I'm glad he did. It's not about him being gay that deserves an award. It's about telling something about himself that has, historically, been ostracized and for which people have been hunted down and tortured and killed. People still lose jobs over something like that. Knowing what has happened to gay people, the civil rights violations that they have endured and the judgments from societies that I've seen and read about, I believe it makes someone who is such a public figure brave for doing that. I dont think it was anyone's surprise that he is gay, I think it was just a confirmation of what everyone already knew and without that in the way they can get back to the business of making phones and computers.
This is a pretty good article:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/30/opinio...html?hpt=hp_t3