Tim Cook talks to the crowd about Apple Pay, a new mobile payment system. (Photo: Apple.com)
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Apple CEO Tim Cook came out Thursday, announcing that he is gay in a column in Bloomberg Businessweek.
“Let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me,” he wrote.
Cook has not publicly discussed his sexual preferences before now, despite some rumors and speculation that he is gay.
A year ago he announced support for a federal law which would have protected workers from facing discrimination based on their sexual orientation.
“For too long, too many people have had to hide that part of their identity in the workplace,” he wrote at the time.
In his column Thursday, he said that he had tried to maintain “a basic level of privacy.” But he said he decided he decided that desire for privacy was stopping him from working for the benefit of others.
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Nuclear Mike
Apple Pay is now a dead app…
NRA Is Here To Stay
Apple products should be boycotted! This is one SICK society! Pervert!!
Dane Parker
Introducing Apple’s next product: iGay.
Jesus Saves
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
truthliveshere
Bully for him. I am proud to be straight.