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 SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY
• 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
• TTHS ABOUT ANRSON COOPER’S GAY PARTNER AND FAY
• CNN PRENTER ANRSON COOPER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER: AS A GAY MAN, FATHERHOOD IS 'A DREAM E TE'
• ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD
• 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: ‘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 SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY

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.

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

Anrson Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he was gay Friday on "Rad Andy.

ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — 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. Richard Gere starred the play about the persecutn of homosexualy Nazi Germany. It was jt me and my mom's two gay iends, " he 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 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. "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.

TTHS ABOUT ANRSON COOPER’S GAY PARTNER AND FAY

"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.

CNN PRENTER ANRSON COOPER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

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

"I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, " Cooper add on "Full Circle. 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.

ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD

" 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!

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

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.

(The stencil over the DJ booth offers "Free Motache Ris" and one outsi once read "One Gay at a Time, Sweet J. 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 SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY

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.