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- GAY CNN ANCHOR: MY WORK IS BETTER SCE COMG OUT
- CNN ANCHOR ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE FIRST REALISED HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS
GAY CNN ANCHOR: MY WORK IS BETTER SCE COMG OUT
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world. Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn.
What percentage of CNN's anchors are gay?
Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist. The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn.
CNN ANCHOR ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE FIRST REALISED HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS
In the two months sce CNN anchor Richard Qut nfirmed to viewers that he is gay, his work as a bs reporter has improved, Qut told a group of LGBT media profsnals Thursday at the annual Natnal Gay and Lbian Journalist's Associatn gatherg Chigo. "I cid was time to e out, " Qut told the crowd of the moment late June when he announced he is gay while reportg on a story about the impact of beg out at work. Qut said his worst fears -- that he would lose credibily wh viewers or the rpect of his lleagu -- "never materialized, " acrdg to Gay Star News.
Acrdg to Gay Star News, he admted to havg meth on his person, jokgly askg the dience how many people were wag for such nfirmatn. "The 52-year-old anchor says he is now que nfint as an openly gay newsman, but he acknowledged that wasn't always the se -- pecially when he began workg for the BBC his 20s.
"I was terrified about people knowg I was gay, " he said, acrdg to Gay Star News. He worried that producers and meramen might refe to share a hotel room wh an openly gay lleague: "I'd crge si at the ia that they'd be talkg behd my back, " he that he's out, however, Qut told his fellow reporters that his sexualy is a non-issue that won't stop him om verg stori plac wh vic antigay laws. Durg her five years as host, she reported on several lorful and thought-provokg stori cludg poverty oil-rich Bahra; everyday stggl for artists livg Iraq; and gay life the Middle East, which was a first on ternatnal televisn and earned a nomatn for a Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) award.