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• MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
• JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
• THOMAS ROBERTS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EVENG NEWS ANCHOR ON NETWORK TV
• BRIAN WILLIAMS, NY TIM’ MARA GAY DRAGGED FOR BAD ON-AIR MATH ABOUT BLOOMBERG CAMPAIGN SPENDG
• STEVE KORNACKI BE MSNBC’S THIRD GAY ANCHOR
• NBC ELECTN ANALYST STEVE KORNACKI IS OPENLY GAY AND A BIG SPORTS FAN
• RICHARD LUI AGE, MARRIED, GAY, ETHNICY, MSNBC, SALARY, HEIGHT

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

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.

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

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THOMAS ROBERTS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EVENG NEWS ANCHOR ON NETWORK TV

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, NY TIM’ MARA GAY DRAGGED FOR BAD ON-AIR MATH ABOUT BLOOMBERG CAMPAIGN SPENDG

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STEVE KORNACKI BE MSNBC’S THIRD GAY ANCHOR

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

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31, 2013When Rob Roberts, an anchor of “Good Morng Ameri, ” disclosed this week that she was gay and a long-term relatnship wh another woman, she did so not a news release or on the ver of a magaze, but durg a seemgly sual asi a year-end Facebook a post on Sunday that looked back on her yearlong revery om a bone-marrow transplant 2012 to treat a rare blood disorr lled myelodysplastic syndrome, Ms. Roberts announced that he was gay at the annual meetg of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn, sayg that he had cid was time to go public wh news that he had already shared wh many of his -workers.

RICHARD LUI AGE, MARRIED, GAY, ETHNICY, MSNBC, SALARY, HEIGHT

Champn, the longtime weather anchor for “Good Morng Ameri” and now anchor and managg edor at the Weather Channel, never hid his homosexualy (and fact, me out a sual ment to a reporter the Vows lumn about the weddg of Mr. “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, ” Mr.

Quto was gay. “I’ve never shared that I’m gay on-air, even though I’ve been out to my fay, iends and -workers for years, ” he wrote.

9, 2014: An article last Thursday about the ways which several news anchors, most recently, Rob Roberts, have ma public their sexual orientatn misstated part of the name of the anizatn to which Thomas Roberts was givg a speech when he announced he was gay. It is the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn, not the Natnal Gay and Lbian Journalists we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn E, Page 6 of the New York edn wh the headle: ‘In Other News’: TV Personali’ Low-Key Comg Out. In a special appearance on Today and, later, a blog on the show's webse, the 39-year-old NBC rrponnt me out as gay and announced that she and her girliend, fellow NBC journalist Stephanie Gosk, are expectg a dghter at the end of Augt.