Peter Thiel tells Republican convention: 'I am proud to be gay'
by Ben Jacobs in Cleveland from Technology | The Guardian on (#1N3J0)
Thiel, the mogul who helped to found PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, brushed off concerns over his party's anti-LGBT platform
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel became the first openly gay speaker since 2000 at the Republican national convention on Thursday, just days after the GOP passed one of the most conservative platforms in its party's history.
Thiel, the controversial mogul who helped to found PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, to cheers said: "I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all I am proud to be an American."
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