Apple CEO on Gay power list
By Techgirl

It will take many years and battles before gays get equal rights in India as they do in USA.  To their credit, media in India have done much, via their reports, to promote the cause of equality for same sex couples. Iconic gay media Out describes itself as ‘enriching your gay experience with thoughtful writing, stunning visuals, and authoritative coverage of fashion and design’

America and Europe based Out magazine has just published its ‘Fifth Annual Power 50’ list and at No. 1 spot is Apple COO / Acting CEO, Tim Cook.  Out magazine describes 50 Year old Tim Cook as ‘Each time Steve Jobs takes medical leave it’s Cook—“soft-spoken [and] intensely private,” to quote The New York Times -- who steps up to lead the world’s most valuable tech firm. While it is Jobs’s prescience that has kept the Cupertino, Calif., company at the cutting edge of technology, it’s Cook who made sure Apple could deliver as demand rocketed. Leader-in-waiting? Most definitely.’

Others in this Gay Power 50 list who are well known to Indians living in metropolitan cities include Ellen Degeneres, Peter Thiel,  Perez Hilton,  Matt Drudge and  Jodie Foster.

Indian tech industry is familiar with Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel who makes it to No. 7 in this Power 50 list.  Out describes Peter Thiel as ‘The PayPal cofounder invested $500,000 in Facebook in 2004. The worth of his share now? Close to $2 billion. And while his hedge fund, Clarium Capital, has dwindled from $7 billion in assets to about $1.5 billion, Thiel still manages to pour big bucks into his esoteric projects, including supporting life extension and artificial intelligence. He hosted conservative gay rights group GOProud and Ann Coulter in his New York City apartment last September and, in a hugely controversial move, has offered to pay 20 students $100,000 to drop out of college and start their own business.’

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.