From Tim Cook at Apple to Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, More Than 80 High-Profile Business Leaders Show They Are Willing to Stand Up for Equality

You know their companies’ names, and probably many of their names. They are the heads of companies that are household brand names, and they are lending their names and the weight of the corporations they run to fight North Carolina‘s anti-LGBT law. Apple CEO Tim Cook. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Film magnatesÂ Bob & Harvey Weinstein. CEOs from Google, IBM, PayPal, Marriott, Yelp, Jawbone, and Yahoo. And more, from the worlds of tech, biotech, and finance.

In a letter sent under the Human Rights Campaign and Equality North Carolina logos,Â to North Carolina GOP Gov. Pat McCrory, more than 80 business leaders, including those named above, and many more, make clear: “HB 2 is not a bill that reflects the values of our companies, of our country, or even the overwhelming majority of North Carolinians.”

The industry titans “strongly urge” Gov. McCrory “and the leadership of North Carolinaâ€™s legislature to repeal this law in the upcoming legislative session.”

“We are disappointed in your decision to sign this discriminatory legislation into law,” they say of HB2, a law that voids LGBT nondiscrimination laws and prohibits any locale from enacting new ones. “The business community, by and large, has consistently communicated to lawmakers at every level that such laws are bad for our employees and bad for business. This is not a direction in which states move when they are seeking to provide successful, thriving hubs for business and economic development.”

“We believe that HB 2 will make it far more challenging for businesses across the state to recruit and retain the nationâ€™s best and brightest workers and attract the most talented students from across the country. It will also diminish the stateâ€™s draw as a destination for tourism, new businesses, and economic activity.”

Here’s the full text of the letter, and below, its signatories: