I can’t believe that I am writing this in 2014, but I am. Tim Cook in a Bloomberg Businessweek article had this to say:
For years, I’ve been open with many people about my sexual orientation. Plenty of colleagues at Apple know I’m gay, and it doesn’t seem to make a difference in the way they treat me. Of course, I’ve had the good fortune to work at a company that loves creativity and innovation and knows it can only flourish when you embrace people’s differences. Not everyone is so lucky.
And he also had this to say:
The company I am so fortunate to lead has long advocated for human rights and equality for all. We’ve taken a strong stand in support of a workplace equality bill before Congress, just as we stood for marriage equality in our home state of California. And we spoke up in Arizona when that state’s legislature passed a discriminatory bill targeting the gay community. We’ll continue to fight for our values, and I believe that any CEO of this incredible company, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation, would do the same. And I will personally continue to advocate for equality for all people until my toes point up.
So, Tim Cook has confirmed that he’s gay and that he supports equality in all its forms. Now I wrote in 2011 that Cook being gay is non-issue. The fact that we’re still talking about it three years later shows what little progress we’ve made as humans. If humans can make a smartphone that is more powerful than the computers that took man to the moon by many orders of magnitude, surely we can simply treat each other with respect and dignity no matter whom we are?
Is that too much to ask?
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Tim Cook Comes Out As Being Gay In Support Of Equality
I can’t believe that I am writing this in 2014, but I am. Tim Cook in a Bloomberg Businessweek article had this to say:
For years, I’ve been open with many people about my sexual orientation. Plenty of colleagues at Apple know I’m gay, and it doesn’t seem to make a difference in the way they treat me. Of course, I’ve had the good fortune to work at a company that loves creativity and innovation and knows it can only flourish when you embrace people’s differences. Not everyone is so lucky.
And he also had this to say:
The company I am so fortunate to lead has long advocated for human rights and equality for all. We’ve taken a strong stand in support of a workplace equality bill before Congress, just as we stood for marriage equality in our home state of California. And we spoke up in Arizona when that state’s legislature passed a discriminatory bill targeting the gay community. We’ll continue to fight for our values, and I believe that any CEO of this incredible company, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation, would do the same. And I will personally continue to advocate for equality for all people until my toes point up.
So, Tim Cook has confirmed that he’s gay and that he supports equality in all its forms. Now I wrote in 2011 that Cook being gay is non-issue. The fact that we’re still talking about it three years later shows what little progress we’ve made as humans. If humans can make a smartphone that is more powerful than the computers that took man to the moon by many orders of magnitude, surely we can simply treat each other with respect and dignity no matter whom we are?
Is that too much to ask?
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