Tim Cook Speaks Up

Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by driverdan on Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:01AM (#8532629)

> I think it was widely assumed that he was gay

By who, Apple fanboys? Your average person probably doesn't even know who is Apple's current CEO let alone that he's gay.

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by newscracker on Thursday October 30, 2014 @12:45PM (#8534088)

There were at least a couple of places where it was mentioned earlier this year (and it was kind of "known" in the past too).

Two links from April 2014: Out Magazine - http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/power-50/2014/04/15/what-d...

HuffPo (about the same) - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/out-power-50-most-p...

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by notahacker on Thursday October 30, 2014 @02:18PM (#8534748)

You'd have to be a weirdly obsessive anti-gay to spend your spare time perusing Out magazine or lists of most influential homosexuals, though I suppose such people do exist and you'd also have to be pretty weirdly obsessive to refrain from purchasing from a corporation on account of the sexual orientation of a member of its management team.

I'm gay, politically aware, and posting on HN on a MacBook and had no idea, though frankly I also don't browse LGBT power lists.

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by praneshp on Thursday October 30, 2014 @04:02PM (#8535472)

I don't think so. I'm not the poster you were replying to, I don't care if he's gay, and I don't go read such lists either. The CNBC 'outing' came up either on my facebook trends or on HN, that's the only two ways I get news these days.

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by downandout on Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:08AM (#8532666)

Tech media mainly.

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by Aloha on Thursday October 30, 2014 @12:12PM (#8533827)

Not just tech media - anyone who follows GLBT politics and rights assumed it too.

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