Michal Marek [youtube id=”SMUNO8Onoi4″ width=”620″ height=”360″]
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Phil Schiller and newly appointed VP of Environment, Policy and Social Affairs Lisa Jacskon, along with other employees, participated in the annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Parade.
This event taking place in San Francisco is organized, as the name suggests, in support of sexual minorities, but the subject of the LGBT Pride Parade is also a general struggle for human rights and against violence. The event also sets itself the task of reminding how much work still needs to be done in the area of social equality.
Great to celebrate with over 8,000 Apple employees, friends and families. Happy Pride everyone! #applepride pic.twitter.com/2A9YD9z95B
- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 29, 2015
Cook, Jackson and Schiller were joined by an incredible 8 Apple employees this year, and at the 43rd annual event, Apple overtook other technology companies such as Google, Facebook and Uber in attendance. Among the people waving rainbow flags, which are typical for the movement fighting for the rights of sexual minorities, people with a bitten apple on their chest clearly reigned supreme.
San Francisco's annual Pride event is always held during the month of June and is capped off with a series of celebrations and events taking place during the last week of June. The climax is the so-called Pride Parade, and it was this climax that Apple employees with Tim Cook participated en masse.
All those white tee shirts? Apple employees. @SFPride #SFPride pic.twitter.com/lhKc9mBD7Z
— ¡Gabe Ortíz! (@TUSK81) June 28, 2015
Tim Cook repeatedly appeals for the respect of human rights and is a relatively well-known person in this area of "struggle". Apple has been fighting against discrimination for a long time, but with Cook becoming the head of the company, the company's involvement in similar initiatives has intensified. Cook himself is the only Fortune 500 CEO to publicly admit to homosexuality.
Previously, Tim Cook via the magazine The Wall Street Journal published a post urging Congress to pass a law designed to protect employees from discrimination based on their sexual orientation and gender. One American anti-discrimination law even bears Cook's name. Perhaps partly thanks to the initiatives of the Apple boss, last week the US Supreme Court decided to legalize same-sex marriage in the entire United States.
Among other things, the LGBT Pride event is also a reminder of the so-called Stonewall Riots from June 1969, when gays were violently arrested in the New York bar Stonewall Inn. After repeated raids by New York police officers at this bar, the local gay community rioted and began fighting with the police. The street battles lasted for several days and involved over 2 protesters. It was the first American (and probably world) appearance of gays and lesbians in the fight for their rights. This series of events became a kind of basic impulse for the emergence of modern homosexual movements.
instead of such nonsense, they should focus on the quality of the product and the OS. since I want to be politically/racially/oriented/etc. correct, it's worth the old white! icons, bugs... but what about the battery, the reliability of Safari, etc.? mainly because we have a black, white, pink, purple smiley. he was always angry and it never bothered anyone - not even me, honey !!
nothing against the above mentioned ... just that you solve nonsense instead of important things
please be aware that supporting gays is important. a company like apple can influence people. Tim is also a proper gay, smiley and friendly. jobs was a fascist pig in a turtleneck.
I think that the homos have more support than ever before, and they gave birth to Saudi Arabia, which the USA supports and which non-profits do not mind as far as critics of the so-called human rights are concerned, here in CR no one is trying to save their lives. And until Islamization begins thanks to the stupidity of our politics, no one will strive for their lives. And how does the LGBT repay us? The council marches deviance and perversion and increases HIV statistics.
I don't know why gays and lesbians should support each other. All of Europe is going backwards, the typical white family, if it exists, has 1 allergic, sickly child who is afflicted with dysgraphia and dyscalculia. Arabs have at least 3, but more likely 5 children. Let's support normal families, normal relationships, normal life. Let's tolerate gays and lesbians, but let's not create some kind of support. The Islamists will kill you anyway.