Tim Cook is gay. But he needs to do more for LGBT rights than be 'out' | Steven W Thrasher | 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.

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

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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. 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.

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

“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.

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

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

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

What do Tim Cook thk about homosexuals and why didn’t he get married? I’m proud to be gay – Tim.

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

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.

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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 ISN'T THE ONLY OPENLY GAY CEO

Even after revealg himself to be ‘gay’, Tim Cook has always given special importance to privacy.

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

“If you, too, are gay and feel like you n’t do — you’ve been told that you n’t be C. 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.

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

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. ”Wley Chan, an early Google product manager and angel vtor, who is gay, said that Mr. “In the rt of the world, where ’s not that obv, people will s there and go, ‘You n be gay and be the C.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK IS '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.

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

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.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, has publicly e out as gay and scribed his sexualy as “among the greatt gifts God has given me”, who had prevly not acknowledged nor nied his sexualy, be by far the most fluential gay bs executive as head of the world’s most valuable pany.

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

So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, ” Cook, 53, said an opn article for Bloomberg Bsweek. Plenty of lleagu at Apple know I’m gay, and don’t seem to make a difference the way they treat me.

Cook was named the most powerful gay person by Out magaze 2013, and attend Silin Valley’s gay pri this summer.