NBC electn gu Steve Kornacki is openly gay and a big sports fan - Outsports

Contents:

• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
• WHO IS GAY AT CBS NEWS?
• NBC ELECTN ANALYST STEVE KORNACKI IS OPENLY GAY AND A BIG SPORTS FAN
• ON AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPORTER AT A MAJOR NEWSPAPER
• WHO IS MARA GAY?
• ALAN CUMMG ON BEG BROADST’S FIRST LEADG GAY CHARACTER ON CBS’ ‘INSTCT’
• JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
• ‘THE BLACKENG’ STAR DEWAYNE PERKS ON HIS GAY HORROR SPOOF CHARACTER AND MG HIS COMG-OUT STORY FOR COMEDY

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

"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The ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011. " 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. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.

MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)

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. Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist.

The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend.

Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn. In the same terview, he ma clear that beg homosexual and black had no negative nsequenc on his reer choic. He also scribed his birthplace, South Florida, as a highly gay-iendly one and further claimed that he tend to achieve his reer by beg hont about sexualy.

WHO IS GAY AT CBS NEWS?

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. Benson is openly gay and is married to his hband Adam Wise sce September 2019. Guy me out as gay for the first time while appearg on an episo of The Kelly File wh Megyn Kelly to promote his book, End Of Discsn (which he -wrote wh Mary Kathere Ham).

“In the book, a footnote, I me out as gay bee there was a whole chapter about gay rights and relig liberti, and I felt like was important for me to disclose to the dience jt ethilly, y, om a journalism perspective.

NBC ELECTN ANALYST STEVE KORNACKI IS OPENLY GAY AND A BIG SPORTS FAN

Smh, particularly after the 2016 electn, reaed om edorializg his news livery, which was sometim cril of the Tmp reportage put Smh at odds wh more right-wg hosts like Tucker Carlson as well as the print himself, who directed his ire at the gay anchor an Augt spoke to the "polarized" nature of the untry his fal Friday sign-off.

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

Somehow, the origal “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” premiered on Bravo two s ago this month, prentg five gay men – each specializg a specific liftyle area – as they scend upon a (ually) heterosexual male subject need of some support, whether was wh clothg choic, groomg, anizatn or perhaps an unrlyg issue around self nfince. It was a novel take on the makeover ncept, not only terms of beg one of the first monstroly succsful programs the then-nascent realm of realy TV, but also one of the first tl to feature not one – but five – gay people as the leads. (For ntext, had only been five years sce the s “Ellen” got nceled, shortly after the ma character played by Ellen DeGener me out as gay.

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WHO IS MARA GAY?

And anythg gay the zegeist has the potential to bee policized, then and now. “And we were a very nocuo group of five gay men helpg a straight guy try to get the job, or the look, or the girl. And for those who cricized the origal seri for rercg stereotyp by havg a gay fashnista or bety expert swoop to tidy thgs up, Colls creds his rint foodie Allen for a memorable moment at the show’s first NBC upont Los Angel back 2003, when he faced a slew of reporters and had the perfect retort.

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ALAN CUMMG ON BEG BROADST’S FIRST LEADG GAY CHARACTER ON CBS’ ‘INSTCT’

New reporter Kris Van Cleave, who looks and sounds a ltle like Ben Tracy, is gay. Roberts uld be was wh Victoria Silvstedt the hot Playboy got married then got volved wh hypercunt Alycia and ne ed to go to Philly almost every week to fuck uld be bi but no gay guy would go to Philly every week to beard wh such a foulmouthed Anonymoreply 48April 1, 2015 9:56 PM. Based on thgs he's said he's very gay posive so I don't thk he'd need to be closeted let alone married to a Anonymoreply 63July 8, 2015 1:50 PM.

How about Vladimir Duthiers on 50, sgle, and looks/sounds gay so Anonymoreply 77Augt 17, 2018 2:15 AM. In addn to beg a polil junkie and electns expert, the 41-year-old Kornacki is also a huge sports fan addn to beg openly gay.

Kornacki me out as gay 2011 a Salon magaze article and discsed his sports terts and how they didn’t seem to f what most gay men were to. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who is also openly gay and will be one of the work’s electn night anchors, was a petive swimmer and volleyball and basketball player.

JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK

Mike Del Moro, a bookg producer for MSNBC’s “Morng Joe, ” is openly gay and shared his story as an out llege swimmer earlier this year.

‘THE BLACKENG’ STAR DEWAYNE PERKS ON HIS GAY HORROR SPOOF CHARACTER AND MG HIS COMG-OUT STORY FOR COMEDY

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. “That was fe wh me, bee I didn’t want to ver jt gay stuff, even though that was part of what I wanted to do, ” he said.