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Contents:
- ANRSON COOPER COM OUT AS TV'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME TIME ANCHOR
- HOW RACHEL MADDOW BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO HOST A PRIME TIME NEWS SHOW
ANRSON COOPER COM OUT AS TV'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME TIME ANCHOR
Officially gay. After years of silence on the subject, the CNN host has spoken out about his sexual orientatn, beg the first major work prime time anchor to intify as gay. Cooper ma the disclosure to The Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan, sayg, "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.
To say his homosexualy has been an open secret until now stretch the fn of the word "secret. " While Cooper has never lled himself gay, that hasn't stopped others.
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HOW RACHEL MADDOW BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO HOST A PRIME TIME NEWS SHOW
Cooper isn't the first openly gay ble news host. I've altered the headle and first paragraph to reflect that Cooper is the first prime time news anchor to intify as gay. Years before TV host Rachel Maddow climbed to the top of prime time news charts as the first openly gay woman host, she worked her fair share of odd jobs and me out by postg flyers her Stanford dorm.
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