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Contents:

• WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY
• THE 5 GAYT HIGHLIGHTS OF STEVE JOBS’ CAREER
• APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS
• MEET APPLE'S NEW BOSS, THE MOST POWERFUL GAY MAN SILIN VALLEY
• STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL RSIA REMOVED AFTER CURRENT APPLE CEO OUT AS GAY
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK IS 'PROUD TO BE GAY'
• APPLE CEO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE'S GAY
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK ON ‘OPPORTUNISTIC’ STEVE JOBS MOVI, WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY
• REMOVAL OF STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL DUE TO 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TURNS OUT TO BE PR HOAX

WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY

Washgton– The Human Rights Campaign – the natn’s largt civil rights anizatn dited to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) equaly – mourns the loss of one of Ameri’s greatt visnari, and a tremendo ally to the LGBT muny, Steve Jobs. Durg his tenure as CEO, Apple sred a perfect 100 on HRC’s Corporate Equaly Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly. 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.

THE 5 GAYT HIGHLIGHTS OF STEVE JOBS’ CAREER

The 56-year-old putg visnary sought to make personal putg accsible to everyone through sleek, tuive, er-iendly sign, but his pany, his products, and legacy also stck a particular note wh the gay crowd as well.

Let’s take a moment to reunt five ways Jobs stck a posive chord wh the gay muny durg his lifetime. 3) Stylish sign adapted by homos – Acrdg to a 2011 LGBT muny survey, gay men are 1. The sleek, sexy, sign and packagg of Apple products bed wh their populary among artists and signers helped boost their e amongst gay creativ as well.

4) Philanthropy for LGBT – Not only do Apple have no history of donatg to anti-gay , they also famoly donated $100, 000 to help beat Proposn 8.

APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS

As Cook steers the stock market’s #1 pany to the 21st century, he do so as the most powerful gay bsperson the world.

MEET APPLE'S NEW BOSS, THE MOST POWERFUL GAY MAN SILIN VALLEY

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.

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. " 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.

STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL RSIA REMOVED AFTER CURRENT APPLE CEO OUT AS GAY

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.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK IS 'PROUD TO BE GAY'

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.

APPLE CEO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE'S GAY

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. I was standg right next to Steve Jobs 1989 and was the clost thg I ever felt to beg gay.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK ON ‘OPPORTUNISTIC’ STEVE JOBS MOVI, WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY

If the CEO don't return om his third, fe medil leave, COO Tim Cook will succeed him, markg a new era not only for Apple but for gay, who is nng Apple Jobs' absence, has been as reticent to acknowledge his sexual orientatn as he has his prows overseeg the pany supply cha. Cook's rise to his posn—he is one of the most powerful rporate executiv the world, to say nothg of beg the most powerful gay person tech by a e—is also a tribute to his skill and work ethic on the one hand, and to the utterly unnventnal and unnventnally empowerg people skills of Jobs on the other. "Romantic terts: After Cook was profiled as a "lifelong bachelor" and "tensely private" elsewhere, we wonred if he might be gay.

One tech executive who has spoken to multiple Apple management veterans about Cook was told executiv there would support Cook if he publicly acknowledged his orientatn, and even would enurage him to do so as he steps up his learship role, but that they also had ncerns about whether his g out would impact the perceptn of the Apple would be, by far, the most powerful openly gay executive tech, trailed by Microsoft's openly lbian HR chief Lisa Bmmel and by Megan Smh, the former PlaOut CEO now workg as Google's vice print of new bs velopment. A Rsian monument to Steve Jobs has been removed sce Tim Cook, Apple's current CEO, me out as gay.

And the pany wields s power the name of protectg children om the evils of eroti — "eedom om porn" — and adults om one another, Jobs has banned om beg stalled on his vic gay art, gay travel guis, polil rtoons, sexy pictur, Congrsnal ndidate pamphlets, polil riture, Vogue fashn spreads, systems vented by the opposn, and other thgs nsired morally 's vic have nnected to a world of rmatn. The CEO of Apple announced he’s gay Thursday, an say that puts him among the hight-profile publicly out bs lears the world. “I’m proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, ” Tim Cook, who took the res of the world’s most valuable pany om the late -founr Steve Jobs, wr Bloomberg Bsweek.

REMOVAL OF STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL DUE TO 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TURNS OUT TO BE PR HOAX

“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. NEW YORK -- Apple CEO Tim Cook's claratn that he's "proud to be gay" wasn't exactly news Silin Valley, where his sexual orientatn was no secret. Bs executive to publicly acknowledge that he's a untry where more major-league athlet have e out than top CEOs, bs lears said Cook's disclosure was an important step toward easg anti-gay stigma, particularly for employe the many stat where people n still be fired for their sexual, who led Out magaze's top 50 most powerful people for three years, said the say that while he never nied his sexualy, he never openly acknowledged , eher.

"I've e to realize that my sire for personal privacy has been holdg me back om dog somethg more important, " he said he nsirs beg gay "among the greatt gifts God has given me" bee has given him both a better unrstandg of what means to be the mory and "the sk of a rhoceros, which handy when you're the CEO of Apple. "Bis Cook, there are no other openly gay CEOs the Fortune 1, 000, even though statistilly, 3. Rporatns who are openly gay at their pani cled to ment to The Associated Browne, who rigned as Brish Petrolm CEO 2007 after beg outed by a tabloid and who is the thor of "The Glass Closet: Why Comg Out Is Good Bs, " said Cook has bee a role mol "and will speed up chang the rporate world.