Tim Cook to receive Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award for LGBT efforts

Apple CEO Tim Cook is getting an award from the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights.

Last October, Cook came out as the first openly gay chief executive of a Fortune 1,000 company. In December, HRC announced that Cook had donated a “substantial” amount to help fund a gay rights initiative in his native Alabama and two other Southern states. The specific amount wasn’t disclosed.

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HRC’s Visibility Award is to be presented to Cook on Saturday.

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“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,” HRC President Chad Griffin said in a statement.

“They can dream as big as their minds allow them to, even if they want to be the CEO of one of the world’s largest companies.”

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