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Contents:

• APPLE CEO TIM COOK OUT AS GAY: I'M PROUD
• « FIER D'êTRE GAY », LE PATRON D'APPLE RéVèLE SON HOMOSEXUALé
• APPLE'S CEO IS NOW OPENLY GAY. IS THAT PROGRS?
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK OUT: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'
• APPLE CEO ACKNOWLEDG HE’S GAY
• INI ALASAN CEO APPLE M MENGAKU GAY
• EL CEO APPLE, TIM COOK, REVELA QUE GAY
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK SLAMS ‘EPLY NCERNG’ DON’T SAY GAY BILL AS ‘PROUD MEMBER OF LGBT+ MUNY’
• EL CEO APPLE ANUNCIA QUE GAY
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK COM OUT AS GAY
• SO THAT DU WHO RUNS APPLE IS GAY…
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK: ‘I’M PROUD TO BE GAY’
• APPLE’S GAY CEO FILLS ROLE MOL VOID FOR LGBT EMPLOYE
• APPLE’S CEO TIM COOK HAS THE 7 OPENLY GAY LEARS TO THANK
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK IS 'PROUD TO BE GAY'
• TIM COOK: APPLE'S NEW CEO AND THE MOST POWERFUL GAY MAN AMERI
• IN HIS NATIVE ALABAMA, APPLE CEO'S ANNOUNCEMENT HE IS GAY PROMPTS DISFORT FOR SOME
• APPLE CEO SAYS HE’S ‘PROUD TO BE GAY’

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

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, " 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.

« FIER D'êTRE GAY », LE PATRON D'APPLE RéVèLE SON HOMOSEXUALé

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'S CEO IS NOW OPENLY GAY. IS THAT PROGRS?

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.

"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. 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 OUT: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'

Énomie Dans une tribune publiée sur Bloomberg Bs, Tim Cook parle ouvertement son homosexualé, un fa rare pour une gran figure l'énomie numérique. » Dans une tribune publiée sur le se Bloomberg Bsweek, le patron d'Apple, Tim Cook, révèle officiellement son homosexualé. C't ce qui m'a ndu à faire ce que je vais faire jourd'hui », poursu celui qui, s'il n'ava jamais nié son homosexualé, n'en ava jamais parlé publiquement.

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APPLE CEO ACKNOWLEDG HE’S GAY

Favorabl x dros s upl homosexuels, Google, Facebook et nombrs entrepris défilent asi lors la Gay Pri San Francis puis plirs anné. En avril 2014, Brendan Eich, alors directr général Mozilla, ava asi été posé à la démissn après la révélatn d'un don  1 000 dollars effectué en 2008 pour soutenir la proposn 8 – un référendum sur l'terdictn du mariage homosexuel en Californie.

INI ALASAN CEO APPLE M MENGAKU GAY

Nf entrepris ançais (Accenture, Altel-Lucent, Caso, E Paris, IBM, Orange, Randstad, l'agence régnale santé d'Ile--France et Veolia E) ont asi signé une charte d'engagement pour lutter ntre l discrimatns envers l lbienn, gays, bisexuels ou transgenr (LGBT). En ju, le livre l'ancien patron du géant s hydrorbur BP ava rappelé l difficultés lié à la révélatn l'homosexualé dans le i profsnnel.

Car, même si l mentalés changent, ment ra-il pu faire s affair dans l pays productrs, tels que la Rsie, le Nigeria et pl généralement l'Aique subsaharienne, où l'homosexualé t crimalisée? Apple CEO Tim Cook ma history last week, beg the first Fortune 500 CEO to break through the steel ceilg of heterosexual privilege the bs world when he disclosed Bsweek that he is "proud to be gay. Are prosperg, recent rearch dit that lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) Amerins actually remaed more likely to be poor than heterosexual people.

EL CEO APPLE, TIM COOK, REVELA QUE GAY

He even wrote, "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. "Yet, the plex and ternnected stggl of queer women, people of lor, and transgenr dividuals are often obscured when we celebrate seemg moments of sgular gay uplift. In fact, twenty-four percent of lbians and bisexual women are poor, pared wh only 19% of heterosexual women, as reported by the Williams, Cook exists among a ntgent wh the LGBT muny ma up of whe cisgenr men who are more likely to be enomilly stable, employed, and ’s announcement was important given that up until now there was not one openly gay Fortune 500 CEO, but we should be ls quick our sh to name this moment progrs.

" And now one is openly long as gayns is an inty celebrated or talked about when certa LGBT people, like the wealthy and famo, e out or when LGBT people are vlently killed the US, we will ntue to wns the var ways some wh the LGBT spectm are placed squarely the center of power as some others are phed to the edg of the is no activist.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK SLAMS ‘EPLY NCERNG’ DON’T SAY GAY BILL AS ‘PROUD MEMBER OF LGBT+ MUNY’

"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.

"Plenty of lleagu at Apple know I'm gay, and don't seem to make a difference the way they treat me, " he wrote. John Browne served as CEO of BP (BP) om 1995 to 2007, and acknowledged he was gay after he was forced to leave office. Jadi biar saya perjelas: saya tidak malu menjadi seorang gay, dan saya rasa, menjadi gay adalah salah satu berkat yang Tuhan berikan kepada saya.

EL CEO APPLE ANUNCIA QUE GAY

"Jika ngan mengetahui bahwa CEO Apple adalah seorang gay bisa membantu seorang lebih perya diri tentang jati diri mereka, at memberikan kenyamanan bagi yang merasa disgkirkan, at mengspirasi orang la unt menuntut hak ketaraan atas mereka, maka privasi yang saya korbankan tidaklah sia-sia, " mikian tulis Cook juga menuliskan bahwa selama i beberapa karyawan Apple sudah mengetahui bahwa ia adalah seorang gay, tetapi dalam keharian mereka tidak memperlakannya sera berbeda.

Cook bersyur bahwa lgkungan kerjanya u ternyata bisa salg menghargai dan bisa menerima saja, bertes terang tentang dirya yang seorang gay banlah hal yang mudah bagi orang nomor satu di Apple u. NUEVA YORK (CNNMoney) -- El CEO Apple, Tim Cook, salió l 'clóset' te juev anunciando que gay, en una lumna en Bloomberg Bsweek.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK COM OUT AS GAY

Cook no había hablado públimente s preferencias sexualhasta ahora, a par algunos mor y peculacn que gay. Cook aseguró que no se nsira un activista, pero dice que tomó la cisión nfar públimente su homosexualidad por si ello pue ayudar a más personas que luchen por s rechos.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has nmned Florida’s harmful “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which if signed to law would prohib “classroom discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty”. Tim Cook, one of the world’s most powerful gay men, has said he is “eply ncerned” about the law, and that he “stands wh” young LGBT+ people affected. Activists have warned the bill would make LGBT+ rights and liv a “taboo topic” schools, siar to Bra’s Sectn 28 and Rsia and Hungary’s so-lled “gay propaganda bills”.

SO THAT DU WHO RUNS APPLE IS GAY…

Geia lawmakers filed their own versn of the harmful “Don’t Say Gay” bill hours after Florida passed s own, which would also prohib schools om enuragg “classroom discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty”. While the bill is unlikely to advance, as the Geia Senate’s Edutn and Youth Commtee did not meet until was too late for the bill to pass out of the mtee, activists worry that the proposal “endors and heightens transphobia and homophobia”. "Permítanme ser claro: Estoy ulloso ser gay, y yo nsiro ser gay uno los mayor don que Ds me ha dado", cribió.

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

Cook no había hablado públimente s preferencias sexual hasta ahora, a par algunos mor y peculacn que gay.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK: ‘I’M PROUD TO BE GAY’

"Si cuchar que el CEO Apple gay pue ayudar alguien que lucha por tar bien n lo que él o ella , o traer nfort a cualquiera que se sienta solo, o spire a la gente a sistir en su igualdad, entonc vale la pena tratar n mi propia timidad".

"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, " Cook wr.

APPLE’S GAY CEO FILLS ROLE MOL VOID FOR LGBT EMPLOYE

"Plenty of lleagu at Apple know I'm gay, and don't seem to make a difference the way they treat me, " he says.

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. If you’re the kd of person who follows bs and tech news, then you already knew who he was, and you also knew that he was gay. But he never publicly said he was gay, and that has been a big source of news ever sce he took the high-profile posn of Apple CEO.

Many articl were wrten about the “mor” that he was gay, and about the fact that no one wanted to flat-out publicly say , bee he hadn’t, so no one wanted to “out” him. This has been on thg that has bugged me about this speculatn about his sexualy for the past several years, many have basilly mand that he publicly e out, argug that he has some of kd of obligatn or rponsibily to clare to the world that he’s gay. On the other hand, I have to acknowledge that my perspective on this issue may be different simply due to the fact that I’m not gay myself.

APPLE’S CEO TIM COOK HAS THE 7 OPENLY GAY LEARS TO THANK

But no matter how hard I try to empathize, I n never really know what ’s like growg up beg and livg as a gay person. 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.

APPLE CEO TIM COOK IS 'PROUD TO BE GAY'

So I gus that if I was a gay kid right now I’d feel a siar feelg of pri jt to see a gay person nng one of the biggt and most succsful pani the world. Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly nfirmed he is gay an opn piece published Thursday, makg him the hight-profile chief executive to e an say published by Bloomberg Bsweek advotg for human rights and equaly, Cook says he was spired by Dr. "Cook be the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 pany, acrdg to gays rights group Human Rights Campaign, who appld the Apple chief's say.

"This serv as an openg of the door for other CEOs, senr-level managers, senr-level executiv to say I'm ready to brg my thentic self to the office and I know now that 's not potentially a triment, 's an asset to be out and proud the workplace, " says Jt Nelson, -founr and print of the Natnal Gay & Lbian Chamber of has been among the top Amerin pani for embracg equaly. Tim Cook was already one of the most high-profile bs lears the world, and now he is s most proment openly gay ’s chief executive addrsed his sexual orientatn publicly for the first time Thursday, g out a first-person say tled “Tim Cook Speaks Up. ”“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 the say, which was published Bloomberg rporate lears have e out of the closet, even though dog so has bee more mon among celebri, profsnal athlet and policians.

TIM COOK: APPLE'S NEW CEO AND THE MOST POWERFUL GAY MAN AMERI

Gay rights supporters note that 29 stat do not have laws that explicly prohib workplace discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, and they hope Cook’s g out will brg attentn to the issue. The 53-year-old had been wily mored to be gay for years, but the tech world largely paid ltle attentn to such changed Thursday, wh several tech lears quickly turng to social media to appld Cook’s cisn to e out. Durg a roundtable discsn, -anchor Simon Hobbs said: “I thk Tim Cook is fairly open about the fact he’s gay at the head of Apple, isn’t he?

IN HIS NATIVE ALABAMA, APPLE CEO'S ANNOUNCEMENT HE IS GAY PROMPTS DISFORT FOR SOME

”Cook didn’t addrs the CNBC gaffe at the time, but he has long been vol about his stnch support of gay rights. #applepri”In July, he followed that up by tweetg a lk to a vio showg employe celebratg gay pri by donng whe T-shirts wh the Apple in outled by a jt this week, Cook slammed Alabama’s long-standg issu wh racial equaly and discrimatn agast gays a speech he ma durg a ceremony ductg him to the Alabama Amy of Honor.

APPLE CEO SAYS HE’S ‘PROUD TO BE GAY’

“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, ” he said, “then ’s worth the tra-off wh my own privacy.

(AAPL), the world’s most valuable technology pany, Tim Cook has license to say what he thks, cludg announcg that he’s “proud to be gay” Bloomberg Bsweek yterday. That pronouncement, almost universally ld, is a lot riskier for gay executiv still tryg to get to the rner office.

“He has helped ph the rock a long distance uphill toward more openns and opportuny, but isn’t gog to be stant paradise the C sue for gay people, ” said Lda Hirshman, thor of “Victory, the Triumphant Gay Revolutn.