A new bgraphy of the late Steve Jobs, wrten by Walter Isaacson, is out today, and is an acunt of the very first time Jobs met someone who was gay, back 1974. From a transcriptn of the bgraphy on Towleroad:He beme iends wh Ron Wayne, a draftsman at Atari, who had earlier star...
Contents:
- WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY
- APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS
- APPLE CEO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE'S GAY
- STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL RSIA REMOVED AFTER CURRENT APPLE CEO OUT AS GAY
- STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL RSIA IS REMOVED AFTER TIM COOK OUT AS GAY
- APPLE CEO TIM COOK IS 'PROUD TO BE GAY'
- REMOVAL OF STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL DUE TO 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TURNS OUT TO BE PR HOAX
WATCH TIM COOK EXPLA WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY
A look back at how Apple and Steve Jobs have long been champns for Gay Rights. * steve jobs was gay *
Apple CEO Tim Cook says he felt a “tremendo rponsibily” to publicly e out as gay.
Though many of the people he works wh already knew he was gay, Cook says, his cisn to speak up was spired by a Dr. Washgton– The Human Rights Campaign – the natn’s largt civil rights anizatn dited to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) equaly – mourns the loss of one of Ameri’s greatt visnari, and a tremendo ally to the LGBT muny, Steve Jobs. Durg his tenure as CEO, Apple sred a perfect 100 on HRC’s Corporate Equaly Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly.
APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS
A Rsian monument to Steve Jobs has been removed sce Tim Cook, Apple's current CEO, me out as gay. The monument, which was the shape of an over-sized iPhone, was loted on a universy mp St. Petersburg. Elizabeth Palmer reports. * steve jobs was gay *
I was standg right next to Steve Jobs 1989 and was the clost thg I ever felt to beg gay.
APPLE CEO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE'S GAY
A Rsian memorial to Apple -founr Steve Jobs has been removed after last week’s announcement by the pany's chief executive, Tim Cook, that he is gay. * steve jobs was gay *
A look back at how Apple and Steve Jobs have long been champns for Gay Rights. Apple, along wh a slew of other pani, recently leant s support to a recent filg on gay marriage that will soon be prented before the U. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposn 8 — we should not elimate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexualy, to marry the person they 8 asi, here are some other exampl of Apple stickg up for Gay kicks hateful apps to the curbIn Febary 2011, a Christian group lled Exod Internatnal released an app on the iTun App Store lled "Gay Cure.
" As the name impli, the app was meant to "helpg homosexual stgglers. " And if you take a look at the Exod Internatnal webse, they appear to be an anizatn oddly obssed wh "curg" homosexual app somehow ma past Apple's review procs, wh a 4+ ratg no ls.
Notably, this wasn't the first time Apple removed an app for s stance on homosexualy.
STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL RSIA REMOVED AFTER CURRENT APPLE CEO OUT AS GAY
Apple CEO Tim Cook wr an op-ed that he's proud to be gay * steve jobs was gay *
"Apple has a gay-iendly reputatn and rporate cultureIn a 2008 survey nducted by PlaOut, nearly 40% of gay and lbian rponnts dited that they strongly nsir Apple to be gay-iendly.
STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL RSIA IS REMOVED AFTER TIM COOK OUT AS GAY
Apple CEO Tim Cook was the first CEO of a Fortune 500 pany to e out as gay 2014 and he says he do not regret the cisn to shed his privacy. * steve jobs was gay *
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A tax break which was origally slated for Apple was subsequently taken away after Williamson County exprsed disapproval of Apple's equal rights policy for gays.
APPLE CEO TIM COOK IS 'PROUD TO BE GAY'
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Williamson County, however, soon changed their tune amidst much Jobs stands up for gay rightsBut one of the more touchg exampl of Apple's support for gay rights volv Steve Jobs Steve Jobs passed away, former NeXT and Apple employee Ronald Hayn wrote a post tailg his first experience wh Jobs back the 1980s. A uple of months later they turned that to verage for all gay employe at NeXT. Of urse, Apple is hardly alone s support of gay rights.
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Bs executive to publicly acknowledge that he's a untry where more major-league athlet have e out than top CEOs, bs lears said Cook's disclosure was an important step toward easg anti-gay stigma, particularly for employe the many stat where people n still be fired for their sexual, who led Out magaze's top 50 most powerful people for three years, said the say that while he never nied his sexualy, he never openly acknowledged , eher. "I've e to realize that my sire for personal privacy has been holdg me back om dog somethg more important, " he said he nsirs beg gay "among the greatt gifts God has given me" bee has given him both a better unrstandg of what means to be the mory and "the sk of a rhoceros, which handy when you're the CEO of Apple. "Bis Cook, there are no other openly gay CEOs the Fortune 1, 000, even though statistilly, 3.
REMOVAL OF STEVE JOBS MEMORIAL DUE TO 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TURNS OUT TO BE PR HOAX
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Who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr hi that part of their inty at work, acrdg to a study by Human Rights Campaign, the natn's largt gay-rights group.