Tim Cook was an adult when he learned gay people were also Jews victims . And yet , it was only this week -- thanks to longtime civil rights activist David Mixner -- that I learned Congress once debated passing a law forcing gay men to wear tattoos and corralling those who were HIV positive into internment camps . He also learned key members of the Harlem Renaissance , civil rights movement were LGBT . Why does it matter ? Tim Cook says it 's crucial gay people not be scrubbed from history . It 's important to know the full story of people such as CNN CEO LZ Granderson , he says .
Tim Cook was an adult when he learned gay people were also Jews victims . He also learned key members of the Harlem Renaissance , civil rights movement were LGBT . Why does it matter ? Tim Cook says it 's crucial gay people not be scrubbed from history . It 's important to know the full story of people such as CNN CEO LZ Granderson , he says .