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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • It’s hard to say, it doesn’t seem like the CEO of Apple being openly gay has detracted from the popularity of the brand.
    And as we have seen with Elon Musk and Tesla, an unpopular CEO definitely can detract from the popularity of a brand.
    There has been no such reaction against Apple.
    So my guess is, that it is possible, but it obviously depends on the candidate.

    If you had asked a few years before Obama was elected if a colored president would be possible, I would probably have guessed no. But Obama proved it was in fact possible when he got elected in 2008.

    I think if the right person comes along, he or she can win disregarding color sexuality or gender.
    Of the 3, it seems to me that currently not being a man is probably the biggest handicap.

    But in time politics will be dominated by women, the trend where I live (Denmark) is pretty clear, women will most likely dominate within a few decades. Just recently all the Scandinavian Prime ministers were Women. To me that was a very clear sign of a trend towards more women in politics, and more women gaining leading positions too.

    We also had a gay man as a pretty popular leader of the conservatives of Denmark. So it is not much of a stretch to say a gay man could absolutely become Prime Minister here. No issue whatsoever.
    USA might be a bit harder, but not impossible.