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.
Early in his life, Gill showed both interest and talent in computer science first at Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, eventually studying the subject at University of Colorado at Boulder. After two jobs in high-tech at HP and a consulting services firm, Gill started his company, Quark, with a $2000 loan from his parents. Quark produced a successful desktop publishing system for the Macintosh. Later, the company expanded into internet software and attempted to break 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 Fred Ebrahimi later that year and the monumental success of QuarkXPress, Gill became a multi-millionaire.
The passage Colorado Amendment 2, designed to prevent laws banning discrimination against gays, in 1992 prompted Gill to become involved in LGBT political action. Gill is now the foremost leading funder in the GLBT movement. His foundations, based in Denver and Colorado Springs are the Gill Foundation and the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado as well as the Gill Action Fund in Washington, D.C.
Gill and his partner Scott Miller live in Denver, Colorado.
