Why aren't there more gay men in NYC Finance?

Grumpy Thread

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I've known plenty of gay guys who do...they're not all hot, but they are there

Because they don’t need to work to get $$$. They coast by on their looks in their 20s and 30s and then realize they have nothing to fall back on in their 40s. The fuglies know they need to work to get ahead on their own steam.

[quote] I don't know if the guys in the pic work in finance, but maybe they do.

Actually OP, the men in the photo are neurosurgeons, the photo was taken at the American Academy of Neurosurgery conference in Naples, Florida earlier this year.

Dr. David Goldstein, the guy in the center, has been doing some really breakthrough work on neuroplasticity.

OP, I know for a fact that the men in that picture are, from left to right, an archeologist, a nuclear engineer, and an Orthodox monk.

Those three in OP's photo are HARDCORE scene queen.

Young, good-looking gay men in my city work as "financial advisers" on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. They sound very qualified on how I should spend my money too.

Gay men are more at home in the service industry.

They are, they just work as boring accountants, not the loaded investment bankers that you probably have in mind.

The CEO of Apple is GAY. We work in finance but we’re nerds not muscleboys.

R9 well all the NYC banks are always touting how lgbtq friendly they are and pining for the annual award of "best place to work for gays."

R5 That gave me a nice laugh. Thank you.

Most bankers are right winged deplorables...

Do you guys remember a gay guy who worked in finance and sued a bank in nyc for discrimination and got millions? He opened a bar in the hamptoms if my memory serves...i wonder what happened to him? it's been at least a decade

I remember seeing some documentary years ago with a gay NY finance guy talking about the extreme homophobia in the industry and how he’d been openly harassed and physically bullied by his coworkers. I can’t remember now what the documentary was

The guy in the middle is a Russian fitness model.

My partner and I both spent our careers in NYC finance jobs. There are tons of gay men in the industry though it is not an easy fit. The industry rewards traditionally masculine qualities like assertiveness, sales skills and smooth talk about golf, football and very straight, suburban family stuff

The industry is also also global in scope and there are just not nearly as many openly gay people in Europe and particularly in Asia. As a result, it’s harder to build easy, natural connections with people who have similar personal lives.

In US banks and investment houses, you’ll find more gay men in Marketing, HR, PR, Legal, and Compliance roles as opposed to bankers and other front office sales jobs or technology.

[quote] not nearly as many openly gay people in Europe

That's the opposite of what I would have expected. Why is this so?

For the same reason there aren’t a lot of women - because it’s a miserable, demanding, unpleasant job that requires complete devotion and submission of all other things in life to the job. Gay men and women tend not to have their deep seeded insecurity /neurosis fulfilled by Wall St.

I did it for 20+ years and I don’t recommend anyone do it unless they really, really want to make money, it’s the only way to stay motivated to dedicate your life to the job.

What a wacko you are OP. But there was a guy who was working with my on my financial matters and boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off him. I could detect his nips under his crisp white shirt.

What R15 said. Finance is very douchebro central and traders in particular are homophobic assholes.

[quote]I could detect his nips under his crisp white shirt.

Hawt.

I was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch in NYC, and can tell you there are many, MANY gay men and women in finance. The majority are in operations or back office jobs. I was totally out as a gay man, and can honestly say I never felt and sort of discrimination or animosity because of my sexuality. I was good at what I did, was a team player, worked stupid long hours, and made Mother Merrill, and myself, a lot of money. I retired when I was 40, and would do it again in a heartbeat. Not sure what it’s like in a Flyovastan city.

Those men are nurses I think. One of them lives in San Diego.

R23 top or bottom?

Cut or uncut?

Ugh, there are so many Donald, Donald Jr./Patrick Bateman, Jared Kushner types in NYC finance. All ultra-competitive, megalomaniacal, criminal straight losers trying to compensate for inner rot with ostentatious money money money.

look up Ty Litzleman, he is NYC finance, just off the farm in Indiana, and is a total hunk.......

R25 Top

R29 We need more Finance Tops.

Plenty of gays in finance. Even more lesbians in finance.

Your gaydar needs to be adjusted, OP.

R28 how do you know Ty Litzleman?!

r32, he worked for me as an intern...........wowza........what a cutie........

I just looked him up.

Hunk?

He’s very attractive in a twinkish sense. Hunk, though?

I find lots of financial advisors on rent.men. They usually take $250 deposits. Some deposit into you.

The one on the left looks like Joey Lawrence, with better eyebrows.

This is the most tenuous excuse yet for starting a thread with a pic of hot guys. Bipolar almost.

Plenty of Gay finance bros in New York .

There is a TON of sexy Finance men & women in NYC. Where are you looking at? There are lots of older men& women in Finance too(some have lost their fortune several times over). Lots of gay men and women work in the background (attorneys, analysts, accountants, good staff workers) My 1st boss only allowed me Female interns& staff, because he knew I was GAY (married to a very wealthy woman). He knew I wouldn't be tempted to Fuck them. Men...another story. In NYC now for work, really hot guys-women but Msking MONEY makes me hard.

I know quite a few hot gays in finance. They are masculine men so no one gives them grief, not for being gay. Some are in the closet too. Only effeminate gays experience homophobia as in any other field.

The guy in the middle looks familiar, does he do gay porn?

Isn't the guy in the middle Pietro Boselli?

r42.......yes

I sucked off a lot of Wall Street guys at the bookstore in the financial district. Very hot guys. Lunch times and after work were the best.

^^I'm insanely jealous.

R44 which bookstores still exist in FiDi?

What bookstores...I need to know seriously!! Cheap, sleazy, impersonal, dirty hot sex...I am sooo there.

I wouldn’t be caught dead in a fleece vest and khakis.

R48 how about a sports blazer and some ironed jeans?

Can you wear Allbirds with ironed jeans?

Logan, gay banking/finance bro

Serving young Wolverine realness

R45 to 47 There was the Wall Street Sauna on Maiden Lane and Ann Street Bookstore. There were others west of Broadway too. I’m not sure any of them exist anymore.

R51 The ceiling in that room looks really low and I don't know how I feel about that chair.

R54: he’s young, just starting out. At least he gets to live on his own, which seems to be increasingly impossible, if some of the recent DL threads on housing in post-pandemic NYC are accurate

r42 r43 Pietro Boselli in the middle in OP's pic? I don't think so. He's got the body and the same color hair, but he doesn't look like Pietro otherwise. If you have proof, though, please let us know.

Keep those DL priorities, r54.

I luv ya!

R55 he gay?

R58: yes

R59 excellent.

Logan’s Instagram account, @ifrealitywereadream, is currently set to Private. But if y’all are interested, y’all can always try and request for permission

He should just let his beard grow naturally instead of shaving it into a specific shape. Looks a bit odd but he is handsome otherwise.

Lack of testosterone tbh

Naples, Florida is flat as a pancake.

You can have a highly-paid job in finance, where all of your energy will go and you will live to work. Or you can have a lot of time for the gym and have a good body. You can’t have both.

Maybe they moved into tech. In every tech job I’ve held in NYC roughly ~40% of all engineering staff were gay men. Good money and lots of free time (especially post-COVID WFH.)

For anyone actually interested in the guys they are: Aleksandr Krupnov,, David Lurs and Alkesander Dorokhov

Irishmen.

Used to go by the handle @bricksandmortar on Instagram, but no longer active

And not in NYC: a gay Aussie finance bro based mainly in London

Younger days

Controversial because of his unPC sense of humor. Quite intelligent but to everyone’s taste

See this for a sample of his ironic ‘wit’

R71 ehhh..... I know you put it in quotes, but that's not funny wit to me. That's just low hanging fruit. Anyone can do it. I've seen more wit on DL....

So there is someone here that follows all the finance bros on instagram? How do you find them?

R73: as far as I know, there aren’t so many hot/cute gay finance bros on Instagram.

Logan and @bricksandmortal are the only two I know, and follow[ed]

R72: there are/were better examples of his quite cunty/acerbic wit, but unfortunately he deleted his account last year, and the one at r71 was the only one I could find that’s still available online, that’s why

[quote] there aren’t so many hot/cute gay finance bros on Instagram.

Sorry I need to qualify this. There could be lots of hot gay finance bros, but It’s just that I personally haven’t come across them, or their Instagram accounts

[quote]he deleted his account last year,

That's probably for the best if he wants to have a career in NYC Finance. If he said something online that rubbed a co-worker the wrong way, he could easily be fired.

R76: I think that’s exactly what happened, things were getting a bit heated about the Instagram stories he was posting

Btw, as stated above somewhere, he’s an Aussie working mostly in London, not NYC

In 90s NYC, finance was the main money game. Now you can make good money in tech - so gay and straight young guys head there. Wall Street is still old school hierarchy. You are on call and effectively enslaved by your job - which it seems married straight guys with kids don’t mind because it fulfills their ego and their home lives are miserable. But even they are less abundant than they used to be. There is a certain machismo that is connected with the self-sacrifice and endurance required - which is why women especially with kids don’t stick to it. Gay men who want a fun, fulfilling life - and don’t have kids and a wife to support - opt out relatively early too.

Just remembered, one more: Tucker, investment bro @tuckpbrown

Tucker with his beautiful Argentinian model/producer bf, Marcos

It’s rather like the kind of hetero storylines that one heard about while growing up: the affluent finance bro with his trophy model girlfriend.

Except in this case it’s Boyfriend

[quote]I've seen more wit on DL....

I’ve got to remember to cover up more.

[quote] Now you can make good money in tech - so gay and straight young guys head there.

Where do the not so young but not 40 but quickly approaching it gay guys go?

R80 he looks a bit Henry Cavilly from that angle.

Hideous hunchback on the right.

To R15. There still is "lots of Homophobia" in NYC stock market-financial district. BITD (back in the day) 1985-86, it was "destroy or be destroyed-Dog eat dog". I had a Jewish wunder-kid attack me a baseball bat when I was getting more paper at 9pm. I took the shot to my head, turned around and grabbed him by the throat, ready to rip out his throat with my teeth. It took 4 guys to get him away from me biting him. They called me Vampyre(this spelling) or Drac. The sexy Latin Maintenace man called me all the time for yrs after that incident. . Other incidents with bullies involved 2 guys I had fights with getting jumped-badly beaten with baseball bats. Word got around that "bad stuff" happened to guys who fucked with me.The bullying stopped with me. I have so many more stories to tell you all on DL.

^ to above, it was a WASP old boys' network& Jewish old boy's network in the stock market in the 1980's. I had 2 things going for me. !st, I was nerdy math genius who did the numbers in my head(never wrong) and 2nd, my wife was related to 3 of the richest American families in the Western Hemisphere (1 midwest-2 Canadian). It's alot different now in finance, but you need to work hard,make money for ur company (and urself). It's a 24/7/365 money game. Lots of gay sex with stressed out hott men(they don't talk about it-camera everywhere though nowadays,all on the internet). I could go for hours about the stock market& how they treat people, make money, finding friends(?).

That Litzleman guy is mercenary! Because how does a kid from IU end up on the Street? I see he first made his way to DC for a real estate internship. I’m guessing the right “encounters” and strategic visits to NYC during that time have put him in his great position. So there’s another (unknown) gay finance man, OP: the one(s) fucking Litzleman.

Step away from the porn, R87.

Mr Litzelman @ty_litzelman seems a bit tired out

^ Gorgeous legs though

An army boy before Wall Street

OP- Those are FUCKIN UGLY bodies.

Not a banker, but from previous experience in the Finance (banking) sector as a software engineer - they are very traditional, very old-old school, very homogenous, soul-draining and cling to old technology for dear life! The same can be said for the Insurance companies.

Marketing, publishing and digital agencies are a much better fit for a GWM.

R93- Florist, Hairstylist and Choreographer are also good fits for a GWM

R89 so weird and creepy how people take these "sleeping" pictures. I remember when if someone took a picture of you sleeping it was disturbing but now it's meant to be sexy.

How many different places did he set up the camera and test it out? How many poses did he do? How many pictures did he take before finding the "one." So much effort to look effortless.

Indiana University has actually become a big feeder school for Wall Street slaves. Good training programs that let them start their 80 hour week Excel work right away. Maybe not the most well rounded - but for the first few years, all that’s required is endurance, diligence, not complaining and devoting your life to work.

One more Logan

^ Oops wrong pic

Multitasking

anticapitalism and pseudo communism came into vogue once again as we've moved from homophiles to gay liberation... while the political lesbians were abandoned, their brand of pseudointellectualism lived on in the people that only wanted to tune out, drop out and fuck, fuck, fuck.

these days to admit you're a capitalist is to admit you're not gay

because being gay is only political.

now go get your toaster and avocado toast.

So weird and random to see a non-finance friend posted in this thread.

To R100. WTF did you just post& could you translate that into English, please!!

To R98- Who is DAT? He looks like "dinner and a movie" to me!! I like him.

ToR96-You are correct, there are alot of really good "non-Ivy League" colleges& Universities that feed the Wall Street Financial institutions. However, you have to develop your talents-put up with the bullshit, Working 100 hours a week. It's a 24-7-365 work environment now on Wall Street. You need to polish your skills with your clients) listening to what THEY want, not what you want).

R101: you mean the gorgeous Dr Balog at r97?

R102: he’s Logan. Scroll up to about r51 to see previous discussion about him

I was openly gay in finance in NYC in the 80s. I was also tall and classically handsome. I had fancy degrees and impeccable connections and I was a very hard worker, but did not have the natural shark/predator character for success in the money making tracks. The testosteroned sharks are extremely intelligent and fast thinkers. I could have stayed but kept being pushed into the softer activities - shoved into private banking or research for example. I don't think many gays have all the elements necessary for success in the investment side of finance, but they can certainly start in finance if they choose. You just have to check the right boxes.

To R104, He looked completely different. that's why I asked?

Love the hairy chest, just out of bed look on him.

R106: OIC. Well what about this one?