Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks out: ‘I’m proud to be gay’<article>
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<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday published a moving essay in
Bloomberg Businessweek in which he publicly announced for the first time that he is gay. Cook is the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to publicly come out.</p><p>Cook is famously private and said he doesn’t think of himself as an activist, but decided to speak out to help others.</p><p>“If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come 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 own privacy,” Cook wrote.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2841315/apple-ceo-tim-cook-speaks-out-i-m-proud-to-be-gay.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks out: ‘I’m proud to be gay’
