A memorial to Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs has been dismantled in the Russian city of St. Petersburg after the man who succeeded him at the helm of the company, Tim Cook, came out as gay.
The two-meter-high monument, in the shape of an iPhone, was erected outside a St. Petersburg college in January 2013 by a group of companies known as West European Financial Union, or ZEFS.
Citing the need to abide by a law combating "gay propaganda," ZEFS said in a statement Monday that the memorial had been removed on Friday — the day after Apple CEO Cook had announced he was homosexual.
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