CNN anchor Anrson Cooper on when he realized he was gay

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• ANCHOR: "BUT.. HE'S GAY!" "EXCE ME, HE'S BLD."
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• ON AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPORTER AT A MAJOR NEWSPAPER

ANCHOR: "BUT.. HE'S GAY!" "EXCE ME, HE'S BLD."

Is there a world which you’d do a gay versn of Love Is Bld? The Ultimatum is super easy to do a fluid versn, a queer versn, a gay versn, a straight versn, whatever.

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'

Albuquerque anchorwoman Cynthia Izaguirre mistak bldns for gay-ns when throwg to a report about a man who climbed Mount Evert. "I'm not sure I knew the word 'gay' at the time, but I realized somethg was up, " Cooper said a Q&A ssn Monday on CNN's "Full Circle, " addg that he began to tell iends when he was high school but still stggled through llege wh fully lovg himself.

"I thk I really, tly accepted – and not jt accepted , but fully embraced and me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay – would probably be right after llege, " he said.

"A lot of the thgs I wanted to do at the time, you uldn't be gay, " he said, cg an tert jog the U. Ary, though out members of the gay muny were not allowed to serve at the time. The ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011.

ON AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPORTER AT A MAJOR NEWSPAPER

" He me out as gay to the public on July 2, 2012, allowg iend and wrer Andrew Sullivan to publish an email om him, sayg 'd bee clear that remag silent on the topic had given the false imprsn that he had somethg to hi. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud, " he has sce weled a son, Wyatt Man Cooper, born April 27, 2020 via surrogate. "I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, " Cooper add on "Full Circle.