Friday, June 5, 2015

Technology companies who support gay marriage – Digital Look

In times of commercial perfume brands suffering boycott threats for speaking out in favor of gay rights, it is important to remember that the technology industry has been doing this a long time. . Many companies have already positioned themselves in favor of the struggle for LGBT rights

Also Taking advantage of the proximity of the Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, listed technology companies that have spoken in favor of respect for sexual diversity:

Apple
In addition to Tim Cook, chief executive of the company, being gay the company often it is represented by a group of employees in gay parades in San Francisco, city near the company’s headquarters in Cupertino. You can find the company logo bypassed by the LGBT rainbow flag.

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Google
Google may not have a large gay executive, but the company often expresses Please respect for diversity including a group of gay employees, called “Gayglers” word of the mixture “gay” with “googler” as they are called the company’s employees. There are records of groups participating in gay pride parades in London, San Francisco and even St. Paul.

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Microsoft
Like Google, there can be a large gay executive, but not lacking demonstrations of support for gay rights. Starting with this commercial Outlook, released in 2013:

They are also frequent participation in gay pride parades around the world. In 2013, even Master Chief, the protagonist of the series of Halo games, appeared in an edition held in Seattle:

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Facebook
Even if the companies mentioned above: abound public displays of support for the LGBT cause. There’s even a video of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, heterosexual and married, jumping and dancing at the Gay Parade in San Francisco in 2013.

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Motorola
This is recent, and it happened in Brazil. Motorola publicly supported the 2015 edition of the Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, offering six free Internet hotspots at bus stops from Avenida Paulista. The company was not afraid to involve your logo with the struggle for LGBT rights:

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Who else?
This year, several American companies (more precisely 379) began a Mission pressing the Supreme Court of the United States to prevent the states banam the marriage of persons of the same sex. In the list were several technology companies. Below are the major companies to sign the document:

  • Amazon.com
  • Apple
  • Cisco
  • Dropbox
  • eBay
  • Electronic Arts
  • Facebook
  • General Electric
  • Google
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Oracle
  • Qualcomm
  • Twitter
  • Xerox
  • Zynga
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