CNN Anchor: I'm Gay
Contents:
- ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
- LIVELIHOOD 'ON THE LE,' ANCHORMAN REVEALS HE'S GAY
- DON LEMON COM OUT: CNN ANCHOR REVEALS HE'S GAY IN NEW BOOK
- ANRSON COOPER: BEG GAY ‘MA ME A BETTER PERSON, AND ’S MA ME A BETTER REPORTER’
- GAY CNN ANCHOR: MY WORK IS BETTER SCE COMG OUT
- CNN ANCHOR ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE FIRST REALISED HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS
- GAY CNN ANCHOR SE RISK BOOK
- GAY CNN ANCHOR: MY WORK IS BETTER SCE COMG OUT
ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
Anrson Cooper is a proment gay reporter wh the CNN news work. A scn of the Vanrbilt fay, Cooper got his start journalism by havg a iend create a unterfe prs pass, so that he uld report on issu overseas. In his reer, he has served as rrponnt and anchor for shows like World News Now, The Mole, Anrson Cooper 360, NewsNight, 60 Mut, and Anrson Live. Read the latt news about Anrson Cooper, who me out 2012 via a letter to Andrew Sullivan that was later published wh his permissn. * gay cnn anchor *
"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.
LIVELIHOOD 'ON THE LE,' ANCHORMAN REVEALS HE'S GAY
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The ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011.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.
DON LEMON COM OUT: CNN ANCHOR REVEALS HE'S GAY IN NEW BOOK
"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. 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. Anrson Cooper is a proment gay reporter wh the CNN news work.
What percentage of CNN's anchors are gay? 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.
ANRSON COOPER: BEG GAY ‘MA ME A BETTER PERSON, AND ’S MA ME A BETTER REPORTER’
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 anchorman Don Lemon says his mentors and agents challenged him to nsir whether he was willg to wear "the gay anchor" label throughout his reer.
One more facet of his life that he is revealg publicly for the first time: He is gay. "Do I want to be 'the gay anchor'?
After all, Amerins say they are acceptg of homosexualy by nearly a two-to-one marg.
GAY CNN ANCHOR: MY WORK IS BETTER SCE COMG OUT
The Defense Department is liftg the ban on gays the ary.
Former Vice Print Dick Cheney — hardly a liberal — has embraced the ia of gay marriage. Lemon was asked whether at this moment, beg gay would somehow tract om the perceptn of his performance.
CNN ANCHOR ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE FIRST REALISED HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS
" Wt said executiv nclud that an anchor would not be disqualified by publicly acknowledgg he or she is gay, but that there's a real risk that some viewers would turn away. " Jt two openly gay people hold proment on-air rol work or ble news at the natnal level. The nservative watchdog Media Rearch Center sgled out MSNBC's Roberts for cricism for tweetg an appeal to the pro-gay-rights sger Lady Gaga to appear on his show, and noted that Roberts is openly gay.
In late April, Maddow told the Brish newspaper the Guardian that closeted gay anchors should acknowledge their sexual orientatn. A meangful number of on-air televisn journalists are gay but do not explicly acknowledge that fact to the public.
There are no openly gay U.
GAY CNN ANCHOR SE RISK BOOK
Senators, Supreme Court jtic or current players the Natnal Football League or the Natnal Basketball Associatn — and there are very few top-paid gay or lbian Hollywood stars.
(In recent days, Phoenix Suns Print Rick Welts said he is gay. Many stori currently touch on sexual orientatn, such as gays the ary, the ordatn of gay clergy and the qutn of gay marriage. Lemon said he is ncerned some viewers may not accept hearg about such stori om someone whom they know to be gay.
In a new book, "Transparent, " Lemon talks about his life and his sexualy, and he revealed that he is gay an terview wh the New York Tim. "By g out, Lemon be one of a ty number of openly gay anchors on televisn; the list also clus Rachel Maddow and Thomas Roberts, both of the terview, Lemon said that he has never hidn his sexualy om his -workers at CNN, but cid to take a more public step after he felt that he uld not wre an spiratnal book whout beg open about who he also said that he was "sred, " bee he was talkg about thgs that "people might shun me for. ” Relatedble newsDon Lemondon lemon ndon-lemon-gayCNNPopular the CommunyYou May Like.
GAY CNN ANCHOR: MY WORK IS BETTER SCE COMG OUT
CNN anchor Anrson Cooper says he believ that growg up gay gave him an outsir’s perspective that has ma him a better person and journalist. “I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, ” Cooper said durg a Q&A on CNN’s “Full Circle” released on Monday.
Asked how he learned to “accept beg gay” and how old he was at the time, Cooper said that he was 6 or 7 years old when he realized “somethg was up. The CNN anchor said that he told iends high school and llege about his sexualy, but when he “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. “A lot of the thgs I wanted to do, at the time, you uldn’t be gay.