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comment by Cumol
Cumol  ·  3455 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: CEO of Apple Coming Out: Does it Matter?

After thinking about it for a while, I think it does matter.

It does no directly influence me, as I support gay rights, but does influence many younger people that did not make up their mind about the subject.

So many teens own apple products and worship them that I think that many will start to associate being gay to "being cool". Even thought this is obviously the wrong reason to support gay rights. But I think that it will later lead to acceptance of gay people because the young ones will be confronted more often with gay people.