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26 Jun 2019
Tim Cook was the first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO and came out in 2014 to help bullied LGBTQ youth.

Jordan, did you know that Tim Cook is literally the first Fortune 500 CEO to be openly gay? I did not know that. Fortune 500 has been published since 1955, and Tim Cook became CEO in 2011 and didn't come out until 2014. That's a good, I don't know, 69 years where representation didn't exist for young, aspiring LGBTQ business folks. There was no one to point to and think, I could belong in that boardroom. And I'm not just assuming that's the case. That's the reason he came out in 2014. In an interview with CNN, Cook describes how there had been rumors about his sexuality, but he kept his life private until he started to receive letters from youth who had been bullied because of their orientation. And he realized that it would be, quote, selfish for him to keep quiet when being public could help those people.