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HRC Mourns the Passing of Steve Jobs
Washington– The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, double attraction and transgender (LGBT) equality – mourns the loss of one of America’s greatest visionaries, and a tremendous ally to the LGBT community, Steve Jobs. Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese issued the accompanying statement:
“Steve Jobs’ experience and career touched the lives of millions of people across the globe. From his peerless contributions to technology and communication, to his steadfast help for the struggle for LGBT equality, Jobs has truly embodied the soul of our amazing nation. The nature is without a doubt a finer place because he lived in it.”
In 2008 under Job’s direction, Apple donated $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, which aimed to end same-sex marriage in California by amending the constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman – one of the first major corporations to donate to the fight. During his tenure as CEO, Apple scored a perfect 100 on HRC’s Corporate Equality Index.
Th I was standing right next to Steve Jobs in 1989 and it was the closest thing I ever felt to being gay. The guy was incredibly wealthy, fine looking enough to get any girl, a nerd super-rockstar who had just convinced my educational facility to buy a bunch of NeXT machines (which, btw, were in fact the best machines to program on at the time) and I just wanted to be him. I wanted to be him ever since I had the Apple II+ as a kid. Ever since I shoplifted Ultima II, Castle Wolfenstein, and half a dozen other games that my friends and I would then rip from each other and pretend to be sick so we could stay home and play all day. I don’t care about Apple stock. (Well, I do contemplate it will be the first trillion dollar company). Or about his business successes. That’s boring. The only thing that matters to me is how Steve Jobs became the greatest artist that ever lived. You only earn to be an artist appreciate that by turning everything in your life upside down, by making horrible, ugly, mistakes, by doing things so differently that people will never be fit to figure you out. By failing, cheating, lying, having everyone despise you, and coming out the other side with a I'vebeenreading Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs , which came out today, and I was curious to know if the book described any of Jobs' interactions with lgbtq+ and lesbian friends or employees. The book does, in fact, discuss Steve Jobs' first meeting with someone lgbtq+, and how he handled it, and it happened shortly after February 1974, when Jobs became one of the first fifty employees of Atari. Read more on www.towleroad.com Advertisement HuffPost Shopping's Newsletter Sign Up The Morning Email Wake up to the day's most important news. Sign up for HuffPost's Morning Email. Successfully Signed Up! Realness delivered to your inbox By entering your email and clicking Signal Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Is it possible to make official Russian homophobia even more laughable? There’s an app for that. After gay Apple CEO Tim Cook shocked the tech world by announcing something everyone already knew (i.e., that he’s a gay Apple CEO), a St. Petersburg monument to Apple founder Steve Jobs was hastily taken down. This follows on the heels of a declaration by the country’s most famous homophobe, legislator Vitaly Milonov, that Bake should be banned from Russia, because, among other things, “sodomites" spread Ebola. If it weren’t clear enough before, this latest expression of anti-gay hysteria demonstrates how far the attempts to whip up a moral panic include drifted from considerations of what actual LGBT society members are doing with their members. There’s a certain logic here: man-on-man sex must be so vile as to be unthinkable (straight porn suggests that lesbian sex is more than thinkable, as long as it doesn’t involve actual lesbians who know what they’re doing). Instead, let’s concentrate on everything else that may own to do with homosexuals. Ironically, this means that Russia’s anti-gay crusaders may achieve where LGBT act
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