Well, he certainly hasn't come out of his activist closet, so until then I think anyone who's remotely progressive finds it trivial. Like, what's the first fact you'll know about Tim Cook? "CEO OF APPLE," not "GAY CEO OF APPLE," as if there's a straight one as well. Epitaphs such as these take precedence. Echoing cxavier,
There is no doubt in my mind that had Tim Cook come out earlier in life, he most likely would not be in the same position that he is in today. He has the ability to say he is proudly gay because it doesn't matter at this point- he's the fucking CEO of Apple. He's untouchable. He's got nothing to lose- unlike myself.
and I take his quote here as anecdotal evidence that popular faces in society are so abstracted yet influential. See, it's so far away from us that #whocares ? As for the mid-to-high-level manager at the company that makes Java (family friend), who is absolutely fabulous, by the way, but hasn't directly come out, I wonder if this will embolden him and others (particularly in tech world and of Gen X) to come out?
> Like, what's the first fact you'll know about Tim Cook? "CEO OF APPLE," not "GAY CEO OF APPLE," as if there's a straight one as well. Epitaphs such as these take precedence. It's like Kathleen Wynne when she got re-elected (as premier of Ontario). Nobody cared that she was lesbian. Hell, I didn't even find out until after the election was already over.