Is nate silver gay

Nate Silver says his friends would describe him as "sexually gay but ethnically straight" in a new interview with Out magazine, who named the American statistician "Person of the Year" in its new issue. Nate is a statistician and writer focused on American politics and sports, and a longtime friend from the blog days. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, and now he writes his own substack, Silver Bulletin. For two clips of our convo — on the pluralism of gay social networks, why poker is so male — pop over to our YouTube page.

Nate Silver Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, ) is an American statistician, political analyst, author, sports gambler, and poker player who analyzes baseball, basketball and elections. I was raised in East Lansing, Michigan. It was a great place to grow up: a college town with good public schools, a beautiful campus, a modicum of diversity, and an active, walkable downtown. But I came along just a few years too soon I was born in to really consider coming out as gay when growing up.

“To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight,” Silver said. Among those interested in Silver’s characterization was a sociologist named Amin Ghaziani, who has written a. This year Out has named Nate Silver its man of the year. This is very cool. I had no clue Silver was gay.

After a successful year running the FiveThirtyEight blog, the blogger talks to Out magazine about how he identifies as a gay man. On being a gay nerd: To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay. Nate Silver is, frankly, disgusting. He learned enough from his undergraduate study of economics about statistics to get into statistics as a profession. That's admirable and he's had success with that.