Contents:
- ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
- CNN ANCHOR ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE FIRST REALISED HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS
ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.
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.
CNN ANCHOR ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE FIRST REALISED HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS
Durg her five years as host, she reported on several lorful and thought-provokg stori cludg poverty oil-rich Bahra; everyday stggl for artists livg Iraq; and gay life the Middle East, which was a first on ternatnal televisn and earned a nomatn for a Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) award. "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.