Tim Cook Comes Out

Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted to gay sexuality. He said this in his column on the Businessweek magazine website.

“So far I have not confessed publicly in my orientation,” writes the head of Apple. “Now I want to clarify: I am proud that I am gay, and I consider this one of the greatest gifts from the Lord.” Throughout my career, I tried to keep a certain level of privacy in terms of my personal life. At the same time, over the years, I do not hide my orientation, and many colleagues at Apple know that I am gay. But this does not affect their attitude towards me. ”

Rumors about the gay head of Apple went a long time. Over the past three years, American magazine Out Magazine called him the most influential representative of sexual minorities in the United States. In June of this year, Cook took part in a gay parade of Apple employees.

Cuming-out is a process of open and voluntary recognition of a person’s belonging to a sexual or gender minority, or the result of such a process. The term “coming out” is used primarily in relation to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals (abbreviated LGBT), who no longer hide their sexual orientation or the discrepancy between mental sex and biological sex from others. The expression "coming-out" is a direct borrowing of the well-established English-language expression coming out (abbr. From coming out of the closet - the letters. "Get out of the closet", meaning "get out of the darkness, open up").