Why Are There No Openly Gay Fortune 500 CEOs?

Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times asked a very important question this morning: how did professional football–the very epitome of a traditional industry averse to change–embrace an openly gay personality before corporate America?

Her point is that, despite widely-accepted rumors about certain executives at certain tech companies, not one of the nation’s 1,000 biggest businesses has an openly gay CEO.

We asked Howard Bragman, Chairman of Fifteen Minutes PR–who happens to represent Michael Sam–for his take on the issue.

Bragman writes:

Like women and people of color, openly gay CEOs have far too few seats at the head of the table.