by Patrick Appel
Tim Cook is Apple's new CEO. Felix Salmon asks why journalists are ignoring a key aspect of his identity:
[S]urely this is something we can and should be celebrating, if only in the name of diversity — that a company which by some measures the largest and most important in the world is now being run by a gay man.
Nicholas Jackson, on the other hand, argues that Cook "won't be a role model for the LGBT community until he confirms the rumors and comes out of the glass closet he is assumed to be living in":
Apple is widely regarded as a gay-friendly company (a survey of consumers conducted a few years ago found that Apple was ranked as one of the gay-friendly companies, second only to the Bravo network) and those at the top, when asked, said they would continue to support Cook if he came out. But they also worry that a gay executive could harm the perception of Apple's brand, according to Queerty. Would an openly gay CEO — not a bad product, not a flawed program — hurt the house that Jobs built?
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