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Contents:
- THOMAS ROBERTS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EVENG NEWS ANCHOR ON NETWORK TV
- ANRSON COOPER COM OUT AS TV'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME TIME ANCHOR
- ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
- KREML APPOTS GAY-BASHG ANCHOR TO LEAD ITS MEDIA EMPIRE
- RSIAN TV ANCHOR COM OUT AS GAY ON THE AIR, GETS FIRED
- RSIAN TV TAK US JOURNALIST OFF AIR FOR GAY-RIGHTS PROTT
- GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
- RSIAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ANNOUNC MOSW MAYOR BID
THOMAS ROBERTS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EVENG NEWS ANCHOR ON NETWORK TV
Thomas Roberts Be First Openly Gay Eveng News Anchor On Network TV * first gay news anchor *
Thomas Roberts anchored NBC's "Nightly News" on Saturday, a huge tone for both the 42-year-old journalist's reer and gay rights history. Until the broadst, an openly gay person had never anchored the nightly news on work TV.
ANRSON COOPER COM OUT AS TV'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME TIME ANCHOR
A look at how Rob Roberts of “Good Morng Ameri” and other news anchors broke the news that they are gay. * first gay news anchor *
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ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
The host of the Gay Good News program on Facebook and the first out gay person to anchor a natnal eveng news broadst the U. S., has some gay good news of his own. * first gay news anchor *
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.
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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.
KREML APPOTS GAY-BASHG ANCHOR TO LEAD ITS MEDIA EMPIRE
Rsian ernment-fund TV channel RT was at the centre of a new ntroversy Thursday after takg an Amerin journalist off air for lnchg to a diatribe agast Rsia's anti-gay legislatn. * first gay news anchor *
(IAC chairman Barry Diller and Fox News anchor Shepard Smh are also regulars on the list, though neher has ever publicly scribed himself as gay. To be sure, the climate around gay rights is also very different than was when he was first named an anchor 10 years ago. Jt the last few months, Print Obama has clared his support for gay marriage, The Gap has ed gay-iendly imagery a major ad mpaign, JC Penney put gay parents a Father's Day ad while standg by Ellen DeGener as s spokwoman the face of a boytt, and Facebook -founr Chris Hugh married his longtime boyiend.
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RSIAN TV ANCHOR COM OUT AS GAY ON THE AIR, GETS FIRED
* first gay news anchor *
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RSIAN TV TAK US JOURNALIST OFF AIR FOR GAY-RIGHTS PROTT
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GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
On the other hand, David Muir is not gay. The long-nng seri beme an archetype for many realy shows and 1994, "The Real World: San Francis" featured Pedro Zamora, the first HIV-posive, openly gay person to star on the show. Zamora was open about his stat to his roommat and to the show's dience, brgg awarens and takg a step toward -stigmatizg the to the show, 1993, Zamora met Sean Sasser at the March on Washgton for equal rights for gay, lbian, and bisexual people, acrdg to Today.
Ellen DeGener me out as gay on her s 1997, makg "Ellen" the first prime-time s to have a gay ma character. DeGener' character on the s "Ellen" me out as gay 1997, makg the show the first prime-time s to foc on a gay character. Both sts of the "Queer Eye" anchise helped break down stigmas and stereotyp surroundg gay men.
RSIAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ANNOUNC MOSW MAYOR BID
"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, " which origally aired om 2003 to 2007, was groundbreakg bee starred five openly gay men, known as the "Fab Five, " each wh very different personali and skills. It helped show that gay and straight men uld easily teract and llaborate 2018, the show was rebooted on Netflix as simply "Queer Eye, " and beme more clive, allowg anyone, spe their genr inty or sexualy to get a makeover. A new "Fab Five" was also troduced, which was aga groundbreakg bee they were more diverse than their predomantly whe highly popular seri clus non-bary hairstylist Jonathan Van Ns, and gay dtry experts Tan France, Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski, and Bobby Berk.
Rachel Maddow beme the first openly gay news anchor to host a prime-time show 2008. Maddow was given her own news program, "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC 2008, beg the first openly gay person to achieve this.