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APPLE CEO TIM COOK OUT: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'

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Apple CEO Tim Cook me out Thursday, acknowledgg publicly for the first time that he is gay.

"Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, " he wrote a lumn Bloomberg Bsweek. "So if hearg that the CEO of Apple is gay n help someone stgglg to e to terms wh who he or she is, or brg fort to anyone who feels alone, or spire people to sist on their equaly, then 's worth the tra-off wh my own privacy.

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" Related: Tim Cook isn't the only openly gay CEO Cook, who grew up Alabama, said he has long been open about his sexual orientatn, but had jt not prevly discsed publicly. "Plenty of lleagu at Apple know I'm gay, and don't seem to make a difference the way they treat me, " he wrote.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'

" There have been some mors and speculatn that Cook is gay.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Out magaze had prevly named him as the most powerful gay person on s Power 50 list.