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• ‘GMA’ ANCHOR ROB ROBERTS PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG SHE’S GAY
• ROB ROBERTS ADMS SHE WAS 'AAID' TO E OUT PUBLICLY FOR YEARS BEE SHE DIDN'T THK SHE ULD BE 'GAY AND CHRISTIAN AT THE SAME TIME' - AND FALLY SPOKE OUT 'NOT FOR HERSELF' BUT FOR THE SAKE OF LONGTIME PARTNER AMBER
• ROB ROBERTS REVEALS SHE’S GAY
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

‘GMA’ ANCHOR ROB ROBERTS PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG SHE’S GAY

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ROB ROBERTS ADMS SHE WAS 'AAID' TO E OUT PUBLICLY FOR YEARS BEE SHE DIDN'T THK SHE ULD BE 'GAY AND CHRISTIAN AT THE SAME TIME' - AND FALLY SPOKE OUT 'NOT FOR HERSELF' BUT FOR THE SAKE OF LONGTIME PARTNER AMBER

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' Rob Roberts has opened up about the fear she felt before g out - admtg that she didn't thk she 'uld be Christian and gay' at the same time an say for People magaze The Good Morng Ameri host, 61, me out to the world 2013 via a Facebook post - after meetg her girliend Amber Laign 2005. The uple is pictured together 2019 Now, she has spoken out about why she kept her sexualy hidn for so many years, explag that she was 'aaid people wouldn't unrstand' herThe next person she told was one of her sisters years later, who burst to tears and said, 'I'm not cryg bee you're gay. ' Throughout her years at ABC, the TV personaly said that 'everyone' her personal life knew she was gay, cludg her 'fay, lleagu, boss, ' but she 'wasn't ready to say publicly.

ROB ROBERTS REVEALS SHE’S GAY

' 'I was aaid people uldn't unrstand that I uld be Christian and gay, ' she shared wh the outlet. Over the years, Rob (pictured last month) said 'everyone' her personal life knew she was gay, cludg her 'fay, lleagu, boss, ' but she 'wasn't ready to say publicly' After attendg GMA weatherman Sam Champn's weddg to Rubem Robierb 2012, and seeg them receive so much support om the public, she beme spired to speak out After unrgog treatment and a bone marrow transplant 2013 wh her partner, Amber, by her si, she realized was time to troduce her to the world.

'I love people people say, "I'm part of your tribe, " bee I know I am seen - not spe of but bee of who I tly am: gay and black and a woman. Roberts and Laign attend the 2014 Rpect Awards, held by the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network, New York Cy. "Throughout filmg, we started to feel like she and [Steve] shouldn't get together, and that she's gay, " she told IndieWire, claimg the official cisn was ma around the fourth or fifth episo of Stranger Thgs' well-received third season.

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In the origal seri bible, Will was scribed as "a sweet, sensive kid wh sexual inty issu, " but asi om some brief hts the character might be gay, that storyle has yet to be explored by the show. "RELATED | Stranger Thgs Actor Rponds to Rumors His Character is Gay. And she’s let viewers on some of the most personal aspects of her life cludg her breast ncer battle, her partner’s ongog ncer battle and, now, how she me out as gay to her sister.

Roberts publicly announced that she was gay 2013. As the ver star of PEOPLE‘s Pri Issue which celebrat June beg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Pri Month, she shared more tails about the first time she me out. RELATED: Rob Roberts, 61, Looks Amazg On 'People' Magaze Gay Pri Cover: 'GMA' Star Wears Rabow Drs As She Prays To J In Her Drsg Room “I cid to tell my sister Dorothy [when] I was my 20s.

And right when I say to her, jt like out of the movi, ‘Dorothy, I’m gay, ’ the server put down our lunch. “I look at her and she go, ‘Oh, oh, I’m not cryg bee you told me you’re gay.