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Contents:

• TIM COOK: BEG GAY IS GOD’S GREATT GIFT TO ME
• WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK OUT AS GAY: I'M PROUD
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK SAID HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY AFTER READG LETTERS OM KIDS STGGLG WH THEIR INTY
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK OUT: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• COOK: BEG GAY ‘IS GOD’S GREATT GIFT TO ME’
• OPENLY GAY THE BOARDROOM: WHY SO FEW LGBTQ EXECUTIV LEAD AMERI'S LARGT PANI
• TIM COOK: I'M PROUD TO BE GAYTIM COOK: I'M PROUD TO BE GAY
• TIM COOK AND THE END OF GAY RIGHTS AS A WEDGE ISSUE

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

WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY

One more years of stayg relatively silent, Apple CEO Tim Cook me out as gay on Thursday for the first time publicly, sayg that "while I have never nied my sexualy, I haven't publicly acknowledged eher, until now.

""So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me.

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

"'"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 said Bsweek, beg the first Fortune 500 chief executive to e out, who took over the role 2011 shortly before the ath of Apple founr Steve Jobs, wr that he's been open about his sexualy wh many people his life, cludg "plenty" of his Apple lleagu, and that hasn't changed the way he's been treated.

He ntu the post:"Beg gay has given me a eper unrstandg of what means to be the mory and provid a wdow to the challeng that people other mory groups al wh every day. "RELATED: Apple CEO tells climate change niers to sell their Apple sharThe Natnal Gay & Lbian Chamber of Commerce praised Cook for g out, wrg a statement that "The bs voice of the LGBT muny, mends Tim Cook for his movg and heartfelt g out say... Wyomg on Tuday beme the 32nd state to legalize gay marriage, jog several other nservative areas allowg same-sex lossal shift go for public opn, too.

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

A recent poll shows half of the Amerin public believ gay marriage is a nstutnal right, wh 50% sayg that same-sex marriage is protected by the U. The numbers support of marriage equaly this year far surpass those om a siar survey 2004, when jt 32% of Amerins said they favored gay as a pany has been a strong supporter of marriage equaly.

" And Cook himself has been a vol supporter of gay rights over the years.

"In December 2013, a speech Cook gave on gay rights and racism -- cludg personal discrimatn -- led some media outlets, cludg Gawker's tech se Valleywag, to ponr if that was the first time the Apple CEO acknowledged his sexual orientatn publicly.

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

This summer, a CNBC segment of "Squawk on the Street" turned heads when one host accintally "outed" Cook, sayg “I thk Tim Cook is fairly open about the fact that he’s gay at the head of Apple isn’t he?

Apple CEO Tim Cook says he was motivated to publicly e out as gay after receivg letters om children stgglg wh their sexual an terview wh People en Español, Cook discsed his public g out and his msage to children uncerta about revealg their sexual, now 58, me out 2014, beg the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 's ments e amid a tough spell for the Apple CEO, who has faced cricism for his cisn earlier this month to remove om the App Store an app that allowed Hong Kong protters to track police Bs Insir's homepage for more stori.

Tim Cook says he was motivated to e out as gay after receivg letters om children stgglg wh their sexual ually private Apple CEO publicly me out 2014, revealg his sexual orientatn an open letter published Bloomberg Bsweek. This ma him the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 an terview wh People en Español published Thursday, the 58-year-old spoke about a range of topics related to sexual orientatn and young people.

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"Though Cook said he "didn't worry" about how Apple staff would react to his g out, he did acknowledge worryg about the reactn "outsi of Apple, " and noted that "the world is still not iendly to gay or trans people many untri but also wh our untry.

" He ntued: "Gay is not a limatn. "Cook add that beg gay gave him a lens to how other people thk and feel.

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

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.

" Related: Tim Cook isn't the only openly gay CEO Cook, who grew up Alabama, said he has long been open about his sexual orientatn, but had jt not prevly discsed publicly.

OPENLY GAY THE BOARDROOM: WHY SO FEW LGBTQ EXECUTIV LEAD AMERI'S LARGT PANI

"Plenty of lleagu at Apple know I'm gay, and don't seem to make a difference the way they treat me, " he wrote. " There have been some mors and speculatn that Cook is gay.

Out magaze had prevly named him as the most powerful gay person on s Power 50 list.

TIM COOK: I'M PROUD TO BE GAYTIM COOK: I'M PROUD TO BE GAY

But there are no other publicly gay CEO's at the 700 largt rporatns. John Browne served as CEO of BP (BP) om 1995 to 2007, and acknowledged he was gay after he was forced to leave office. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, first me out as gay a few years ago.

He said that beg gay is one of the “greatt gifts” God has given him.

TIM COOK AND THE END OF GAY RIGHTS AS A WEDGE ISSUE

Cook beme the most well-known CEO to say that he is gay. In June 2014, Tim Cook went to the gay pri para San Francis.

Then, October of that year, he wrote an edorial for Bloomberg Bs which he said he was gay. Cook wrote: ‘Let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me.

Lg had also thanked Tim a tweet for beg open about beg gay. People did not waste any time nnectg the dots and there were speculatns spreadg like wildfire that Benjam Lg, who had been wh Tim Cook at the gay pri para, was his boyiend.