Apple CEO Tim Cook out as gay: I'm proud

Contents:

• WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY
• TIM COOK: BEG GAY IS GOD’S GREATT GIFT TO ME
• OPENLY GAY THE BOARDROOM: WHY SO FEW LGBTQ EXECUTIV LEAD AMERI'S LARGT PANI
• WHY IS APPLE'S TIM COOK THE ONLY OPENLY GAY CEO OF A MAJOR US FIRM?
• THE RNER CLOSET: WHY THERE ARE SO FEW GAY AND TRANSGENR EXECUTIV RPORATE AMERI
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK OUT AS GAY: I'M PROUD
• TIM COOK BGRAPHY AND NET WORTH, IS HE GAY, WHO IS THE PARTNER, HBAND OR BOYIEND?
• APPLE CEO TIM COOK SAID HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY AFTER READG LETTERS OM KIDS STGGLG WH THEIR INTY
• COOK: BEG GAY ‘IS GOD’S GREATT GIFT TO ME’

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. 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.

It would be worth mentng that 2014, Cook beme the first chief executive of a Fortune 500 pany who had publicly e out as gay. Intertgly, he is proud of beg gay! It was the June of 2014 when Tim Cook attend San Francis’s gay pri para where he was acpanied by an Apple staff named Benjam Lg.

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

And then later that year, on 30th October, he publicly me out as gay an edorial for Bloomberg Bs. As the poters were gettg nnected, people started wonrg that the man who had acpanied Tim Cook the gay pri para, Benjam Lg, was his partner! 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. 2014, when he publicly me out a Bloomberg Bsweek lumn, beg the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 pany. “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.

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

”Article ntu below advertisementArticle ntu below advertisementHe said beg gay is “a feature, ” not a limatnIn Oct. Durg that nversatn, Correa asked about the Alabama native’s assertn the Bloomberg Bsweek lumn that beg gay is “among the greatt gifts” that God had given elaborated on that pot, sayg, “It giv me a level of empathy that I thk is probably much higher than average bee beg gay or trans, you’re a mory.

”Cook also revealed that parents had reached out to him to exprs worri about that their gay children’s sexualy doomed them to unhapps. Beg gay is not a limatn.

He hid that he was gay for a long time. Cook has never revealed why he hid that he was gay for such a long time.

WHY IS APPLE'S TIM COOK THE ONLY OPENLY GAY CEO OF A MAJOR US FIRM?

He publicly me out as gay 2014. Cook me out publicly as a gay man 2014. By dog so, he beme the first CEO of a Fortune 500 pany to e out as 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, then ’s worth the tra-off wh my own privacy.

“It’s someone that is maybe an LGBT muny that is fired bee of that…It beme clear to me that there were lots of kids out there not beg treated well, cludg their own fai, and that kids need someone to say, ‘Oh they did okay life, and they’re gay so mt not be a life sentence some kd of way. Intertg – Bo Burnham Gay, Married, Girliend, Wife, Fay. In 2014, Time Cook me out as gay.

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

The gay romance between Benjam and partner Tim irreversibly died down 2018 when the revered vtor unveiled Chris Coudron as his new boyiend.

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

Today, Camuñez, one of two Hispanic board members, is also intified as part of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny. Image source, Getty ImagIt's pretty startlg that among the chief executiv of the 500 biggt US pani only one, Tim Cook of Apple, is openly claratn this week that he is "proud to be gay" was hailed as an important moment for the gay muny. Campaigners say they know of boss of other big firms who are gay, but are reluctant to be open about hope Mr Cook's public acknowledgement will spur them to e what is holdg them back?

TIM COOK BGRAPHY AND NET WORTH, IS HE GAY, WHO IS THE PARTNER, HBAND OR BOYIEND?

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

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But that remas to be seen, as there is no data to support the Tim Cook's announcement, we might fd out over the next few years whether ctomers might nsir the sexualy of a chief executive when choosg a mobile prospectsSo what about gay people tryg to work their way through the ranks the current era? Over three-quarters of Ameri's 500 biggt pani have non-discrimatn polici that bar firg someone bee they are gay or lbian, says Jt Nelson, -founr and print of the US Natnal Gay and Lbian Chamber of he says those polici n only go so far.

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

"There are still tim that, even when you have a policy, the guy the cubicle next to you might have a personal belief that is not fully clive, " he source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Christopher Bailey is the only openly gay chief executive of a FTSE 100 firmSome dtri are workg harr than others to overe such UK fashn dtry n boast the only openly gay chief executive among FTSE 100 pani, after Christopher Bailey beme chief executive of Burberry earlier this Sandhu says diversy is " the DNA" of the fashn dtry is not necsarily leadg the way enuragg gay staff. The buildg tra is also makg a big effort, she says, wh nstctn giant Balfour Beatty workg closely wh Stonewall to help gay staff. Dpe the efforts of mpaigng groups, many young gay people still feel unr prsure to hi their sexualy.

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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. “A lear of his stature and the thenticy of his msage were so movg to so many gay Amerins and alli. ”But progrs has remaed slow sce Cook beme the first publicly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 pany, particularly dtri outsi fashn, media and entertament.