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SAP Berlin marched for the first time in the Berlin Christopher Street Day Parade on June 27. Google, Airbnb, Uber, Yelp, Salesforce and Facebook also participated - joined by legions of smaller a global LGBT employee network, showed their pride around the world. Other Silicon Valley giants joined the march including Apple, headed by openly gay CEO Tim Cook, who marched with 8000 employees. I was part of the 300 person contingent that represented all five SAP Silicon Valley campuses. This past weekend SAP marched for the first time in the 45th San Francisco LGBT Pride parade. On Friday, June 26, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex marriage is right nationwide, joining approximately 20 other countries in liberalizing marriage laws.
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The crowd applauded after Thiel said the words "I am proud to be gay" and cheered louder, some on their feet, as he kept going, about his pride in his party and in being an American. But fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline." I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform. But most of all, I am proud to be an American. "Of course, every American has a unique identity," he continued. Who cares?" Thiel told the Republican convention on Thursday, referring to the debate over new laws restricting the use of bathrooms by transgender people. This a distraction from our real problems.
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"We are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom.
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Politics Trump And Pence Face Divide On Women's Health And LGBT Issues This campaign season, as the New York Times puts it, Thiel is also "the most prominent public face of a species so endangered it might as well be called extinct: the Silicon Valley Trump supporter" - and at that, an openly gay one. Peter Thiel (pronounced "teel") is an eccentric character in Silicon Valley: a legendary financier and co-founder of PayPal an early investor and current board member of Facebook a Stanford-educated billionaire who pays students to drop out of college and do entrepreneurial work a staunch libertarian who poured millions into Ron Paul's 2012 presidential bid.Įarlier this year, he made headlines as the sponsor of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against news and gossip site Gawker, which outed Thiel as gay in 2007. In an apparent first, a Republican convention speaker on Thursday took the stage during the final, most high-profile night, just minutes before the nominee himself, and uttered these words: "I am proud to be gay." Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, delivers a speech during the final evening session of the Republican National Convention.