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Apple CEO Tim Cook endorses LGBT workplace protections in Auburn speech
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has never come out as gay publicly but has been named in Out magazine’s “Power 50″ list of most influential gays and lesbians for the past three years, endorsed the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act during a speech at Auburn University.
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LGBT History Month profile: Entrepreneur, Apple CEO Tim Cook
Tim Cook is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Apple, one of the world’s most valuable companies. In 2011, Steve Jobs handpicked Cook as his successor.
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Digital comic blocked over ‘tiny porno images’ depicting gay sex
Apple, known for its tight controls over material and apps sold through its channels, has blocked the latest edition of a digital comic called “Saga” from being sold through comic book apps on the iPad and iPhone because it contained two scenes depicting gay sex.
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Major U.S. corporations call on Supreme Court to strike down gay marriage bans
More than 60 U.S. corporations — including Apple, eBay, Facebook, Intel, Nike and Morgan Stanley — have signed on to an amicus brief in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court challenge to Proposition 8, California’s voter approved ban on same-sex marriage.
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies at 56
Steve Jobs, the iconic American CEO and innovative co-founder of Apple — who many credit with transforming the personal use of technology with products such as the iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, and thee Mac computers — died Wednesday. He was 56.
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Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook, could be the world’s most powerful gay executive
The sudden resignation on Wednesday of Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs paves the way for the ascension of Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who, upon being named Apple’s new CEO, was hailed by many in the LGBT community as possibly the world’s most powerful gay executive.
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Gay activist calls for boycott of retailers supporting Christian Values Network
San Francisco based gay activist and blogger Roy Steele is organizing, and calling for a nationwide boycott of retailer’s enrolled in the Christian Values Network (CVN) shopping web portal, including Sears, Walmart, Sam’s Club and Target.
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Apple pulls iTunes store from anti-gay ‘Christian Values Network’
Apple has removed their iTunes store from the “Christan Values Network” (CVN) after more than 22,000 people signed a petition on Change.org asking the technology company to stop allowing the funding of anti-gay organizations such as Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.
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Microsoft removes online store from anti-gay ‘Christian Values Network’
Microsoft Corporation on Thursday removed its online store from the “Christian Values Network” after more than 500 people signed a Change.org petition asking the software company to stop allowing the funding of anti-gay “hate groups.”
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Apple dumps ‘Gay Cure’ iPhone App after 146,000 people petition for its removal
Truth Wins Out and Change.org praised Apple today after the company removed a virulently anti-gay iPhone app launched by Exodus International that promoted “curing” gay people.