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Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay"
An anonymous reader writes Apple CEO Tim Cook has publicly come out as gay. While he never hid his sexuality from friends, family, and close co-workers, Cook decided it was time to make it publicly known in the hopes that the information will help others who don't feel comfortable to do so. He said, "I don't consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I've 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."
Cook added that while the U.S. has made progress in recent years toward marriage equality, there is still work to be done. "[T]here are laws on the books in a majority of states that allow employers to fire people based solely on their sexual orientation. There are many places where landlords can evict tenants for being gay, or where we can be barred from visiting sick partners and sharing in their legacies. Countless people, particularly kids, face fear and abuse every day because of their sexual orientation."
Cook added that while the U.S. has made progress in recent years toward marriage equality, there is still work to be done. "[T]here are laws on the books in a majority of states that allow employers to fire people based solely on their sexual orientation. There are many places where landlords can evict tenants for being gay, or where we can be barred from visiting sick partners and sharing in their legacies. Countless people, particularly kids, face fear and abuse every day because of their sexual orientation."
Doesn't qualify.
Mod parent up!
By the way, no AC? You must have the karma of Gandhi.
"Talking about your sex life," to me, implies that you are talking about the specific details of what you do in the bedroom with someone
Great, I'm glad you agree with me. Because telling your sexual orientation to people is telling people WHO you like doing specific things with in the bedroom.
And nobody would have a press conference to say that they were heterosexual because being heterosexual is not punishable by death...
IRRELEVANT, and you are completely missing my point. No one has a press conference for being heterosexual because random people don't give a rat's ass about what you do in your sex life, nor should they ever. If society has deemed the action to be legal, then no one needs to know. If you're touching kids in your bedroom, yeah society would like to know about this. Because it's illegal. If being a homosexual in another country is illegal and you can die, it's probably a better idea to make sure those people stay quiet; otherwise they might DIE. Do you want gay people in those unspecified countries to die?
If he was a paedeophile though, that definitely *would* be a reason to be "unproud".
A pedophile is just someone who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children. As long as you don't harm anyone, I don't see any reason to be "unproud." This "Think of the children!" scare really brings out the ignorance in people.