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NEW YORK (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook’s announcement that he’s “proud to be gay,” makes him the highest-profile business executive in the nation to publicly acknowledge his sexual orientation.
In a country where more major-league athletes acquire come out than highest CEOs, business leaders and gay-rights advocates said Cook’s disclosure was an crucial step toward easing anti-gay stigma in the workplace, particularly for employees in the many states where workers can still be fired for being gay.
Cook’s sexual orientation was not a secret within Apple or in Silicon Valley. The 53-year-old successor to Steve Jobs led Out magazine’s top 50 most powerful people for three years. But in an essay published Thursday by Bloomberg Businessweek, Cook said that while he never denied his sexuality, he never openly acknowledged it, either. He said he acted in the hopes that it could generate a difference to others.
“I’ve come to realize that my desire for personal privacy has been holding me back from doing something more important,” he wrote.
Cook said he considers being gay “among the greatest gifts God has given me” because it has given him both a better understanding of what it means to be in the
Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals 'being gay is God's greatest gift to me'
Apple CEO Tim Cook has opened up about the pride he takes in his sexuality, telling CNN that he considers it "God's greatest gift to me."
Cook, who came out as gay in 2014, said that he was first motivated to unseal up about being same-sex attracted by young members of the LGBTIQ+ community who reached out to him.
“I [went] public because I began to receive stories from kids who decipher something online that I was gay, and they were going through entity bullied, feeling like their family didn’t love them, being pushed out of their home, very seal to suicide — things that just really pulled my heart,” he said, concluding that it would have been "selfish" to withhold his story when it had the potential to help others.
"I needed to do something for them," Cook added, saying he wanted to show that young people "can be gay and still go on and accomplish some big jobs in life."
Cook also credited coming out as helping him be a stronger commander in his position at Apple.
"I learned what it was like to be a minority," he told CNN.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said he decided to reach out as gay after reading letters from kids struggling with their identity
Tim Cook says he was motivated to come out as gay after receiving letters from children struggling with their sexual orientation.
The usually private Apple CEO publicly came out in 2014, revealing his sexual orientation in an unwrap letter published in Bloomberg Businessweek. This made him the first openly male lover CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
In an interview with People en Español published Thursday, the 58-year-old spoke about a range of topics related to sexual orientation and adolescent people.
Discussing his 2014 coming out, he said: "What was driving me was [that] I was getting notes from kids who were struggling with their sexual orientation. They were depressed. Some said [they] had suicidal thoughts. Some had been banished by their own parents and family.
"It weighed on me in terms of what I could do," he continued. "Obviously I couldn't talk to each one individually that reached out, but you always realize if you have people reaching out to you that there's many more that don't, that are just out there wondering whether they have a future or not, wondering whethe
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Cook, who publicly came out last October as same-sex attracted in an essay written for Bloomberg Businessweek, said "being gay has given me a deeper sympathetic of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the challenges that people in other minority groups deal with every day."
"I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he wrote.
For a company that burst onto the personal computing market in the Steve Jobs era with the slogan "think different," Apple employees have also heard another call to action from Cook: "Inclusion inspires innovation."
"All around the world, our team at Apple is united in the belief that organism different makes us better," Cook wrote when Apple's diversity report was released last year.
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