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Contents:
- ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY
- ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY
- ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY
- ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’
- INTRODUCG COOPER GAY
- COOPER GAY
- ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY
- ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD
ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY
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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.
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.
ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY
Anrson Cooper opened up about when he first realized he was gay and when he accepted , and he explaed that those were very different tim his life. * a cooper 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.
"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.
ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY
Anrson Cooper was asked by a viewer on Full Circle about how old he was when he accepted that he was gay. * a cooper gay *
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ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’
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""And I jt remember beg like, 'Oh my God, I'm gay.... 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 was 45 years old when he me out publicly 2012, but this week, a CNN viewer wanted to know what age the newsman was when he first realized he was gay and accepted for his answer, Cooper explaed that those were two very different thgs that happened at very different ag. ” “I’m not sure I knew the word ‘gay’ at the time, but I realized somethg was up, somethg was different. But ultimately, he said he “stggled” wh as a disvered there were thgs he simply uldn’t do, like jo the ary at a time when homosexualy was nsired grounds for discharge or travel abroad to areas where remaed illegal and often dangero to be gay.
INTRODUCG COOPER GAY
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“I thk I really, tly accepted — and jt kd of, really not jt accepted but fully embraced and me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay — would probably be right after llege, " the now-53-year-old said, addg that was “about a year after llege (when) I realized, 'I don't want to waste any more time worryg about this' and sort of wishg I was some other way.
"I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, ” he ntued.
“When I was 12 years old and I 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 told People magaze shortly after Wyatt’s birth.
COOPER GAY
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.
Cooper shared that he stggled to e to terms wh beg gay bee of limatns he and others faced the late 80s.
ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY
Anrson thought about jog the ary, but 1982, the US Army clared homosexualy to be “patible wh ary service.
ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD
” Anrson wanted to travel, but beg gay was illegal some untri. “I thk beg gay is one of the blsgs of my life.