Tim Gill
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Tim Gill (born October 18, 1953 in Hobart, Indiana) is an American computer software entrepreneur and gay rights activist.
Gill showed both interest and talent in computer science at Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, eventually studying the subject at University of Colorado at Boulder. After jobs at HP and a consulting services firm, Gill started his company, Quark, with a $2000 loan from his parents. Quark produced successful page layout software for the graphics market. Later, the company expanded into data storage devices, which brought Quark to the brink of bankruptcy and forced Gill to lay off half of his work force in 1981. With the introduction to Farhad (Fred) Ebrahimi later that year and the monumental success of QuarkXPress, Gill became a multi-millionaire.
The passage of Colorado Amendment 2, designed to prevent laws banning discrimination against gays, in 1992 prompted Gill to become involved in LGBT political action and he is now the foremost leading funder in that movement. His foundations, based in Denver and Colorado Springs are the Gill Foundation and the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado. His political endeavors, which are separate from his charitable foundation, are directed through the Gill Action Fund.
Gill also created Connexion.org as a vehicle for engaging the LGBT community in political activities.
Gill and his partner Scott Miller live in Denver, Colorado.[1]
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-- [2] New York Times
[4] Zdnet article about Quark
[5] Forbes Magazine article about Quark
[6] Quark Background
[7]-- Ebrahimi Takes Over Quark
