Apple and Steve Jobs have long been champns for Gay Rights | Network World

Contents:

• THE RNER CLOSET: WHY THERE ARE SO FEW GAY AND TRANSGENR EXECUTIV RPORATE AMERI
• APPLE RANKS SEND GAY-IENDLY PANI
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS

THE RNER CLOSET: WHY THERE ARE SO FEW GAY AND TRANSGENR EXECUTIV RPORATE AMERI

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Gente says the rner closet nudged open 2014 when Apple’s Tim Cook, lear of one of the world’s most inic brands, clared “I’m proud to be gay. “A lear of his stature and the thenticy of his msage were so movg to so many gay Amerins and alli. ”But progrs has remaed slow sce Cook beme the first publicly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 pany, particularly dtri outsi fashn, media and entertament.

APPLE RANKS SEND GAY-IENDLY PANI

Jt two others today publicly intify as gay asi om Gente and Cook: Dow’s Jim Fterlg and Land O’ Lak’ Beth Ford.

3% of Amerins siar age to the CEOs say they are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. They didn't keep rights movement transforms workplaceThe gay rights movement has led to substantial chang the workplace a relatively short perd of time, says Lee Badgett, an enomics profsor at the Universy of Massachetts more LGBTQ employe opened up about their inti and formed employee rource groups and as lawsus raised the prsure, rporatns extend benefs to same-sex upl and created anti-discrimatn polici the 1990s. 7% of people Generatn Z – those born om 1997 to 2004 – intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr pared wh jt 3.

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JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

”People who belong to multiple unrreprented groups, such as Black gay people or transgenr women, face even bigger hurdl. “You put yourself at risk the event that beg an out lear creat an addnal Irv worked on Wall Street, she was often the only gay woman the room. Ziegler told the mtee thatl he cid to e forward publicly “not as a hero or a victim, ” but as a married, gay Democrat “pelled to disclose the tth.

A recent study of 2, 259 people aged 18 to 64 (1, 502 straight and 757 gay) found Apple to be the send most gay-iendly pany behd the Bravo televisn work, acrdg to MacNN. Apparently “23 percent of the general populatn and 39 percent of the gay/lbian group [lled] the pany ‘strongly’ gay-iendly.

Other gay-iendly brands clu Showtime, HBO, Absolut, and Levi’s.

APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS

The least gay-iendly brands clu Walmart, Dunk Donuts, Cracker Barrel, Exxon Mobil, and Samsung.

Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay. Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward. The pany, whose CEO, Tim Cook, is the natn’s most visible gay executive, has ployed s lobbyists to oppose legislatn that lims protectns for trans and gay people or their fai Iowa, Florida, Texas and at least six other stat.

The pro-LGBTQ group Equaly Florida said an email that s staff hadn’t noticed any of Apple’s lobbyg agast the new state law that rtricts teachers om talkg about genr and sexualy the classroom, which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.