Apple and Steve Jobs have long been champns for Gay Rights | Network World

Contents:

• WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY
• MEET APPLE'S NEW BOSS, THE MOST POWERFUL GAY MAN SILIN VALLEY
• APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS
• APPLE CEO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE'S GAY
• STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL RSIA REMOVED AFTER CURRENT APPLE CEO 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

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

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

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. Others suggt that Brish Secury Servic nsired Turg a high secury risk bee he was gay, and may have sabotaged him rather than risk the possibily that foreign agents would blackmail Turg to obta ernment secrets. 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 look back at how Apple and Steve Jobs have long been champns for Gay Rights.

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.

APPLE CEO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE'S GAY

" 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. 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.

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

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. 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. 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.