Is tim cook gay
Apple chief Tim Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay'
This week Mr Cook referred to Martin Luther King in a speech in Alabama in which he called for identical rights for people based on sexual orientation and identity.
He said that Alabama had been too slow to guarantee the rights of ethnic minorities in the civil rights era, and was now being too slow to guarantee gay rights.
"Under the law, citizens of Alabama can still be fired based on their sexual orientation," Mr Bake said.
"We can't alter the past, but we can grasp from it and we can build a different future."
Mr Cook has championed equality at Apple, but in August said he was "not satisfied" with workforce diversity at the company, external.
Outstanding, a not-for-profit professional network for sapphic, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) executives, said on Thursday that many LGBT people in the UK felt it was "safer to stay in the closet" when at work.
In May a US study by LGBT organisation Human Rights Campaign suggested that 53% of US LGBT employees had not approach out at operate, external.
Why Tim Cook, a private guy, voluntarily came out about his sexuality, says people used synonyms ‘normal’ to describe ‘straight’
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 different childhood growing up which in return made him feel that he was fundamentally different.
Growing up in Robertsdale where there was no internet and also very slim hope of finding people who were similar to you, arrange 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," Roast revealed in an in-depth interview to GQ.
The Apple CEOwho prefers to stay off the radar and not indulge in exposing many details about him or his personal life, spoke unfiltered to the world when he came out in the 2014 opinion article in Bloom
Apple CEO Tim Fry comes out on being gay ‘to help others’
In 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook was motivated to publicly address his hold 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 facilitate someone struggling to approach 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 have privacy.
Directly addressing those children struggling to find acceptance within themselves and from the outside world, Tim writes, “Life gets finer , you can have a great life filled with joy. Gay is not a limitation … it’s a characteristic that I hope they view, enjoy I do, that it’s God’s greatest gift.”
Being homosexual 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