Politician wants Tim Cook barred from entering Russia For Being Gay

Hours after Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly addressed his sexuality for the first time, a St Petersburg politician has called for him to be banned from Russia. 

According to a translation by Buzzfeed, anti-LGBT campaigner Vitaly Milonov, a member of the legislative assembly of St Petersburg, drew on stereotypes of homosexuals to suggest Tim Cook could bring "Aids and gonorrhea" to Russia. 

He told the FlashNord website: "what could he [Cook] bring us? The Ebola virus, Aids, gonorrhea? They all have unseemly ties over there. Ban him for life."