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- JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
- MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
In a special appearance on Today and, later, a blog on the show's webse, the 39-year-old NBC rrponnt me out as gay and announced that she and her girliend, fellow NBC journalist Stephanie Gosk, are expectg a dghter at the end of Augt. ”That’s what my mom said after some force si of me phed me up the stairs and to her bedroom, where I fally told her I was gay. Durg fall quarter of my sophomore year at Northwtern Universy, I started to bee iends wh a group of stunts, mostly theatre majors, who were already out and proud.
As I assiated to the group, I didn’t really have to e out or say the words, “I’m gay. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world. Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay.
For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn.
MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
“I mentned to an assignment edor as a story we should ver, and I’ll never fet that person’s rponse: somethg along the l of, ‘Gay rights?
I don’t give a damn about gay rights. Wh the announcement this week that liberal journalist Steve Kornacki of Salon will take over weekend roundtable show, Up, MSNBC is addg s third openly gay anchor to the lp.
Maddow, who is gay, often lled upon Kornacki as a Roberts, who was recently married to Patrick Abner New York, also hosts his own midday show on the channel and was before that anchor for The Advote's onle newsst, which is no longer productn. It's 2011, after all, and I live Manhattan, surround social and profsnal settgs by gay people. They didn't thk I was terted any kd of relatnship - straight or gay.