Tim Cook: 'I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me' | Tim Cook | The Guardian

Contents:

• WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY
• TIM COOK: BEG GAY IS GOD’S GREATT GIFT TO ME
• THE RNER CLOSET: WHY THERE ARE SO FEW GAY AND TRANSGENR EXECUTIV RPORATE AMERI
• GAY TIM COOK SAYS – BEG GAY IS GOD’S BLSG, BUT WHY DID HE REMA PRIVED OF GETTG MARRIED?
• TIM COOK’S DISCLOSURE THAT HE’S GAY GARNERS SWEEPG PRAISE
• TIM COOK: 'I NSIR BEG GAY AMONG THE GREATT GIFTS GOD HAS GIVEN ME'
• ON THIS GAY DAY: IN 2014 APPLE CEO TIM COOK NFIRMED HE IS GAY
• TIM COOK ISN'T THE ONLY OPENLY GAY CEO
• TIM COOK SPEAKS OUT AGAST 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAWS
• BS, MEDIA AND ACTIVIST BIGWIGS RPOND TO TIM COOK’S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE’S GAY
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK IS 'PROUD TO BE GAY'
• TIM COOK IS GAY. BUT HE NEEDS TO DO MORE FOR LGBT RIGHTS THAN BE 'OUT'
• TIM COOK TELLS THE WORLD 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'

WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY

Apple CEO Tim Cook says he felt a “tremendo rponsibily” to publicly e out as gay. Though many of the people he works wh already knew he was gay, Cook says, his cisn to speak up was spired by a Dr.

TIM COOK: BEG GAY IS GOD’S GREATT GIFT TO ME

Tim Cook: Beg gay gave me perspective as a mory.

In 2014, Tim Cook beme the first CEO of a major pany to e out as gay. Beg gay is “God’s greatt gift to me, ” he said. “I was public bee I started to receive stori om kids who read onle that I was gay, ” he told Amanpour.

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

He wanted to monstrate to gay children that they “n be gay and still go on and do some big jobs life. 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. 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.

GAY TIM COOK SAYS – BEG GAY IS GOD’S BLSG, BUT WHY DID HE REMA PRIVED OF GETTG MARRIED?

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

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TIM COOK’S DISCLOSURE THAT HE’S GAY GARNERS SWEEPG PRAISE

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.

TIM COOK: 'I NSIR BEG GAY AMONG THE GREATT GIFTS GOD HAS GIVEN ME'

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.

ON THIS GAY DAY: IN 2014 APPLE CEO TIM COOK NFIRMED HE IS GAY

He is also gay but even after beg 62 years old, he is sgle.

He is intified as a gay CEO. In fact, the bate about gay marriage is gog on India the days. What do Tim Cook thk about homosexuals and why didn’t he get married?

I’m proud to be gay – Tim.

TIM COOK ISN'T THE ONLY OPENLY GAY CEO

Tim Cook, famo for his fns, says that he ‘gay’ Proud to be. In the year 2014, he publicly revealed that he is ‘gay’.

Tim wrote one of his articl – “My inty may help you guys to unrstand me that I am gay. ” Durg this he also said that “I’m proud to be gay”. Whereas the year 2018 CNN He said a nversatn wh “Beg gay is God’s greatt gift to me.

Is Gay Tim not married?

TIM COOK SPEAKS OUT AGAST 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAWS

Even after revealg himself to be ‘gay’, Tim Cook has always given special importance to privacy. Beg ‘gay’, people have been wantg to know somethg special about his personal life.

Cook on Twter was wispread, om former Print Bill Clton and rporate chieftas to gay workers at tech pani. Of one of the most inic pani the world happens to be gay, you’ll thk, ‘There’s no lim on what I n do.

Cook took pas to emphasize that beg gay is both re to who he is and also merely one part of implic msage to young people, she said, is that they n embrace their ethnic or sexual inti and still be succsful. “If you, too, are gay and feel like you n’t do — you’ve been told that you n’t be C.

BS, MEDIA AND ACTIVIST BIGWIGS RPOND TO TIM COOK’S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE’S GAY

Mg, who is -founr of Sos, an tn technology pany, and vice chairwoman of StartOut, an entreprenr group for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr said that Mr. Cook was particularly ft when he wrote, “I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me. Silin Valley, wh s nonstop foc on the future and s lotn one of the most socially liberal parts of the untry, has long been publicly supportive of gays and tech pani field large ntgents San Francis’s annual gay pri para, wh some top dtry lears, cludg Mr.

Cook, personally leadg their pani’ Silin Valley has been ahead of the curve extendg employee benefs to same-sex partners and tech pani, particularly start-ups found and staffed largely by young whe men, have also stggled to al wh a aterny-like “bro” culture hospable to women and gay people of both dtry has few proment executiv who are openly gay.

Glaser said some of his gay iends tech still felt unfortable g out and believed the dtry discrimated agast Lazowska, a profsor of puter science at the Universy of Washgton, said most technology pani, like most universi, have polici that say they are open to women, gays, lbians and members of mory groups.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK IS 'PROUD TO BE GAY'

”Wley Chan, an early Google product manager and angel vtor, who is gay, said that Mr.

TIM COOK IS GAY. BUT HE NEEDS TO DO MORE FOR LGBT RIGHTS THAN BE 'OUT'

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TIM COOK TELLS THE WORLD 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'

Chan Poore, director of Asia and Pacific island programs at the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn, said that pendg on his next steps, Mr. Cook uld have great fluence on polil lears and bs partners Asia, where gays and lbians face a great al of discrimatn both culturally and unr the law. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.