Anrson Cooper knew he was gay at 7 years old

Contents:

• 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 SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY
• OPENLY GAY ANRSON COOPER SPL WH RTRANTER PARTNER; BOYIEND STILL FAY
• CNN PRENTER ANRSON COOPER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• TTHS ABOUT ANRSON COOPER’S GAY PARTNER AND FAY
• ANRSON COOPER IS A GRATEFUL NEW DAD: ‘AS A GAY KID, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE’
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER: AS A GAY MAN, FATHERHOOD IS 'A DREAM E TE'
• ANRSON COOPER: 'I'M GAY, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE'
• ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD
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HE GREW UP NEW YORK CY, ATTENDG THE DALTON SCHOOL AND LATER YALE UNIVERSY BEFORE PURSUG A JOURNALISM REER. HE BEME A RRPONNT FOR ABC NEWS 1995, MOVG TO ANCHOR POSNS ON CNN A FEW YEARS LATER AND HOSTG HIS OWN NEWS PROGRAM, ANRSON COOPER 360°, BEGNG 2003. COOPER HAS ALSO SERVED AS THE LONGTIME HOST OF CNN'S ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S EVE LIVE SPECIAL.EARLY LIFE AND FAY TRAGEDICOOPER WAS BORN NEW YORK CY ON JUNE 3, 1967, TO WRER WYATT EMORY COOPER AND SIGNER AND RAILROAD HEIRS GLORIA VANRBILT. FROM AN EARLY AGE, COOPER WAS EXPOSED TO HIS MOTHER'S GLAMORO LIFTYLE AND SOCIAL CIRCLE, MEETG THE LIK OF TMAN CAPOTE, AMONG OTHERS. AS A BABY, HE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED FOR THE VER OF HARPER'S BAZAAR BY DIANE ARB, AND LATER HE ENJOYED A BRIEF REER AS A CHILD MOL, APPEARG AD MPAIGNS FOR PANI SUCH AS MACY'S AND RALPH LREN. IN 1978, COOPER'S FATHER DIED DURG OPEN-HEART SURGERY, A TRAGEDY THAT WOULD FLUENCE THE WAY COOPER LIVED HIS LIFE. TRAGEDY STCK HIS FAY AGA A LATER, WHEN HIS BROTHER, CARTER, MTED SUICI BY JUMPG TO HIS ATH OM THE 14TH-FLOOR WDOW OF THEIR MOTHER'S NEW YORK CY APARTMENT. AS WH HIS FATHER'S ATH, CARTER'S SUICI FUELED COOPER'S DRIVE, AND HE WOULD LATER NNECT THE EVENT WH HIS REER AS A NEWS RRPONNT: "I BEME TERTED QUTNS OF SURVIVAL: WHY SOME PEOPLE SURVIVE AND OTHERS DON'T. ... COVERG WARS JT SEEMED LOGIL."BY THE EARLY 1980S, COOPER WAS ENROLLED AT THE DALTON SCHOOL, AN EXCLIVE, PRIVATE MANHATTAN STUTN. HE GRADUATED 1985 AND WENT ON TO ATTEND YALE UNIVERSY, WHERE HE STUDIED POLIL SCIENCE. DURG THIS TIME, COOPER ALSO TERNED WH THE CIA, A FACT THAT WOULD MAKE HEADL SOME 20 YEARS LATER. NEWS CORRPONNT AND ANCHORAFTER GRADUATG OM YALE WH A BACHELOR'S GREE 1989, COOPER BEGAN HIS NEWS REER AS A FACT-CHECKER FOR CHANNEL ONE, WHICH PRODUC NEWS SEGMENTS TO BE BROADST SCHOOLS AROUND THE UNTRY. BORED WH HIS DAY-TO-DAY JOB, HE TOOK A VIO MERA WH HIM TO SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND HIS FOOTAGE OF STRIFE MYANMAR AND PARTS OF AI EVENTUALLY LAND HIM THE JOB OF CHIEF TERNATNAL RRPONNT FOR CHANNEL ONE.COOPER'S REPORTS SOON ATTRACTED ENOUGH ATTENTN THAT, 1995, HE WAS HIRED BY ABC NEWS AS A RRPONNT AND THEN A -ANCHOR OF WORLD NEWS NOW. GROWG WEARY OF THE MANDG SCHLE, HE LEFT 2000 TO HOST A NEW ABC REALY SHOW, THE MOLE. BUT AFTER THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, TERRORIST ATTACKS, COOPER WAS PELLED TO RETURN TO THE NEWS, AND THE FOLLOWG JANUARY CNN TOOK HIM ABOARD AS A RRPONNT AND SUBSTUTE ANCHOR.'ANRSON COOPER 360°'IN 2003, CNN GAVE COOPER HIS OWN NEWS SHOW, ANRSON COOPER 360°, ON WHICH HE HAS EXAMED THE WORLD'S MAJOR STORI FOR NEARLY TWO S. THE SHOW WAS AN STANT SUCCS, AND COOPER HIMSELF BEME A HOEHOLD NAME, PROPELLED BY HIS REPORTG ON SUCH EVENTS AS HURRINE KATRA, THE ATH OF POPE JOHN PL II AND THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBG, AS WELL AS MUCH OF CNN'S POLIL AND ELECTN VERAGE.IN 2006, COOPER ALSO BEGAN AN ONGOG AFFILIATN WH CBS'S 60 MUT, TO WHICH HE HAS NTRIBUTED REPORTS ON SUCH TOPICS THE DG WAR MEXI, RAPE CONGO AND THE DIRE NDN OF RAL REEFS OFF THE AST OF CUBA.AWARDS AND MEMOIRCOOPER'S JOURNALISTIC OUTPUT HAS EARNED HIM NUMERO HONORS OVER THE YEARS, CLUDG A SLEW OF EMMY AWARDS. IN 2005 HE WON BOTH PEABODY AND NATNAL HEADLER AWARDS FOR HIS VERAGE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI; 2006 HE WON AN EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD FOR HIS RAL REEF REPORT; AND 2013 HE RECEIVED A GLAAD MEDIA AWARD, TO NAME JT A FEW OF HIS ACLAS. FDG SIAR SUCCS AS A WRER, HIS 2006 MEMOIR, DISPATCH OM THE EDGE—ABOUT HIS EXPERIENC VERG WAR AND TRAGEDY—BEME A NEW YORK TIM BT SELLER.TALK SHOW AND 'NEW YEAR'S EVE LIVE'IN SEPTEMBER 2011, COOPER BUTED A DAYTIME TALK SHOW, ANRSON (LATER REBRAND ANRSON LIVE). HOWEVER, THE SHOW FAILED TO MAKE A SIZABLE IMPACT WH FANS AND WAS OFF THE AIR LS THAN TWO YEARS LATER.THE NEWSMAN HAS ENJOYED MORE SUCCS AS THE HOST OF CNN'S ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S EVE LIVE SPECIAL SCE 2002, WH IEND ANDY COHEN JOG HIM FOR VERAGE BEGNG 2017. NORMALLY TASKED WH EXPLAG THE ACTNS OF FORMER -HOST KATHY GRIFF, ANRSON FOUND HIMSELF FENDG ONE OF THAT NIGHT'S SEGMENTS WHICH A RRPONNT REPORTED OM SI A B FILLED WH PEOPLE SMOKG MARIJUANA.PERSONAL HEADLIN JULY 2012, COOPER NFIRMED THAT HE IS A GAY MAN, AFTER YEARS OF REMAG PRIVATE REGARD TO HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN. THE NEWS UNFOLD AFTER HIS IEND ANDREW SULLIVAN, A WRER FOR THE DAILY BEAST, ASKED COOPER FOR HIS REACTN TO AN ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY STORY. COOPER'S RPONSE, WHICH SULLIVAN LATER PUBLICLY POSTED ONLE, WAS AS FOLLOWS: "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."IN MARCH 2014, COOPER'S PERSONAL LIFE MA HEADL AGA AFTER HE REVEALED DURG A NDID TERVIEW ON HOWARD STERN'S RAD SHOW THAT HE WOULD NOT HER ANY OF HIS MOTHER'S SIZABLE FORTUNE AFTER HER PASSG. A LNAIRE HIS OWN RIGHT, COOPER WENT ON TO CLARIFY THAT WAS NOT AN ISSUE FOR HIM, SAYG, "I DON'T BELIEVE HERG MONEY. I THK 'S AN IATIVE SUCKER. I THK 'S A CURSE." HE FURTHER PRAISED HIS MOTHER AND CREDED HER WH GIVG HIM HIS DRIVE TO WORK HARD AND SUCCEED.COOPER'S RELATNSHIP WH VANRBILT WAS THE FOC OF THE HBO DOCUMENTARY NOTHG LEFT UNSAID, WHICH AIRED EARLY APRIL 2016. ITS RELEASE WAS ACPANIED BY A JOT MEMOIR TLED THE RABOW COM AND GO: A MOTHER AND SON ON LIFE, LOVE AND LOSS. VANRBILT PASSED AWAY THREE YEARS LATER, JUNE 2019.IN APRIL 2020, COOPER BEME A FATHER WH THE BIRTH OF SON WYATT MAN VIA A SURROGATE. IN FEBARY 2020, HE ANNOUNCED THE BIRTH OF HIS SEND SON, SEBASTIAN {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY

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. And not jt accepted , but fully embraced and me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay right after llege, ” Cooper said.

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

Cooper shared that he stggled to e to terms wh beg gay bee of limatns he and others faced the late 80s. 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. "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.

ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY

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.

OPENLY GAY ANRSON COOPER SPL WH RTRANTER PARTNER; BOYIEND STILL FAY

"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. "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 opened up about the moment he realized he was gay on Friday durg the "Andy Cohen Live Pri Special" on SiriXM's "Rad Andy. Richard Gere starred the play about the persecutn of homosexualy Nazi Germany. It was jt me and my mom's two gay iends, " he said.

CNN PRENTER ANRSON COOPER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

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....

TTHS ABOUT ANRSON COOPER’S GAY PARTNER AND FAY

I'm totally gay, " he the play end, Cooper said Jasm took him backstage to meet Gere, who he worked wh on the film "Amerin Gigolo. 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.

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

Page Six today has a not-very-thly-veiled em about Anrson Cooper gog on a very gay vatn wh his very gay boyiend who owns a very gay bar.

Enough: Anrson Cooper is very gay.

" CNN cled to Cooper is gay is no longer a sop. Wh today's em Page Six may have exhsted all the ways to say "He's GAY GAY GAY! Every 'mo New York knows Eastern Bloc is a grty, dirty gay bar ("a te man meat bar") that often has boy-on-boy porn playg on s TVs.

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

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

Word on the street is that Madonna's recent appearance there had ls to do wh her gettg back to her East Village gay roots and more to do wh the fact that she was wh Cooper, who wanted to play "whose boy toy is hotter" wh 's see-through closet is such a joke that don't make sense to ll him the closet anymore.

ANRSON COOPER: AS A GAY MAN, FATHERHOOD IS 'A DREAM E TE'

He is part of an creasgly large crowd of notabl who won't e out but have given up tryg to hi that they are gay. Ricky Mart has stopped even tryg to fight the gay mors. Jodie Foster has never said she's a lbian out loud, but she basilly me out when she thanked her partner an acceptance gay-not-gay celebri are different om the Hugh Jackmans, John Travoltas, Tom Cis, and Kenny Chneys, who are all nstantly plagued wh gay mors that they strenuoly try to ny or flect.

If they're gay, they're dog secret. Cooper and his set of horts live openly gay liv — and that's a good thg — but they refe to acknowledge what the public already Anrson Cooper's specific se, we sort of unrstand why he won't open his mouth and let the rabows fly. Every time he tried to ver somethg havg to do wh gay civil rights (or Madonna or Fire Island) plenty of people would claim that his reportg was biased bee of his sexual orientatn.

Rachel Maddow has paved the way, but all the baby gays out there need you to man up and be our Jackie Robson.

ANRSON COOPER: 'I'M GAY, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE'

After keepg his sexualy a secret for years, Anrson Cooper me out of the closet and announced himself gay back 2012.

Anrson Cooper is well-known as one of the most popular televisn personali and journalist who also is an openly gay man. Openly Gay Anrson Cooper Spl Wh Benjam MaisaniAnrson Cooper, a proment openly gay journalist, behd all the mera reportg, was a relatnship wh NYC nightclub mogul, Benjam Maisani sce 2009.

ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD

Stretchg his profsnal trivia, Benjam is a succsful bar owner and owns several gay bars NYC cludg Eastern bloc, Bedlam Bar & Lounge, and Atlas Social Also: KGW's John Tierney Fay: Married Man Wh Wrer Wife, Smooth & SteadyTogether Or Not?

Rumored Gay Man Datg Or Married? July 2, 2012: Anrson Cooper out as gay. Cooper publicly me out as gay July of 2012 an open letter to his longtime iend, journalist Andrew Sullivan.

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HE GREW UP NEW YORK CY, ATTENDG THE DALTON SCHOOL AND LATER YALE UNIVERSY BEFORE PURSUG A JOURNALISM REER. HE BEME A RRPONNT FOR ABC NEWS 1995, MOVG TO ANCHOR POSNS ON CNN A FEW YEARS LATER AND HOSTG HIS OWN NEWS PROGRAM, ANRSON COOPER 360°, BEGNG 2003. COOPER HAS ALSO SERVED AS THE LONGTIME HOST OF CNN'S ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S EVE LIVE SPECIAL.EARLY LIFE AND FAY TRAGEDICOOPER WAS BORN NEW YORK CY ON JUNE 3, 1967, TO WRER WYATT EMORY COOPER AND SIGNER AND RAILROAD HEIRS GLORIA VANRBILT. FROM AN EARLY AGE, COOPER WAS EXPOSED TO HIS MOTHER'S GLAMORO LIFTYLE AND SOCIAL CIRCLE, MEETG THE LIK OF TMAN CAPOTE, AMONG OTHERS. AS A BABY, HE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED FOR THE VER OF HARPER'S BAZAAR BY DIANE ARB, AND LATER HE ENJOYED A BRIEF REER AS A CHILD MOL, APPEARG AD MPAIGNS FOR PANI SUCH AS MACY'S AND RALPH LREN. IN 1978, COOPER'S FATHER DIED DURG OPEN-HEART SURGERY, A TRAGEDY THAT WOULD FLUENCE THE WAY COOPER LIVED HIS LIFE. TRAGEDY STCK HIS FAY AGA A LATER, WHEN HIS BROTHER, CARTER, MTED SUICI BY JUMPG TO HIS ATH OM THE 14TH-FLOOR WDOW OF THEIR MOTHER'S NEW YORK CY APARTMENT. AS WH HIS FATHER'S ATH, CARTER'S SUICI FUELED COOPER'S DRIVE, AND HE WOULD LATER NNECT THE EVENT WH HIS REER AS A NEWS RRPONNT: "I BEME TERTED QUTNS OF SURVIVAL: WHY SOME PEOPLE SURVIVE AND OTHERS DON'T. ... COVERG WARS JT SEEMED LOGIL."BY THE EARLY 1980S, COOPER WAS ENROLLED AT THE DALTON SCHOOL, AN EXCLIVE, PRIVATE MANHATTAN STUTN. HE GRADUATED 1985 AND WENT ON TO ATTEND YALE UNIVERSY, WHERE HE STUDIED POLIL SCIENCE. DURG THIS TIME, COOPER ALSO TERNED WH THE CIA, A FACT THAT WOULD MAKE HEADL SOME 20 YEARS LATER. NEWS CORRPONNT AND ANCHORAFTER GRADUATG OM YALE WH A BACHELOR'S GREE 1989, COOPER BEGAN HIS NEWS REER AS A FACT-CHECKER FOR CHANNEL ONE, WHICH PRODUC NEWS SEGMENTS TO BE BROADST SCHOOLS AROUND THE UNTRY. BORED WH HIS DAY-TO-DAY JOB, HE TOOK A VIO MERA WH HIM TO SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND HIS FOOTAGE OF STRIFE MYANMAR AND PARTS OF AI EVENTUALLY LAND HIM THE JOB OF CHIEF TERNATNAL RRPONNT FOR CHANNEL ONE.COOPER'S REPORTS SOON ATTRACTED ENOUGH ATTENTN THAT, 1995, HE WAS HIRED BY ABC NEWS AS A RRPONNT AND THEN A -ANCHOR OF WORLD NEWS NOW. GROWG WEARY OF THE MANDG SCHLE, HE LEFT 2000 TO HOST A NEW ABC REALY SHOW, THE MOLE. BUT AFTER THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, TERRORIST ATTACKS, COOPER WAS PELLED TO RETURN TO THE NEWS, AND THE FOLLOWG JANUARY CNN TOOK HIM ABOARD AS A RRPONNT AND SUBSTUTE ANCHOR.'ANRSON COOPER 360°'IN 2003, CNN GAVE COOPER HIS OWN NEWS SHOW, ANRSON COOPER 360°, ON WHICH HE HAS EXAMED THE WORLD'S MAJOR STORI FOR NEARLY TWO S. THE SHOW WAS AN STANT SUCCS, AND COOPER HIMSELF BEME A HOEHOLD NAME, PROPELLED BY HIS REPORTG ON SUCH EVENTS AS HURRINE KATRA, THE ATH OF POPE JOHN PL II AND THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBG, AS WELL AS MUCH OF CNN'S POLIL AND ELECTN VERAGE.IN 2006, COOPER ALSO BEGAN AN ONGOG AFFILIATN WH CBS'S 60 MUT, TO WHICH HE HAS NTRIBUTED REPORTS ON SUCH TOPICS THE DG WAR MEXI, RAPE CONGO AND THE DIRE NDN OF RAL REEFS OFF THE AST OF CUBA.AWARDS AND MEMOIRCOOPER'S JOURNALISTIC OUTPUT HAS EARNED HIM NUMERO HONORS OVER THE YEARS, CLUDG A SLEW OF EMMY AWARDS. IN 2005 HE WON BOTH PEABODY AND NATNAL HEADLER AWARDS FOR HIS VERAGE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI; 2006 HE WON AN EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD FOR HIS RAL REEF REPORT; AND 2013 HE RECEIVED A GLAAD MEDIA AWARD, TO NAME JT A FEW OF HIS ACLAS. FDG SIAR SUCCS AS A WRER, HIS 2006 MEMOIR, DISPATCH OM THE EDGE—ABOUT HIS EXPERIENC VERG WAR AND TRAGEDY—BEME A NEW YORK TIM BT SELLER.TALK SHOW AND 'NEW YEAR'S EVE LIVE'IN SEPTEMBER 2011, COOPER BUTED A DAYTIME TALK SHOW, ANRSON (LATER REBRAND ANRSON LIVE). HOWEVER, THE SHOW FAILED TO MAKE A SIZABLE IMPACT WH FANS AND WAS OFF THE AIR LS THAN TWO YEARS LATER.THE NEWSMAN HAS ENJOYED MORE SUCCS AS THE HOST OF CNN'S ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S EVE LIVE SPECIAL SCE 2002, WH IEND ANDY COHEN JOG HIM FOR VERAGE BEGNG 2017. NORMALLY TASKED WH EXPLAG THE ACTNS OF FORMER -HOST KATHY GRIFF, ANRSON FOUND HIMSELF FENDG ONE OF THAT NIGHT'S SEGMENTS WHICH A RRPONNT REPORTED OM SI A B FILLED WH PEOPLE SMOKG MARIJUANA.PERSONAL HEADLIN JULY 2012, COOPER NFIRMED THAT HE IS A GAY MAN, AFTER YEARS OF REMAG PRIVATE REGARD TO HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN. THE NEWS UNFOLD AFTER HIS IEND ANDREW SULLIVAN, A WRER FOR THE DAILY BEAST, ASKED COOPER FOR HIS REACTN TO AN ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY STORY. COOPER'S RPONSE, WHICH SULLIVAN LATER PUBLICLY POSTED ONLE, WAS AS FOLLOWS: "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."IN MARCH 2014, COOPER'S PERSONAL LIFE MA HEADL AGA AFTER HE REVEALED DURG A NDID TERVIEW ON HOWARD STERN'S RAD SHOW THAT HE WOULD NOT HER ANY OF HIS MOTHER'S SIZABLE FORTUNE AFTER HER PASSG. A LNAIRE HIS OWN RIGHT, COOPER WENT ON TO CLARIFY THAT WAS NOT AN ISSUE FOR HIM, SAYG, "I DON'T BELIEVE HERG MONEY. I THK 'S AN IATIVE SUCKER. I THK 'S A CURSE." HE FURTHER PRAISED HIS MOTHER AND CREDED HER WH GIVG HIM HIS DRIVE TO WORK HARD AND SUCCEED.COOPER'S RELATNSHIP WH VANRBILT WAS THE FOC OF THE HBO DOCUMENTARY NOTHG LEFT UNSAID, WHICH AIRED EARLY APRIL 2016. ITS RELEASE WAS ACPANIED BY A JOT MEMOIR TLED THE RABOW COM AND GO: A MOTHER AND SON ON LIFE, LOVE AND LOSS. VANRBILT PASSED AWAY THREE YEARS LATER, JUNE 2019.IN APRIL 2020, COOPER BEME A FATHER WH THE BIRTH OF SON WYATT MAN VIA A SURROGATE. 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"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, " Cooper wrote.

"As a gay kid, I never thought would be possible to have a child, and I'm grateful for all those who have paved the way. He ntu: "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. "Cooper's sexual orientatn had long been subject to show, Anrson Cooper 360, received an award earlier this year om a gay rights group.

ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY

Who is Anrson Cooper’s Gay Partner Benjam Maisani? He started off as a bartenr at a gay bar. After some years of experience, he started his own gay bar which he lled Eastern Bloc.