# Cook publishes ‘I am proud to be gay’ in Bloomberg Businessweek

Date: 2014

## The fact

On 30 October 2014 [Tim Cook](/people/tim-cook) published an essay stating he is gay, a completed civic-speech instrument by a Fortune-firm CEO.

## Context

Neighbouring CEO 2011 is the office. Neighbouring privacy rhetoric is later brand. He did not write a US civil-rights act.

24 August 2011 CEO appointment is neighbouring office. Privacy labels 2020 are later product-policy.

Tim Cook has been Apple CEO since 24 August 2011. He does not write a DOJ complaint, a Commission DMA decision, an Irish Finance Act, or a Chinese Cyberspace Administration rule. Steve Jobs is a different, dead person. A product launch is not a labour statute. A privacy keynote is not a completed DMA compliance certificate. Keep those dates separate. A 10-K climate page is not a unique ppm. An assembler audit is not a unique suicide count as his personal tally. A DMA listing is not a completed sideload world. A DOJ complaint is not a breakup. TSMC fabricates; Foxconn assembles; App Review enforces.

## Evidence and sources

Apple carries the official instrument or communique. [Bloomberg](/people/michael-bloomberg) records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) and [social cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion): a completed public coming-out by a major CEO is a representation-and-stigma instrument. An essay is not a supplier-country repeal of anti-gay statutes.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 30 October 2014 published essay, independently reported.

Not established: that workplace discrimination ended, or a unique later statute coefficient from the magazine.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Bloomberg ran it. Apple’s board did not gag. Supplier-country criminal codes remained neighbouring law.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Cook publishes ‘I am proud to be gay’ in Bloomberg Businessweek, not a later speech about Cook publishes ‘I am proud to be gay’ in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Cook publishes ‘I am proud to be gay’ in Bloomberg Businessweek on 2014-10-30 is not a licence to treat every later Apple communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Cook publishes ‘I am proud to be gay’ in Bloomberg Businessweek into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He wrote and published. Bloomberg ran it. Apple’s board did not gag. Supplier-country criminal codes remained neighbouring law. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tim Cook: https://factrail.ai/people/tim-cook

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights
- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-speaks-up
- https://www.apple.com/newsroom/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/aapl-cook-coming-out-2014