A look at how Rob Roberts of “Good Morng Ameri” and other news anchors broke the news that they are gay.
Contents:
- THOMAS ROBERTS HOSTS ‘NBC NIGHTLY NEWS’ AS FIRST OPENLY GAY NETWORK ANCHOR: TWTER REACTS
- JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
THOMAS ROBERTS HOSTS ‘NBC NIGHTLY NEWS’ AS FIRST OPENLY GAY NETWORK ANCHOR: TWTER REACTS
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31, 2013When Rob Roberts, an anchor of “Good Morng Ameri, ” disclosed this week that she was gay and a long-term relatnship wh another woman, she did so not a news release or on the ver of a magaze, but durg a seemgly sual asi a year-end Facebook a post on Sunday that looked back on her yearlong revery om a bone-marrow transplant 2012 to treat a rare blood disorr lled myelodysplastic syndrome, Ms. Roberts announced that he was gay at the annual meetg of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn, sayg that he had cid was time to go public wh news that he had already shared wh many of his -workers. Champn, the longtime weather anchor for “Good Morng Ameri” and now anchor and managg edor at the Weather Channel, never hid his homosexualy (and fact, me out a sual ment to a reporter the Vows lumn about the weddg of Mr.