Tim Cook: 'I'm Proud to Be Gay'
The CEO of Apple says being gay has given him “the skin of a rhinoceros.”
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Just a few days after criticizing his home state of Alabama over gay rights, Apple CEO Tim Cook came out publicly in a personal essay for Bloomberg Businessweek.
Citing Martin Luther King as his inspiration, Cook writes that his inclination to keep his private life to himself was overridden by an increasing sense of duty to do his part improve the situation of gay people other minorities.