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

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• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY
• TTHS ABOUT ANRSON COOPER’S GAY PARTNER AND FAY
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER WIKI, MARRIED, HBAND, GAY, PARTNER AND NET WORTH
• ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’
• IS ANRSON COOPER MARRIED? HIS B, AGE, GAY, BOYIEND AND RELATNSHIP
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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 COOPER IS A GRATEFUL NEW DAD: ‘AS A GAY KID, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE’

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

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.

"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. "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 SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT 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.

TTHS ABOUT ANRSON COOPER’S GAY PARTNER AND 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.

The multi-Emmy and Peabody Award-wng journalist me out as gay 2012, followg a growg trend of normalizg g out of the closet, and subsequently also revealed some tails about his personal life. Their relatnship, however, was kept unr wraps for a long time and was revealed years later, after Cooper me out as beg gay. 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.

ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS 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 WIKI, MARRIED, HBAND, GAY, PARTNER AND NET WORTH

"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.

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.

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

Anrson Cooper and his ex Benjam Maisani (Image Source)Anrson Cooper is openly gay and has been scribed as the most proment gay journalist Ameri. The French native is the owner of three gay clubs New York.

He had origally moved to the Uned Stat to study filmmakg but has sce abandoned those dreams to ter to the nightlife needs of gay people after workg as a bartenr for many years.

IS ANRSON COOPER MARRIED? HIS B, AGE, GAY, BOYIEND AND RELATNSHIP

Who is Anrson Cooper’s Most Recent Gay Partner?

He had a close relatnship wh his mother, Gloria, who was a fashn signer and an artist, before her passg 2019, and he logized her on was spired to learn more about his plited fay history after his mother’s passg and his first child’s birth—he even thored the 2021 book Vanrbilt, wh Kathere has two adorable sons named Wyatt and Sebastian“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, and for the doctors and nurs and everyone volved my son’s birth, ” he shared an Instagram post after Wyatt’s birth. 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, and for the doctors and nurs and everyone volved my son's birth. 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.

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

"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. "As a gay kid, I never thought would be possible to have a child, " Cooper told the world, but he is now a proud parent to Wyatt Man Cooper. Anrson Cooper Married To Wife Or Gay?

77 meters) is openly a gay, so there is no qutn of him havg a wife or girliend or any divorce or children. Cooper and his boyiend Benjam Maisani who is the owner of a gay bar have been datg sce nsired to e out to the public about him when same-sex marriage beme legal  New York July 2011.