Apple is gay

In 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook was motivated to publicly address his control sexuality after receiving letters from children who were struggling with their sexual orientation, writing:

While I own never denied my sexuality, I haven’t publicly recognized it either, until now. So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay. I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can support someone struggling to arrive to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my hold privacy.

Directly addressing those children struggling to find acceptance within themselves and from the outside world, Tim writes, “Life gets superior, you can have a great life filled with joy. Gay is not a limitation … it’s a characteristic that I hope they view, prefer I do, that it’s God’s greatest gift.”

Being male lover gives me a deeper understanding of being in the minority and challenges other minorities deal with. It’s made me more empathetic, leading to a richer life. It’s been tough and uncomfortable, but it has giv

Apple's CEO is now openly gay. Is that progress?

Apple CEO Tim Cook made history last week, becoming the first Fortune 500 CEO to break through the steel ceiling of heterosexual privilege in the business world when he disclosed in Businessweek that he is "proud to be gay." Despite Cook’s insistence that he has long been open with many people about his sexual orientation, his decision to encourage the public into an otherwise personal area of his life rightly deserves praise as some commentators have noted. However, the equal factors which construct Cook’s "coming-out" materialize exceptional and noteworthy are the very features, privileges actually, which are absented in the lives of so many LGBT people. For some, it literally pays to be gay. But for so many others, coming out costs.

Cook is a multi-millionaire. He was number 19 on Forbes' 2013 The World’s Most Powerful People list, placing him among 71 others "who rule the world." According to Forbes, Cook was paid $4.2 million in 2012.

While there exists a faulty assumption that gays and lesbians in the U.S. are prospering, recent research indicates that lesbian, homosexual, and bisexual (LGB) Americans actually remained more likely to be

Apple CEO Tim Cook said he decided to come out as gay after reading letters from kids struggling with their identity

Tim Cook says he was motivated to come out as queer after receiving letters from children struggling with their sexual orientation.

The usually private Apple CEO publicly came out in 2014, exposing his sexual orientation in an open letter published in Bloomberg Businessweek. This made him the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

In an interview with People en Español published Thursday, the 58-year-old spoke about a range of topics related to sexual orientation and young people.

Discussing his 2014 coming out, he said: "What was driving me was [that] I was getting notes from kids who were struggling with their sexual orientation. They were low. Some said [they] had suicidal thoughts. Some had been banished by their own parents and family.

"It weighed on me in terms of what I could do," he continued. "Obviously I couldn't talk to each one individually that reached out, but you always know if you have people reaching out to you that there's many more that don't, that are just out there wondering whether they have a future or not, wondering whethe

Why Tim Cook, a private man, voluntarily came out about his sexuality, says people used pos ‘normal’ to characterize ‘straight’

When Tim Grill, the CEO of the biggest tech company in the world, Apple, came out about his sexuality in 2014, it shocked the world but his story also became an inspiration for millions.

But what has remained a topic of conversation is what took Cook so long?

The 62-year-old CEO of Apple, who was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1960 and grew up in Robertsdale where his father worked in a shipyard, had a distinct childhood growing up which in repay made him touch that he was fundamentally different.

Growing up in Robertsdale where there was no internet and also very slim hope of result people who were similar to you, set the template for the way Cook still sees himself.

"When I was growing up there was no internet, and therefore you didn't find a lot of people like you around," Cook revealed in an in-depth interview to GQ.

The Apple CEOwho prefers to stay off the radar and not indulge in uncovering many details about him or his personal life, spoke unfiltered to the world when he came out in the 2014 belief article in Bloom