CNN anchor Anrson Cooper on when he realized he was gay

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• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT STRIK ALS WH OPENAI FOR THIS NEXT EM, I TURN OVER TO MY POYNTER LLEAGUE ANNIE AGUIAR. A $5 LN PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT AND OPENAI, THE ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE REARCH AND VELOPMENT PANY BEHD CHATGPT, WILL EXPLORE WAYS AI N SUPPORT LOL NEWS, A SIGN OF THE NEWS MEDIA STAKG A CLAIM THE RAPIDLY EXPANDG FIELD OF GENERATIVE AI. OPENAI WILL GIVE $5 LN TO AJP, THE VENTURE PHILANTHROPIC ANIZATN THAT PROVIS FUNDG TO LOL NEWS IATIV LIKE HOTON LANDG, CAPAL B, THE MARSHALL PROJECT AND OTHER LOL NONPROF SHOPS, ADDN TO $5 LN OPENAI API CREDS (SENTIALLY, A FEE FOR EACH TIME A PROJECT SENDS A REQUT TO OPENAI’S LARGER SYSTEM) TO BE ED BY AJP AND S PORTFOL ANIZATNS.  OTHER PLANS OM AJP AND S LOL NEWS ANIZATNS CLU: CREATG A TECHNOLOGY AND AI STUD TO ASSS APPLYG AI WH LOL NEWS, GIVG ANIZATNS ACHG ON HOW TO E TOOLS, AND WORK WH OPENAI AND OTHER AI VENDORS TO SUPPORT JOURNALISM AND PREVENT THE SPREAD OF MISRMATN DISTRIBUTG GRANTS DIRECTLY TO 10 OF S ANIZATNS TO EXPLORE AI APPLITNS “IN THE EARLY DAYS OF GENERATIVE AI, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNY TO ENSURE THAT LOL NEWS ANIZATNS, AND THEIR MUNI, ARE VOLVED SHAPG S IMPLITNS,” SAID SARABETH BERMAN, CEO OF THE AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT, A PRS RELEASE ANNOUNCG THE AL. “WH THIS PARTNERSHIP, WE AIM TO PROMOTE WAYS FOR AI TO ENHANCE — RATHER THAN IMPERIL — JOURNALISM.” THIS ISN’T OPENAI’S FIRST FORAY TO LLABORATG WH THE PRS, AS LAST WEEK THE PANY STCK A AL WH THE ASSOCIATED PRS TO E THE AP’S TEXT ARCHIVE TO TRA S AI ALGORHMS. IN RETURN, THE AP WOULD GET PUT ON S OWN AI WORK OM OPENAI. (YOU N READ MORE ABOUT THE AL OM AXS.) THE AP HAS ED AI SCE AT LEAST 2014, WHEN STARTED EXPERIMENTG WH TOMATG EARNGS REPORTS. HISTORY SHOWS THAT JOURNALISTS AND NEWS NSUMERS SHOULD BE WARY OF ANY NEWS ANIZATN GETTG TO A MULTILN-DOLLAR BS PARTNERSHIP WH A PANY POISED TO BE A MAJOR NEWSMAKER YEARS TO E. HANDLED RIGHT, HOWEVER, THE TYP OF PARTNERSHIPS N PROVI MOLS FOR AI-DRIVEN SOLUTNS AT THE LOL LEVEL. ON A NATNAL SLE, AI IS AN EMERGG AREA OF FOC FOR BIG PUBLITNS LIKE THE WASHGTON POST, AND LOL-CENTERED AI SOLUTNS ULD HELP PREVENT A WING NOVATN GAP BETWEEN NATNAL AND LOL. BUT FLAWED AG OF AI FOR DIGAL NEWS NTENT HAVE GARNERED ANGER OM NEWS STAFF RECENT WEEKS. ANY IMPLEMENTATN OF THIS TECHNOLOGY A LOL NEWS ENVIRONMENT WHOUT REFUL NSIRATN ULD STAND TO EVEN FURTHER STABILIZE AN ALREADY SHAKY ESYSTEM, AND ’S EASY TO SEE REPEATED FACTUAL ERRORS ON A LOL LEVEL PILG UP TO ERO TST EVEN MORE. IT’S ALSO EASY TO SEE TOOLS VELOPED OM THE PARTNERSHIPS BEG ED BY SCPULO DIGAL NEWS PUBLISHERS TO MIMIZE PAYROLL STS AND SPREAD MISRMATN OUTSI OF THE PURVIEW OF AJP AND THE AP’S ETHIL GUIL. BUT POTENTIAL PFALLS N ONLY DO SO MUCH TO STOP THE EVABLE MARCH OF THE KD OF NOVATN BEG PHED AS HARD AS AI. FROM OPENAI’S PERSPECTIVE, PARTNERSHIPS WH NEWS ANIZATNS MAKE SENSE, BUT UNANSWERED QUTNS ABOUT AI JOURNALISM ST A SHADOW OVER THE ENTERPRISE. THE PARTNERSHIPS N BE READ AS AN IMPLIC PROMISE: WE ARE NOT TRYG TO TAKE YOUR JOB WH THE TECHNOLOGI, BUT MAKE THEM BETTER. THE TECHNOLOGY’S HERE ANYWAY. WHILE A LOT OF THE TALK AROUND GENERATIVE AI IS NJECTURE, WE KNOW AT LEAST ONE THG IS TE: THERE’S NO STOPPG THIS TRA. IT’S A SAVVY MOVE FOR AJP AND THE AP TO HOP ABOARD AND SEE WHERE GO, BUT A SRY ONE WHEN TO HANGG ON. CALL OF THE DAY FOX NEWS’ JSE WATTERS ON THE SET OF HIS BUT SHOW MONDAY NIGHT. (CHARL SYK/INVISN/AP) DID FOX NEWS HIRE THE RIGHT WATTERS TO REPLACE TUCKER CARLSON PRIME TIME? JSE WATTERS MA HIS BUT ON MONDAY, BUT ONE OF HIS GUTS STOLE THE SHOW: HIS MOM. WATTERS FISHED UP HIS GURAL SHOW BY TAKG A PHONE LL OM HIS MOTHER, ANNE, WHO IS A DEMOCRAT. SHE HAD PLENTY OF ADVICE FOR HOW HER SON SHOULD HOST HIS SHOW. AFTER PRAISG HIM FOR HIS HARD WORK AND HOW PROUD SHE IS OF HIM, SHE SAID, “DO NOT TUMBLE TO ANY NSPIRACY RABB HOL. WE DO NOT WANT TO LOSE YOU AND WE WANT NO LAWSUS.” THAT SEEMED LIKE A VEILED SHOT AT CARLSON, WHO LOST HIS JOB NOT LONG AFTER FOX NEWS PAID DOMN VOTG SYSTEMS $787.5 LN TO SETTLE A FAMATN LAWSU. MOM THEN SAID, “IN KEEPG WH THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH, DO NO HARM. WE NEED YOU TO BE KD AND RPECTFUL. USE YOUR VOICE RPONSIBLY TO PROMOTE NVERSATN THAT MATAS A NARRATIVE THREAD. THERE REALLY HAS BEEN ENOUGH BIN-BASHG AND THE LAPTOP IS OLD. PERHAPS YOU ULD SUGGT THAT YOUR PEOPLE TAKE LS TERT, FOR EXAMPLE, OTHER PEOPLE’S BODI AND TALK ABOUT THAT.” SHE ALSO TALKED ABOUT TMP, TELLG WATTERS, “YOU ULD ENURAGE THAT BEDMSTER IEND OF YOURS TO RETURN TO HIS EARLIER REER ON TELEVISN. EVERYONE HIS DIENCE ULD WEAR A RED HAT AND I’M SURE THE RATGS WOULD SOAR, ALTHOUGH NEVER AS HIGH, MY DARLG, AS YOURS.” CAN WE GET HER ON EVERY NIGHT? HOW MANY WATCHED? BY THE WAY, WATTERS’ BUT SHOW AVERAGED 2.4 LN VIEWERS. THAT’S NEARLY A LN FEWER THAN CARLSON’S FAL SHOW, WHICH AVERAGED 3.2 LN VIEWERS. AS MEDIA REPORTER BRIAN STELTER NOTED, WATTERS’ NUMBERS WERE NIGHT ONE AND AFTER “HEAVY PROMOTN.” MEDIA TIDBS MARGARET SULLIVAN’S LATT MEDIA LUMN FOR THE GUARDIAN US: “I TOOK RFK JR’S PHONE LL LONG AGO. NOW I REGRET .” THE ATLANTIC HAS HIRED MICHAEL POWELL, WHO HAS BEEN AT THE NEW YORK TIM SCE 2007. AT THE TIM, POWELL HAS BEEN A NATNAL REPORTER VERG ISSU AROUND EE SPEECH. IN THE PAST, POWELL WROTE THE “GOTHAM” LUMN FOR THE METRO SECTN AND WROTE THE “SPORTS OF THE TIM” LUMN. HE WORKED AT THE WASHGTON POST BEFORE JOG THE TIM. THE ATLANTIC ALSO HIRED ZOë SCHLANGER TO VER ISSU OF CLIMATE, WHICH WILL CLU A NEWSLETTER LLED “THE WEEKLY PLA.” SCHLANGER HAS BEEN A STAFFER AT NEWSWEEK AND QUARTZ, AND ALSO HAS BEEN A NTRIBUTOR TO, AMONG OTHER OUTLETS, THE ATLANTIC AND THE NEW YORK TIM. THE TEXAS TRIBUNE’S WILLIAM MELHADO AND ALEJANDRO SERRANO WH “TEXAS A&M TERIM AN RIGNS AFTER UNIVERSY BACKTRACKS ON HIRG PROFSOR TO REVIVE JOURNALISM PROGRAM.” AXS’ SARA FISCHER AND KERRY FLYNN WH “VOX MEDIA DROPS S OWN CMS.” AUD OM NPR’S “POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR” AS LDA HOLM, ERIC DEGGANS, MIKE KATZIF AND JSI REEDY BREAK DOWN THE HOLLYWOOD ACTORS AND WRERS STRIKE. LIZ KRTZ IS JOG NBC NEWS AS A RRPONNT BASED LOS ANGEL. SHE WILL VER ALL NEWS THE WTERN REGN FOR ALL NBC NEWS PLATFORMS, CLUDG MSNBC. KRTZ JOS NBC OM ABC7 SAN FRANCIS WHERE SHE WAS AN ANCHOR AND REPORTER. BEFORE THAT, SHE WAS AN EVENG ANCHOR AND REPORTER SACRAMENTO AT ABC AFFILIATE KXTV. HOT TYPE THIS PIECE IS LONG, BUT WELL WORTH . SIMPLY OUTSTANDG OM THE NEW YORKER’S EY NSBM: “COUNTRY MIC’S CULTURE WARS AND THE REMAKG OF NASHVILLE.” CATCHG UP ON THIS EXCELLENT JIM AXELROD PIECE OM LAST WEEKEND’S “CBS SUNDAY MORNG”: “KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: ‘THERE ARE TIM WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ANY CHOICE BUT TO SPEAK THE TTH.’” WALL STREET JOURNAL SPORTS LUMNIST JASON GAY WH “I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW GOOD THIS TOUR FRANCE IS.” MORE ROURC FOR JOURNALISTS
• PHIL MATTGLY GAY, AGE, CNN CAREER, WIKI, B, IS HE MARRIED?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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

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.

AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT STRIK ALS WH OPENAI FOR THIS NEXT EM, I TURN OVER TO MY POYNTER LLEAGUE ANNIE AGUIAR. A $5 LN PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT AND OPENAI, THE ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE REARCH AND VELOPMENT PANY BEHD CHATGPT, WILL EXPLORE WAYS AI N SUPPORT LOL NEWS, A SIGN OF THE NEWS MEDIA STAKG A CLAIM THE RAPIDLY EXPANDG FIELD OF GENERATIVE AI. OPENAI WILL GIVE $5 LN TO AJP, THE VENTURE PHILANTHROPIC ANIZATN THAT PROVIS FUNDG TO LOL NEWS IATIV LIKE HOTON LANDG, CAPAL B, THE MARSHALL PROJECT AND OTHER LOL NONPROF SHOPS, ADDN TO $5 LN OPENAI API CREDS (SENTIALLY, A FEE FOR EACH TIME A PROJECT SENDS A REQUT TO OPENAI’S LARGER SYSTEM) TO BE ED BY AJP AND S PORTFOL ANIZATNS.  OTHER PLANS OM AJP AND S LOL NEWS ANIZATNS CLU: CREATG A TECHNOLOGY AND AI STUD TO ASSS APPLYG AI WH LOL NEWS, GIVG ANIZATNS ACHG ON HOW TO E TOOLS, AND WORK WH OPENAI AND OTHER AI VENDORS TO SUPPORT JOURNALISM AND PREVENT THE SPREAD OF MISRMATN DISTRIBUTG GRANTS DIRECTLY TO 10 OF S ANIZATNS TO EXPLORE AI APPLITNS “IN THE EARLY DAYS OF GENERATIVE AI, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNY TO ENSURE THAT LOL NEWS ANIZATNS, AND THEIR MUNI, ARE VOLVED SHAPG S IMPLITNS,” SAID SARABETH BERMAN, CEO OF THE AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT, A PRS RELEASE ANNOUNCG THE AL. “WH THIS PARTNERSHIP, WE AIM TO PROMOTE WAYS FOR AI TO ENHANCE — RATHER THAN IMPERIL — JOURNALISM.” THIS ISN’T OPENAI’S FIRST FORAY TO LLABORATG WH THE PRS, AS LAST WEEK THE PANY STCK A AL WH THE ASSOCIATED PRS TO E THE AP’S TEXT ARCHIVE TO TRA S AI ALGORHMS. IN RETURN, THE AP WOULD GET PUT ON S OWN AI WORK OM OPENAI. (YOU N READ MORE ABOUT THE AL OM AXS.) THE AP HAS ED AI SCE AT LEAST 2014, WHEN STARTED EXPERIMENTG WH TOMATG EARNGS REPORTS. HISTORY SHOWS THAT JOURNALISTS AND NEWS NSUMERS SHOULD BE WARY OF ANY NEWS ANIZATN GETTG TO A MULTILN-DOLLAR BS PARTNERSHIP WH A PANY POISED TO BE A MAJOR NEWSMAKER YEARS TO E. HANDLED RIGHT, HOWEVER, THE TYP OF PARTNERSHIPS N PROVI MOLS FOR AI-DRIVEN SOLUTNS AT THE LOL LEVEL. ON A NATNAL SLE, AI IS AN EMERGG AREA OF FOC FOR BIG PUBLITNS LIKE THE WASHGTON POST, AND LOL-CENTERED AI SOLUTNS ULD HELP PREVENT A WING NOVATN GAP BETWEEN NATNAL AND LOL. BUT FLAWED AG OF AI FOR DIGAL NEWS NTENT HAVE GARNERED ANGER OM NEWS STAFF RECENT WEEKS. ANY IMPLEMENTATN OF THIS TECHNOLOGY A LOL NEWS ENVIRONMENT WHOUT REFUL NSIRATN ULD STAND TO EVEN FURTHER STABILIZE AN ALREADY SHAKY ESYSTEM, AND ’S EASY TO SEE REPEATED FACTUAL ERRORS ON A LOL LEVEL PILG UP TO ERO TST EVEN MORE. IT’S ALSO EASY TO SEE TOOLS VELOPED OM THE PARTNERSHIPS BEG ED BY SCPULO DIGAL NEWS PUBLISHERS TO MIMIZE PAYROLL STS AND SPREAD MISRMATN OUTSI OF THE PURVIEW OF AJP AND THE AP’S ETHIL GUIL. BUT POTENTIAL PFALLS N ONLY DO SO MUCH TO STOP THE EVABLE MARCH OF THE KD OF NOVATN BEG PHED AS HARD AS AI. FROM OPENAI’S PERSPECTIVE, PARTNERSHIPS WH NEWS ANIZATNS MAKE SENSE, BUT UNANSWERED QUTNS ABOUT AI JOURNALISM ST A SHADOW OVER THE ENTERPRISE. THE PARTNERSHIPS N BE READ AS AN IMPLIC PROMISE: WE ARE NOT TRYG TO TAKE YOUR JOB WH THE TECHNOLOGI, BUT MAKE THEM BETTER. THE TECHNOLOGY’S HERE ANYWAY. WHILE A LOT OF THE TALK AROUND GENERATIVE AI IS NJECTURE, WE KNOW AT LEAST ONE THG IS TE: THERE’S NO STOPPG THIS TRA. IT’S A SAVVY MOVE FOR AJP AND THE AP TO HOP ABOARD AND SEE WHERE GO, BUT A SRY ONE WHEN TO HANGG ON. CALL OF THE DAY FOX NEWS’ JSE WATTERS ON THE SET OF HIS BUT SHOW MONDAY NIGHT. (CHARL SYK/INVISN/AP) DID FOX NEWS HIRE THE RIGHT WATTERS TO REPLACE TUCKER CARLSON PRIME TIME? JSE WATTERS MA HIS BUT ON MONDAY, BUT ONE OF HIS GUTS STOLE THE SHOW: HIS MOM. WATTERS FISHED UP HIS GURAL SHOW BY TAKG A PHONE LL OM HIS MOTHER, ANNE, WHO IS A DEMOCRAT. SHE HAD PLENTY OF ADVICE FOR HOW HER SON SHOULD HOST HIS SHOW. AFTER PRAISG HIM FOR HIS HARD WORK AND HOW PROUD SHE IS OF HIM, SHE SAID, “DO NOT TUMBLE TO ANY NSPIRACY RABB HOL. WE DO NOT WANT TO LOSE YOU AND WE WANT NO LAWSUS.” THAT SEEMED LIKE A VEILED SHOT AT CARLSON, WHO LOST HIS JOB NOT LONG AFTER FOX NEWS PAID DOMN VOTG SYSTEMS $787.5 LN TO SETTLE A FAMATN LAWSU. MOM THEN SAID, “IN KEEPG WH THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH, DO NO HARM. WE NEED YOU TO BE KD AND RPECTFUL. USE YOUR VOICE RPONSIBLY TO PROMOTE NVERSATN THAT MATAS A NARRATIVE THREAD. THERE REALLY HAS BEEN ENOUGH BIN-BASHG AND THE LAPTOP IS OLD. PERHAPS YOU ULD SUGGT THAT YOUR PEOPLE TAKE LS TERT, FOR EXAMPLE, OTHER PEOPLE’S BODI AND TALK ABOUT THAT.” SHE ALSO TALKED ABOUT TMP, TELLG WATTERS, “YOU ULD ENURAGE THAT BEDMSTER IEND OF YOURS TO RETURN TO HIS EARLIER REER ON TELEVISN. EVERYONE HIS DIENCE ULD WEAR A RED HAT AND I’M SURE THE RATGS WOULD SOAR, ALTHOUGH NEVER AS HIGH, MY DARLG, AS YOURS.” CAN WE GET HER ON EVERY NIGHT? HOW MANY WATCHED? BY THE WAY, WATTERS’ BUT SHOW AVERAGED 2.4 LN VIEWERS. THAT’S NEARLY A LN FEWER THAN CARLSON’S FAL SHOW, WHICH AVERAGED 3.2 LN VIEWERS. AS MEDIA REPORTER BRIAN STELTER NOTED, WATTERS’ NUMBERS WERE NIGHT ONE AND AFTER “HEAVY PROMOTN.” MEDIA TIDBS MARGARET SULLIVAN’S LATT MEDIA LUMN FOR THE GUARDIAN US: “I TOOK RFK JR’S PHONE LL LONG AGO. NOW I REGRET .” THE ATLANTIC HAS HIRED MICHAEL POWELL, WHO HAS BEEN AT THE NEW YORK TIM SCE 2007. AT THE TIM, POWELL HAS BEEN A NATNAL REPORTER VERG ISSU AROUND EE SPEECH. IN THE PAST, POWELL WROTE THE “GOTHAM” LUMN FOR THE METRO SECTN AND WROTE THE “SPORTS OF THE TIM” LUMN. HE WORKED AT THE WASHGTON POST BEFORE JOG THE TIM. THE ATLANTIC ALSO HIRED ZOë SCHLANGER TO VER ISSU OF CLIMATE, WHICH WILL CLU A NEWSLETTER LLED “THE WEEKLY PLA.” SCHLANGER HAS BEEN A STAFFER AT NEWSWEEK AND QUARTZ, AND ALSO HAS BEEN A NTRIBUTOR TO, AMONG OTHER OUTLETS, THE ATLANTIC AND THE NEW YORK TIM. THE TEXAS TRIBUNE’S WILLIAM MELHADO AND ALEJANDRO SERRANO WH “TEXAS A&M TERIM AN RIGNS AFTER UNIVERSY BACKTRACKS ON HIRG PROFSOR TO REVIVE JOURNALISM PROGRAM.” AXS’ SARA FISCHER AND KERRY FLYNN WH “VOX MEDIA DROPS S OWN CMS.” AUD OM NPR’S “POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR” AS LDA HOLM, ERIC DEGGANS, MIKE KATZIF AND JSI REEDY BREAK DOWN THE HOLLYWOOD ACTORS AND WRERS STRIKE. LIZ KRTZ IS JOG NBC NEWS AS A RRPONNT BASED LOS ANGEL. SHE WILL VER ALL NEWS THE WTERN REGN FOR ALL NBC NEWS PLATFORMS, CLUDG MSNBC. KRTZ JOS NBC OM ABC7 SAN FRANCIS WHERE SHE WAS AN ANCHOR AND REPORTER. BEFORE THAT, SHE WAS AN EVENG ANCHOR AND REPORTER SACRAMENTO AT ABC AFFILIATE KXTV. HOT TYPE THIS PIECE IS LONG, BUT WELL WORTH . SIMPLY OUTSTANDG OM THE NEW YORKER’S EY NSBM: “COUNTRY MIC’S CULTURE WARS AND THE REMAKG OF NASHVILLE.” CATCHG UP ON THIS EXCELLENT JIM AXELROD PIECE OM LAST WEEKEND’S “CBS SUNDAY MORNG”: “KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: ‘THERE ARE TIM WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ANY CHOICE BUT TO SPEAK THE TTH.’” WALL STREET JOURNAL SPORTS LUMNIST JASON GAY WH “I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW GOOD THIS TOUR FRANCE IS.” MORE ROURC FOR JOURNALISTS

"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.

"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.

PHIL MATTGLY GAY, AGE, CNN CAREER, WIKI, B, IS HE MARRIED?

"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.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.