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Fabulis.com founder Jason Goldberg heralds the rise of the gay geek
 
What’s the hottest trend in gayville these days? You might be surprised. It’s not sequins. It’s not leather. It’s not partying until the next afternoon. It’s not even Gaga. It’s geek.
 
That’s right. Geek is hot.
 
In 2010, there’s nothing hotter than a guy who follows you, friends you, tweets, tags, texts, checks in, votes you up and spends his virtual bits to express how fab he thinks you are.
 
Want to get me going? Talk to me about your motherboard. Show me your hard drive. Speak to me in ruby and in rails. Give me some PHP and some SQL. Let me see you Wordpress. Tumblr. Invite me to feed your fish and rub your crops. Formspring.me. Digg me. Like me. Random roulette cam me. Sign up for a power play. Make like Kurt and Glee on me. Go viral on me. Be my 5001st friend. Unleash your privacy to me. Let me touch your FourSquare and play with your Gowalla. Bend over and TechCrunch for me. Lick my USB stick. Pet my iPad. And, boy, you better Yelp if you like it.
 
Remember back in high school when you wondered what would it be like if the geeks ruled? Wonder no more. Our time is now. The world’s gone geek. Smart is the new sexy. Techie is the new model.
 
I’m super-proud to be a gay geek and I’m thrilled to see other gay geeks rising up and showing themselves all over the world. As someone who’s been working in technology companies for 15 years now, I must say that I used to feel like the only gay in the village. For a long time gay and geek didn’t mix too well; the tech world was largely a straight-boys playground. But, in the last couple of years, all that has changed. Suddenly, geek is it. Now, I’m constantly hearing from gay guys who are starting their own technology companies or going to work for a startup. You can’t go 30 minutes today without hearing someone talk about his or her favorite social network. And everyone I know would rather be working on the next social media game changer. And one thing that’s really cool about all this is that smarts rule. In a geek-run world, there’s nothing sexier than a smart guy who has his shit together. That rocks.    N
 
Jason Goldberg is the founder of Fabulis.com. For more info visit Fabulis.com/Jason-Goldberg.