Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Wall Street's Secret Gay Society

I came across this article from NY Magazine that some may find interesting gay men and women in male dominated environment; specifically the hegemonic worlds of high finance and business:

"How many gays and lesbians are there on Wall Street? James J. Cramer, the seemingly omnipresent and omniscient hedge-fund manager, can't name any. Jessica Reif Cohen, the top-ranked analyst of entertainment and media stocks, doesn't know any gays at her firm, Merrill Lynch, which has nearly 10,000 employees in New York City alone. Within the broader community of research analysts, "there's only one person I even think is gay," she adds: a middle-aged guy who supposedly lives with his mother, a fact that has provoked gossip at his firm because "almost everyone else is married with children."

Read more:
http://nymag.com/nymetro/urban/gay/features/911/index1.html

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