them, Simkhai hope that their experience can inspire gay seniors.

Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg

Goldberg is Fab.com founder and chief executive, initially Fab.com is just a comrade exchange network, and later transformed into a design and development and e-commerce site, organized, large-scale sale of many creative life, last year But also by the rich world as one of the top ten technology companies.

Last year, he and his colleague Brian Ellner issued The Four 2012, who called for comrades to marry, and Goldberg and his current husband, Christian Schoenherr, married the same year.

Linux International Director Jon Hall

Jon Hall is Director of Linux International, and Linux International is a nonprofit organization that promotes Linux open source software. Last year, he selected the mathematician and information scientist Alan Turing home when the 100-year-old out of the cabinet, some people feel very surprised and curious, he said, to the age of the cabinet is mainly want to tell young people they are not alone, And the situation is better for comrades.