Anrson Cooper: 'Beg gay is one of the blsgs of my life' | CNN

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• ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD
• ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER SAYS SEEG A YOUNG RICHARD GERE SHIRTLS HELPED HIM REALIZE HE'S GAY: 'HE WAS SO BETIFUL'
• ANDY COHEN SAYS HE AND ANRSON COOPER HAVE BOND FURTHER OVER RAISG KIDS AS GAY DADS
• ANRSON COOPER IS A GRATEFUL NEW DAD: ‘AS A GAY KID, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE’
• ANRSON SPEAKS TO LEGENDARY AIDS AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS HOW RICHARD GERE HELPED HIM REALIZE HE'S GAY: 'I COULDN'T SPEAK'
• ANDY COHEN IS ‘SO GLAD’ THAT HIS KIDS & ANRSON COOPER’S KIDS CAN BOND OVER HAVG ‘GAY DADS’

ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’

Anrson talks about how he learned to embrace beg gay. Anrson Cooper was asked by a viewer on Full Circle about how old he was when he accepted that he was gay.

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

And not jt accepted , but fully embraced and me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay right after llege, ” Cooper said. Cooper shared that he stggled to e to terms wh beg gay bee of limatns he and others faced the late 80s.

ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY

Anrson thought about jog the ary, but 1982, the US Army clared homosexualy to be “patible wh ary service. ” Anrson wanted to travel, but beg gay was illegal some untri. “I thk beg gay is one of the blsgs of my life.

ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD

"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.

ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY

"I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, " Cooper add on "Full Circle. Anrson Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he was gay Friday on "Rad Andy.".

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY

Anrson Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he was gay on Friday durg the "Andy Cohen Live Pri Special" on SiriXM's "Rad Andy."The CNN host sat down wh Cohen and actor John Hill at the inic Stonewall Inn New York Cy. People reports Cooper relled watchg the Broadway play "Bent" the late 1970s wh photographer Pl Jasm and Jasm's boyiend, who were iends wh Cooper's mother, the late fashn signer, and sociale Gloria Vanrbilt.Richard Gere starred the play about the persecutn of homosexualy Nazi Germany."And this was Richard Gere 1977, 'Lookg for Mr. It was jt me and my mom's two gay iends," he said.

ANRSON COOPER SAYS SEEG A YOUNG RICHARD GERE SHIRTLS HELPED HIM REALIZE HE'S GAY: 'HE WAS SO BETIFUL'

Cooper lled the openg scene, which a man gets out of bed pletely naked and puts on a uniform, "the gayt thg you n image.""And I jt remember beg like, 'Oh my God, I'm gay. I'm totally gay," he said.After the play end, Cooper said Jasm took him backstage to meet Gere, who he worked wh on the film "Amerin Gigolo." Cooper shared that Gere was shirtls his drsg room when Cooper met him for the first time."I uldn't speak. He said he didn't tell her he was gay until he graduated llege, and although she was "ol about ," she told him not to make any "fe cisns." Cooper publicly me out 2012.

Anrson Cooper is openg up about when he realized he was gay — and when he "really, tly accepted . "I mean, I was probably, I don't know, 7, when I kd of realized — I'm not sure I knew the word 'gay' at the time, but I realized somethg was up. Somethg was different, " he said, rpondg to someone who asked him how he learned to accept beg gay and how old he was when he did.

ANDY COHEN SAYS HE AND ANRSON COOPER HAVE BOND FURTHER OVER RAISG KIDS AS GAY DADS

The news anchor said that while he had told people high school, wasn't until after llege that he "me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay. "I thk I really, tly accepted — and not jt accepted , but fully embraced and you know, me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay — would probably be right after llege, " he said.

"You know, I kd of stggled my teenage years, certaly, but even a ltle llege, " the father of one ntued, explag that "a lot of the thgs I wanted to do at the time, you uldn't be gay.

ANRSON COOPER IS A GRATEFUL NEW DAD: ‘AS A GAY KID, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE’

"And I wanna embrace who I am, and as I've said before, I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, " he said, addg that his perspective has "ma me a better person, and 's ma me a better reporter. " In 2016, the journalist was the first out gay man to morate a printial bate. "When I was 12 years old and knew I was gay and thought about my life, always upset me bee I thought, 'I will never be able to have a kid, ' " Cooper said June for PEOPLE's first-ever Pri issue.

Andy Cohen and Anrson Cooper are those gay iends who get a hoe together on Fire Island for the summer jt to make you feel bad about wh their Instagram photos -- although they're fely not rentg. Cohen and Cooper are also, apparently, those gay BFFs who have slept wh the same person, a gay experience so universal there should be a pamphlet about at the ee clic where you pick up your PrEP an episo of Watch What Happens Live!

ANRSON SPEAKS TO LEGENDARY AIDS AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST

""It's te, we jt found this out a few weeks ago, " said mak plete sense that Cohen and Cooper, beg wealthy whe gay men entertament, would have shared a sexual partner or two -- New York Cy only has so many twunks -- 's disappotg Cohen felt the need to e such an offensive, racially-charged term. Anrson Cooper said he first realized he was gay as a young child.

“I mean, I was probably, I don’t know, 7, when I kd of realized — I’m not sure I knew the word ‘gay’ at the time, but I realized somethg was up. The CNN anchor, 53, said he me out to some people high school but didn’t e “around to really lovg” that he was gay until he graduated om Yale Universy 1989.

ANRSON COOPER REVEALS HOW RICHARD GERE HELPED HIM REALIZE HE'S GAY: 'I COULDN'T SPEAK'

“I thk I really, tly accepted — and not jt accepted , but fully embraced and you know, me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay — would probably be right after llege, ” he said. Cooper explaed he had many terts at the time — and nsired jog the ary — but felt he uldn’t bee he was gay and worried for his “safety. The broadster also said that beg gay has ma him a better reporter bee giv him a different perspective.

ANDY COHEN IS ‘SO GLAD’ THAT HIS KIDS & ANRSON COOPER’S KIDS CAN BOND OVER HAVG ‘GAY DADS’

“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 wrote.