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I had absolutely no idea, but CEO's sexuality tend to not even cross my mind. I'm glad that these days people can safely talk about this, hopefully soon it won't even be news.
Tim Cook Speaks Up
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#12$AAPL down 1% pre-market :)
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#13Way to go, Tim! It's a shame that he had to 'come out', but I hope that being the CEO of one of the world's biggest companies will help the LGBT cause.
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#14I wish we lived in a society where people weren't pressured into "publically acknowledge" their sexual orientation just because it's different than the norm. You don't see heterosexual CEOs publically acknowledging they are banging their wife, why should it be different for other sexual orientations? Just let everyone be.
I think that's a very real future, and speaking out in this way only helps to make that a reality sooner.
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#15Never expected that! but still lot of respect for him.. it takes lot of guts to speak up being the CEO of the worlds biggest company!..
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#16Good for him. Must be a relief.
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How so?
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#18Strangely enough I'd see pictures of him at some gay pride thing and it never even occurred to me he might be gay. I think, more accurately, it didn't trigger anything in my brain that thought it mattered either way. Obviously this is the way it should be!
It seems like Tim Cook isn't under any pressure to publicly announce this, so it seems he's doing it as a way of leveraging his position to help others who are experiencing adversity. Some will say this is a stunt for Apple, and no doubt it does draw attention to Apple in a way, but I think you'd have to be pretty cynical to say that this is anything more nefarious than an admirable gesture.
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#19$AAPL down 1% pre-market :)
That would value a CEO's sexuality at 6 billion dollars. I sincerely hope that has nothing to do with this news.
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#20I wonder how carefully crafted this line was:
... I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.