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An oldie but a goodie lol news blooper. Albuquerque anchorwoman Cynthia Izaguirre mistak bldns for gay-ns when throwg to a report about a man who climbed Mount Evert.

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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. 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.

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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The ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011.

" 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.

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

"I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, " Cooper add on "Full Circle. Shilts, often hailed as one of the natn’s first openly gay reporters for a major daily newspaper, was not the first choice on the list. As the edors at the San Francis Chronicle began to unrstand that they uld no longer ignore—or ny—that gay people were a major polil, enomic, and social force the muny, the stoic Chronicle took a bold step and sought out an openly gay reporter to ver gay-related stori the cy.

The Chronicle already had an unofficial “gay beat” via the work of cy-si reporter Ron Moswz, a wrer who moved over to journalism 1967 after workg as an ai to California ernor Edmund G. Moswz had begun quietly verg gay news as early as 1977 and wrote a noteworthy seri of articl 1979 about a policy of the US Immigratn and Naturalizatn Service that prohibed openly gay tourists om enterg the untry. As a rult, his tle as “the first openly gay reporter on a major daily newspaper” actually needs an asterisk.

Edor Alan Mutter relled that some qutns of objectivy persisted for some, but he and other edors were nsistent their statements to the newspaper’s edorial staff (and to rears) that they saw no nflict of tert havg a gay man report on gay issu, cludg AIDS, a disease epimic primarily impactg gay men. “Everybody went out of their way to be nice and supportive of me, and there had been somebody else the newsroom before me who was gay, so the edors and reporters were iendly, ” Shilts said. Origally assigned to ver general assignment stori, cludg some stori om the gay muny, as a new reporter Shilts took whatever an edor sent his way.

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