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 SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY
• ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD
• CNN PRENTER ANRSON COOPER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER SAYS SEEG A YOUNG RICHARD GERE SHIRTLS HELPED HIM REALIZE HE'S GAY: 'HE WAS SO BETIFUL'
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS HOW RICHARD GERE HELPED HIM REALIZE HE'S GAY: 'I COULDN'T SPEAK'
• 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 SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'

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 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.

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

"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The ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011.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.

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

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

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. "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.

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

"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 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.

“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.

ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD

"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.

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 lled the openg scene, which a man gets out of bed pletely naked and puts on a uniform, "the gayt thg you n image.

CNN PRENTER ANRSON COOPER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

""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. 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.

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

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

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.

ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY

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 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. “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.