Apple boss Tim Cook was a guest at the Human Rights Campaign’s national dinner in Washington, where he was presented with the organization’s Visibility Award.
The award recognizes LGBT individuals that the HRC considers good role models. Introducing Cook at yesterday’s dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the group’s President, Chad Griffin, declared: “Through his example and Apple’s commitment to equality, LGBT young people in particular can look to Tim Cook’s incredible career and know that there is nothing holding them back”.
In late 2014, Cook became the first chief executive of any Fortune 500 company to publicly come out as gay. In a speech at the dinner, he insisted that “sometimes you just have to be loud”, emphasizing that the public “need to hear that being gay does not give you limitations in life”.
US President Joe Biden was also in attendance, and told the crowd that Cook “has turned the world upside down, [and] understands that equality is not only a moral imperative, but is the heart of our economic might and our dynamism”. He added that the Apple boss has “given so much encouragement to so many brilliant young women and men in the LGBT community.”
