Amazon: CEO Jeff Bezos has voted with his wallet: His 2012 donation of $2.5 million to a same sex organization in Washington state was believed to be the largest such donation at the time. Seattle-based Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) also released an ad spot that features a gay man buying a Kindle e-reader.
Apple: Tim Cook, the CEO of one of the world’s most important tech companies, went public with his sexuality last year. “Let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me,” he wrote in October. Cook said he had tried to keep his private life out of the public spotlight, but thought coming out would help people struggling with their own identity. And Apple (AAPL, Tech30) not only supported the overturning of DOMA, but as early as 2008, backed the effort against Proposition 8 in California.
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