Apple CEO Tim Cook out: 'I'm proud to be gay'

Contents:

• MAN SU APPLE CLAIMG IPHONE TURNED HIM GAY
• THE RNER CLOSET: WHY THERE ARE SO FEW GAY AND TRANSGENR EXECUTIV RPORATE AMERI
• APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK OUT: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK SAID HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY AFTER READG LETTERS OM KIDS STGGLG WH THEIR INTY
• MOSW MAN SUG APPLE BEE HIS IPHONE TURNED HIM GAY
• APPLE’S TIM COOK SAYS HE IS GAY. HERE’S A REMR THAT NOT EVERYONE IS PLEASED.
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK OUT AS GAY: I'M PROUD
• RSIAN POLICE INVTIGATE APPLE OVER GAY EMOJIS

MAN SU APPLE CLAIMG IPHONE TURNED HIM GAY

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

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"He adds that his "life has been changed for the worse" and he "will never bee normal aga" "phed" him "towards homosexualy through manipulatn", he claims. O) Chief Executive Office Tim Cook raised ncern on Thursday over LGBTQ laws the Uned Stat, maly those foced on young people that opponents refer to as "don't say gay" legislatn.

APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS

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. Supporters of the new law say would ensure that the state’s youngt stunts learn about sexual orientatn and genr inty om their parents and not at school, but opponents say will create a hostile environment for gay and transgenr children or children om LGBTQ fai.

“The efficy of makg big public statements is lower than ed to be, ” said Jsi Shortall, managg director of the gay rights bs group Texas Compet. He says public disapproval of homosexualy ma many the gay muny wary of intifyg themselv at work, pecially durg the AIDS/HIV crisis. “Not seeg other gay people who were above me rank, I knew uld potentially hold back my reer.

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

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 CEO TIM COOK SAID HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY AFTER READG LETTERS OM KIDS STGGLG WH THEIR INTY

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.

MOSW MAN SUG APPLE BEE HIS IPHONE TURNED HIM GAY

A history on how the flag me to beGay and transgenr employe bump up agast 'lavenr ceilg'But wh too few mentors, sponsors and alli, there’s still prsure to hi sexual orientatn or genr inty at work, she said. They live and work areas of the untry where beg their whole selv at work uld put them at risk, pecially as nservativ ph legislatn targetg the gay and transgenr there’s the risk of bumpg up agast the “lavenr ceilg, ” which keeps gay and transgenr employe om jobs for which they qualify and om dog their jobs at the level they are pable of, said Badgett, thor of “The Enomic Case for LGBT Equaly: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefs Us All. ”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. A look back at how Apple and Steve Jobs have long been champns for Gay Rights. Apple, along wh a slew of other pani, recently leant s support to a recent filg on gay marriage that will soon be prented before the U.

APPLE’S TIM COOK SAYS HE IS GAY. HERE’S A REMR THAT NOT EVERYONE IS PLEASED.

We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposn 8 — we should not elimate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexualy, to marry the person they 8 asi, here are some other exampl of Apple stickg up for Gay kicks hateful apps to the curbIn Febary 2011, a Christian group lled Exod Internatnal released an app on the iTun App Store lled "Gay Cure.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK OUT AS GAY: I'M PROUD

" As the name impli, the app was meant to "helpg homosexual stgglers. " And if you take a look at the Exod Internatnal webse, they appear to be an anizatn oddly obssed wh "curg" homosexual app somehow ma past Apple's review procs, wh a 4+ ratg no ls. Notably, this wasn't the first time Apple removed an app for s stance on homosexualy.

"Apple has a gay-iendly reputatn and rporate cultureIn a 2008 survey nducted by PlaOut, nearly 40% of gay and lbian rponnts dited that they strongly nsir Apple to be gay-iendly. Amongst all brands, Apple me send, cedg the top spot to the Bravo TV for those keepg track at home, Samsung the survey was at the bottom of the heap, tg only a 4% favorable rponse om wh the release of iOS 6, Apple clud emotins pictg gay and lbian upl holdg hands.

A tax break which was origally slated for Apple was subsequently taken away after Williamson County exprsed disapproval of Apple's equal rights policy for gays.

RSIAN POLICE INVTIGATE APPLE OVER GAY EMOJIS

Williamson County, however, soon changed their tune amidst much Jobs stands up for gay rightsBut one of the more touchg exampl of Apple's support for gay rights volv Steve Jobs Steve Jobs passed away, former NeXT and Apple employee Ronald Hayn wrote a post tailg his first experience wh Jobs back the 1980s. A uple of months later they turned that to verage for all gay employe at NeXT. Of urse, Apple is hardly alone s support of gay rights.

As one of only a handful of gay stunts at his high school ral Utah, Mih was stgglg wh prsn, anxiety, and social isolatn.

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.