Posted : 2014-10-31 11:08 Updated : 2014-10-31 11:12
Apple's Tim Cook is "proud to be gay"
By Lee Ji-hye Apple CEO Tim Cook has publicly acknowledged that he is gay in
an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek published on Thursday. "I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," Cook wrote. With the statement, Cook became one of the highest-profile businesspeople to be openly gay. Though he does not consider himself an activist, he states that he has "benefited from the sacrifice of others. "So 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," he wrote. Cook explains in his article that being publicly gay does not give him any obstacles, but rather gives him a wider scope of perspective. "Plenty of colleagues at Apple know I'm gay, and it doesn't seem to make a difference in the way they treat me," he wrote. "It (being gay) has also given me the skin of a rhinoceros, which comes in handy when you're the CEO of Apple." Cook concluded his essay by writing, "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."
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